11 Common Places That Always Inspire Creativity
You’re less critical of yourself, less discerning about what you’re writing down, and you can therefore just let the ideas flow.
You’re less critical of yourself, less discerning about what you’re writing down, and you can therefore just let the ideas flow.
To be content like this is to have a Moment. But perhaps these Moments are merely dreams. This must be a dream, I thought.
The thing is though is that I’m 25, and I have enough money to buy any piece of Ikea furniture I want or any of the sweet gaming chairs that vibrate all crazy when you get shot and I can even order pizza — hell, three pizzas — whenever I feel like it because I’m absolutely killing it every day.
Now the male bond has its fair share of flirtatiousness too, but it’s the kind of flirtatiousness that doesn’t presage to sex. It’s more of a competitive spirit that would seem to divide, but with close male friends, instead binds together.
Apple CEO Tim Cook gets up at 4:30 a.m., Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is at the office by 6 a.m., even Ben Franklin was up at 5 a.m. famously waking up and asking himself each morning, “What good shall I do this day?”
What they’d done was created the myth of Paris, of an aristocratic, elegant, otherworldly paradise, a false ideal Americans have sought after ever since.
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony; then from matrimony to that sticky, glowing night culminating in pleasure.
When we idealize poverty, we confound simplicity with happiness, and that is both naïve and, more often than not, quite offensive.
Keeping those expectations measured. Well done, old sport.
The world has continued to spin, but it feels as though it has changed directions and begun to move backwards.