I'm simply going to riff on some themes that are coming out of this. If you are unfamiliar with what this is you can get the backstory here: I'm not going to delve into the history here. I must have been living under a rock for the past month because this just crossed my desk yesterday. Point: don't do drugs if you're not Carl Sagan. When I lose that then creativity leaves me. My particular process requires disciple and control. Would I be a better author if I blazed? Perhaps. I've never needed chemicals to influence that. My inspiration comes from the complex dichotomy of suffering and hope. I know a little bit about creativity and my IQ score really does settle the genius question. Professionally I've written over 1.8 million words that I have been paid for. It could be, however, that he would have come up with these ideas independently while eating a cheeseburger. Perhaps these were the only combination of factors that would produce those results. The combination of shower, sex, and marijuana somehow collided with all of his prior experiences and learning to produce something special. The characteristic of brilliant inspiration that is common to all great discovery is not the method by which that inspiration is derived but in the genius of the individual inspired. In fact, statistically speaking it's likely that drug use stifles universal creativity in the population. Tour a homeless shelter and search for the Grand Unifying Theory and it's pretty likely you won't find it. The logical fallacy that he presents is that drugs = creativity. There are many examples of very brilliant people doing some incredible creative work under the influence of powerful chemicals. The logical extension that Ozzy was making is that getting high is a source of inspiration. Have used them in university commencement addresses, public lectures, Reactions and expert commentary, they seem to contain valid insights. Because of problems of space, I can’t go into theĭetails of these essays, but from all external signs, such as public One idea led to another, and at the end ofĪbout an hour of extremely hard work I found I had written eleven shortĮssays on a wide range of social, political, philosophical, and humanīiological topics. I drew the curves in soap on the shower wall, and Which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms I can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in I write this to encourage you - set your mind on things that are excellent and good. And drama? I save it for the forums because that's how we roll. (I'm just kidding - write me into whatever fantasy you want). And if they are - they're probably fantasizing about me - and as long as that doesn't end up in some weird WickedFrost fanfic I'm probably okay with that. I reclaimed that 30 minutes a day by not worrying about what other people were thinking about me - because they probably aren't thinking about me. There are, of course, times in your life when you think that you are more visible than others - but even then - chances are that you are barely on the thought spectrum of other people. In fact, unless you are there or fresh in their mind people aren't thinking about you at all. People aren't really talking behind your back. I was worried about acceptance, or about a mistake, or about love, or about rejection.Īt the end of it all I came to this conclusion: nobody's out to get you. The rest of the time I was thinking about what they were thinking about me. About 22 percent of the time I was thinking about their clothing/appearance/fantasizing. About 12% of the time I was thinking about something (just over three minutes) that somebody else was doing. Did the calculations and it was pretty consistent: 38 minutes a day. I included, for the purpose of calculation, times when I was with someone else and we were talking about a third person. I would click it when I was thinking about someone else, what they were doing, or something they'd done. I spent a month with a stopwatch in my pocket. How many minutes a day do you think about other people when you are not with them? Do the math: how many minutes a day do you think about other people? Not other people in general but other people specifically? Separate it out from when you are actually in direct contact with them or creeping their facebook.
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