“The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch in Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
via Austin Kleon
Retire
“…for me retirement didn't mean that I stopped writing. It just meant that maybe I stopped writing when people expect me to write.”
“…retirement has meant that I don't obsess over becoming more rich or famous or more viewed or whatever. Instead, I try to focus my definition of work on passion and impact…”
I’m fascinated at the parallels here with my own recent reframe. I never experienced the amount of success that John Green has, but that pressure to always keep growing is so built into society it takes continuous effort to make another choice.