“Your best thought comes embedded in chunks of your worst thought. What’s the only way to reliably mine your best thought? Write a lot. Think”quantity.” Think “word production.” Think of yourself as a word and thought factory.”

Your best bits will come embedded in your worst bits.

Your best moments will be surrounded by your worst moments.

Your best self is embedded in your worst self.

Your heroism is inside of your cowardice. Your nobility is enrobed by your lazy-ass mediocrity. Your calm is inside of your chaos.

You just gotta keep going at it—do it no matter what—to get to that delicious caramel center.

Enlarge the canvas. Make more stuff, make more shitty stuff, and you’ll find some good stuff in the pile.

“If you truly want a result, don’t worship the conventional route that most people follow. That route was probably invented through trial and error, and if different trials and errors had been attempted, you’d have a different route to take today.”

If things aren’t working, you’re not doing anything wrong. You’re doing it (whatever it is) no matter what. And that’s just right.

When you get tired of yourself, then you change. See, even if you’re stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you’re stuck, then you will immediately recognize that you can’t go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you’re stuck, or how you’re alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.”

Clarity is a prerequisite for change.