Visakan Veerasamy

outlines of essays or drafts or something like so you can if you can like the saddest thing I see from time to time is like an author who spent or like a startup founder or an author who spends several years of their life and a lot of their money and their resources and whatever working on a project that they had like this kind of white whale idea like oh when my novel is done everyone's going to love it it's going to be amazing

outlines of essays or drafts or something like so you can if you can like the saddest thing I see from time to time is like an author who spent or like a startup founder or an author who spends several years of their life and a lot of their money and their resources and whatever working on a project that they had like this kind of white whale idea like oh when my novel is done everyone's going to love it it's going to be amazing

outlines of essays or drafts or something like so you can if you can like the saddest thing I see from time to time is like an author who spent or like a startup founder or an author who spends several years of their life and a lot of their money and their resources and whatever working on a project that they had like this kind of white whale idea like oh when my novel is done everyone's going to love it it's going to be amazing

yeah and then you do this really big thing and then you talk to people about it for the first time and they're not interested and then that's just so depressing and so disheartening whereas what you want to do and this is part of like being cheerful and whatever you want to do little sketches little outlines little drafts and then share them with people and then like see how they respond and if you just talk to people every couple of days even just a regular conversation

yeah and then you do this really big thing and then you talk to people about it for the first time and they're not interested and then that's just so depressing and so disheartening whereas what you want to do and this is part of like being cheerful and whatever you want to do little sketches little outlines little drafts and then share them with people and then like see how they respond and if you just talk to people every couple of days even just a regular conversation

yeah and then you do this really big thing and then you talk to people about it for the first time and they're not interested and then that's just so depressing and so disheartening whereas what you want to do and this is part of like being cheerful and whatever you want to do little sketches little outlines little drafts and then share them with people and then like see how they respond and if you just talk to people every couple of days even just a regular conversation

you may notice at some point you make someone laugh or at some point their eyes light up. And those are the moments that you want to collect and pay attention to. And you do more of that.

you may notice at some point you make someone laugh or at some point their eyes light up. And those are the moments that you want to collect and pay attention to. And you do more of that.

you may notice at some point you make someone laugh or at some point their eyes light up. And those are the moments that you want to collect and pay attention to. And you do more of that.

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You know, it's a... When I write, you know, when I hear this, right, it doesn't feel like me. You know, I can recognize that it's me, but it's my... It's kind of a peak state me or like when I'm in the middle of a thing, right? It's a... Day to day, I don't feel like my best self or I don't feel like my best writer self, but like I got to keep...

You know, it's a... When I write, you know, when I hear this, right, it doesn't feel like me. You know, I can recognize that it's me, but it's my... It's kind of a peak state me or like when I'm in the middle of a thing, right? It's a... Day to day, I don't feel like my best self or I don't feel like my best writer self, but like I got to keep...

You know, it's a... When I write, you know, when I hear this, right, it doesn't feel like me. You know, I can recognize that it's me, but it's my... It's kind of a peak state me or like when I'm in the middle of a thing, right? It's a... Day to day, I don't feel like my best self or I don't feel like my best writer self, but like I got to keep...

doing stuff and then it just comes by in flow um elizabeth gilbert has a great tech talk about this where she talks about the the myth of the genius of the creative genius like in a sense where it's like she goes back to because she was a successful author of eat pray love and she described how when she was a struggling author people were like how are you gonna feel never making anything worthwhile like what if you're never gonna make it and then immediately after she made it

doing stuff and then it just comes by in flow um elizabeth gilbert has a great tech talk about this where she talks about the the myth of the genius of the creative genius like in a sense where it's like she goes back to because she was a successful author of eat pray love and she described how when she was a struggling author people were like how are you gonna feel never making anything worthwhile like what if you're never gonna make it and then immediately after she made it

doing stuff and then it just comes by in flow um elizabeth gilbert has a great tech talk about this where she talks about the the myth of the genius of the creative genius like in a sense where it's like she goes back to because she was a successful author of eat pray love and she described how when she was a struggling author people were like how are you gonna feel never making anything worthwhile like what if you're never gonna make it and then immediately after she made it

immediately people are like, oh, aren't you afraid you're never going to match up to that success? And she's like, what the fuck, man? So, yeah. And so she looked up the history of how people thought about these things. And I think in the Roman times or antiquity, people were like, okay, people get possessed by genius from time to time. So if you do good work, you don't get full credit.

immediately people are like, oh, aren't you afraid you're never going to match up to that success? And she's like, what the fuck, man? So, yeah. And so she looked up the history of how people thought about these things. And I think in the Roman times or antiquity, people were like, okay, people get possessed by genius from time to time. So if you do good work, you don't get full credit.