How to Make It as a Creatively Successful If Not Entirely Happy Person

Cannot not click through to any article that tells you how to be the best you based on other people who are the best them. This list from the Guardian of six ways to emulate history’s best creative minds, includes two especially attractive tips: “take lots of walks” and “practice strategic substance abuse.” Another tip is to have a day job. Which is interesting, since most creative people I know have one goal: To be able to quit their day job. They use Kafka as an example of it working out. His miserable insurance job? Actually gave him structure to write, the story goes.

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