2016-02-19
7 分钟Today we're talking about finishing when you already know where you're going to start again.
What in the world is that all about?
So, if you have listened recently, a little while back, I shared a podcast called serial creation about how I was changing my creative style.
And there's something I didn't talk about, even though I was talking about writing a book.
And it's something that I actually learned from Ernest Hemingway a long, long time ago.
No, I'm not that old, actually.
I didn't actually sit down and have lunch with Ernest, but it's something that she read.
And it was, I believe, in a Paris review interview of Hemingway quite a number of years back.
And they were talking to him about his writing process, and the question of sort of how he stops and how he ends and how he begins came up.
And this is a really big thing for a lot of creative professionals, because we're constantly.
I don't know if you've ever heard the term writer's block, but a lot of people will say it's such a struggle to get something onto the page, and it can be a canvas.
It can be paint.
It can be like the computer and can be writing.
It can be an entrepreneur who needs to come up with a new idea to test.
How do you get to that place, and how do you get blocked?
It's kind of interesting because, for me, I'm not a huge believer in blocks.
Maybe it's because I haven't experienced them in a meaningful way, but also, I haven't written fiction, which is, in my mind, massively more complicated and hard than nonfiction, which is where I tend to play.
So maybe it'll come up there.
But I have started a lot of things from absolute nothing, books, businesses, bodies of work, art.
And so I know that process.