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benlehman ([personal profile] benlehman) wrote2003-03-04 04:18 pm

distraction

Whenever I am required to focus, I feel that -- somehow -- I am just brimming with good ideas that I just do not have time to put down on paper. This is wrong. This is some sort of creativity chemical in my brain reacting to understimulation.

Why? Because good ideas provoke action. All other ideas are shitty.

This is related to the greatest moral I have learned from physics -- if you cannot tell it's there, it might as well not exist. "Like a knife, it cuts this from that." I imagine it is pretentious to quote yourself, so I can say that it is a paraphrase of Chuang Tzu.