Gap Year for Grown-Ups

Learning and creating, to me, are kind of two halves of the same thing. I think of those two, learning and creating, as kind of a cycle. I like to learn things for the sake of creating; I don't like to just learn for the sake of learning. And I like to create things that are a learning process in creating them.

Most of us don't change until we have to. Usually, something has to push us.

The news is changing between the morning and the evening ... What was true yesterday is false today and vice versa. Isn't that a perfect reason why we shouldn't follow it?

It's a wonderful thing to constantly ask yourself, 'Wait a minute, why am I doing this?'

I tend to focus on one thing at a time. I don't do very well with this idea of a schedule where you wake up and you do an hour of this and an hour of that ... I tend to get into one thing at a time for months at a time, sometimes even years at a time. I'll just do one thing until it feels complete.

The daily stock market is something that you should ignore. In fact, you should probably ignore the weekly and the monthly, too. The wisest investors are the ones that don't look at the daily ups and downs.

Honestly, right now, a lot of my best friends are people... who sent an email to a stranger years ago ... And vice versa, a couple other of my friends are people whose writing I loved so much that I sent them an email out of the blue.

For whatever reason, I've always had a tendency to throw myself completely into one thing at a time, and I've been like that since I was a kid.

As a writer, it's better for me to have a brilliant idea later instead of an average one now.