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Comedy is about failure, not success. Watching everything go right for someone isn’t funny. What’s funny is the presumption that everything could go right for someone. If it looks like everything’s going right, that’s because you’re not looking closely enough. Comedy is what breaks out when you do.
All Made Up | the Point Magazine
David Egan
Everyone knows everyone else’s backhand, or, if they don’t, it is commonplace to inquire. Working on your backhand might mean, for someone who is on the arrogant side, trying to wait until the forty-five-minute mark to make a first comment in an hour long meeting. In contrast, someone on the insecure side, in that same meeting, might work on offering a contribution in the first fifteen minutes. Either move represents working on one’s backhand—practicing to overcome a deep-seated mind-set.
An Everyone Culture
Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey
Artists often have no idea what they're going to create.
They make art in order to know what they are planning.
Buchman quotes Picasso: "To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing." Elizabeth Bishop discovered what she wanted to say in the process of saying it.
So it is with life.
Wild Problems
Russ Roberts
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