A review by allisonplus
The Big Thing: How to Complete Your Creative Project Even if You're a Lazy, Self-Doubting Procrastinator Like Me by Phyllis Korkki
3.0
"The mind craves the long arc that a book provides."
"I have long berated myself for being lazy when it comes to my personal aspirations. I consider myself possessed of 'a fine natural indolence,' as Virginia Woolf describes the heroine in The Voyage Out"
"The moment when you heave yourself over from inactivity to activity is the hardest to endure."
"To do is to undo. And to do is to not do."
"Efficiency can also mean recognizing the importance of taking a break, having a drink, talking with friends, thinking, or napping."
"Mental and physical illnesses are characterized by tension and lack of ease. Most of life, really, is lack of ease. If we did not feel uneasy, we could not move forward."
"How do you create a deadline for a creative project when nobody but you really cares whether you finish it? One answer: find other people who are doing the same thing and join some system of accountability for that."
"I have long berated myself for being lazy when it comes to my personal aspirations. I consider myself possessed of 'a fine natural indolence,' as Virginia Woolf describes the heroine in The Voyage Out"
"The moment when you heave yourself over from inactivity to activity is the hardest to endure."
"To do is to undo. And to do is to not do."
"Efficiency can also mean recognizing the importance of taking a break, having a drink, talking with friends, thinking, or napping."
"Mental and physical illnesses are characterized by tension and lack of ease. Most of life, really, is lack of ease. If we did not feel uneasy, we could not move forward."
"How do you create a deadline for a creative project when nobody but you really cares whether you finish it? One answer: find other people who are doing the same thing and join some system of accountability for that."