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I’m a huge advocate of writing in the morning. Science clearly shows that the brain is most readily creative immediately following sleep. Your subconscious never sleeps, and is always engaged in figuring out your problems and making key connections. As Thomas Edison said, “Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.”
How to Turn Journal Ramblings Into Viral Articles
Dr. Benjamin Hardy
The part you must jettison is not only the best-written part; it is also, oddly, that part which was to have been the very point. It is the original key passage, the passage on which the rest was to hang, and from which you yourself drew the courage to begin.
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
Something inside unclenches. It’s equivalent to that moment when, caught in a rainstorm without an umbrella, you finally abandon your futile efforts to stay dry, and accept getting soaked to the skin. Very well, then: this is how things are.
Meditations for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
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