Dan Becker

“But I wrote this book because I decline to accept the idea that a good day of writing was lucky, that I had no role in whether the Muse chose to visit on a given day. I have since learned that I have everything to do with whether I have a good day or a bad day of writing.”
― William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

“the world has an effectively infinite number of experiences to offer, so getting a handful of them under your belt brings you no closer to a sense of having feasted on life’s possibilities.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Our excessive focus in the modern world on the power of conscious thought and the benefits of willpower and self-control causes us to overlook the pervasive importance of what might be called “body thinking”: tacit, fast, and semiautomatic behavior that flows from the unconscious with little or no conscious interference. The result is that we too often devote ourselves to pushing harder or moving faster in areas of our life where effort and striving are, in fact, profoundly counterproductive. This is because the problem of choking or freezing up extends far beyond sports or artistic performance.”
― Edward Slingerland, Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity

“Yet even once I left that job and lived for a while without the need for that work, I did not feel free—at least not all the time. So I began looking at those moments I did feel free. I felt free while I was writing;”
― William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence