Tag: Thoughts
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Ghostwriting
I briefly considered ghostwriting. I needed to get a job and so far, life experience has shown me that I hate working for other people. The ass-kissing required to move up, the stress of disappointing someone you may not even respect, the lack of autonomy you have pertaining to your day-to-day schedule. I’ll come clean,…
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Theories in Writing
Ernest Becker wrote in his book, The Denial of Death, “… [I]n order to turn out a piece of work the author has to exaggerate the emphasis of it… and he gets carried away by his own exaggeration, as his distinctive image is built on it.” Basically, Becker is explaining that with every theory or piece…
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Are Our Attention Spans Shortening? (An Internet Mystery)
I was going to write a post about flakiness. I really was! I had been inspired by a segment in Eric Barker’s Barking Up The Wrong Tree and Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit and saw a connection between the two. In order to write my own thing, however, I needed to do some of my own research…
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