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As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

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Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

Dictates, Fashion, Gains, Life, Mastery
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Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

Order, Giving, Attention, Unless, Person

Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.

Encouragement, Creativity, Two, Belongs, Saving, Enjoying

Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.

Doe, Happen, Happens, Happiness, Make, Simply

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

Ideas, Intellectual, Intelligence, Consciousness, Percolate, Make

Find a way to express what moves you.

Moving, Expression, Way, Moves, Express
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