Mysticism

I am doing two drafts for this post, one by hand and the other typed. I wanted to see which one produced a better product. So far typing is better, which is disappointing because, per science, more parts of the brain are activated when writing by hand.

I didn’t really know what to write today though. That is the crisis in the handwritten draft as well. It seems like reality intersects with me regardless of whether or not I want it to show up. I think about people who have creative crises. Fran Leibowitz’s never-ending writer’s block. Is that real?

Robert Greene’s Mastery is my compass in all of this. He argues for persistence, patience, and above all else a consistent investment of time and energy into the things we love. Patience though, seems key. There are many days ahead where my attempts to write will yield disappointing results. I’m an immigrant though, through and through, and with a Sisyphean persistence I’ll return, hungry for the fruit of another failure.