Trust

Your ideas are very good ones / Issue 1,175

Oh, hi friends! 

What is your plan?

Your vision, your idea, your intention.

Take in all the advice from others that you want, see what aligns, see what doesn’t.

But remember to return to your plan. 

Keep walking your own path. 

You might not know exactly where it leads, but no one else will have a better idea than you.

Trust.

“I like existential type movies where you’re like, What am I doing with my life? And that your attempt to find meaning comes in conflict with the world around you. You look at the answers other people have found and they feel like not enough.”

- Mike White

This charming four-minute video interview with Mike White (creator of The White Lotus) is eight years old, but I love his perspective about writing, especially in terms of “open” and “closed” phases.

Sometimes, he says, you’re open to all the inputs and other people’s ideas. But other times you must close yourself off and simply write.