Austin Kleon

And so it's just really the act of... I think sometimes having a place to put the things that you pay attention to, it makes you pay more attention.

And so, as you mentioned with the newsletter, it's like...

Yeah, all week I'm like, that's newsletter worthy.

That goes in the note file.

Yeah, that's good.

The only problem is that you have to make sure that you're living your life and you're not living for the newsletter.

Yeah.

I heard this really sad interview with Mr. Beast one time.

I don't know if people listening know who Mr. Beast is.

I have tweens, so unfortunately I know who Mr. Beast is, the poor beast.

He's like this terrifically famous YouTuber, a young guy.

I don't even know how old he is, but...

I was listening to this interview with him and he's like, yeah, I don't really even know what's real in my life anymore.

Like what I do for the YouTube channel.

And I was like, this is this guy, his midlife crisis is going to be very interesting.

Hopefully he makes enough that he can afford the therapy.

But, you know, it's like there's a tension in life between, you know, living and writing.

And so you have to kind of be careful that you're

you're living not for the writing.

The writing's for the living and not the living's not for the writing, I guess.