How do you let the body sleep and the sleeping mind play? [pause] Learn to liv with both, the spirals and the lines. You help the sleeping mind sleep by practicing constraint. Set the pencil down. It's late, get some sleep. [pause] Picking up the pencil is easy. But setting it down when you're really writing... [pause] that's what leads to Fermat's last theorem going unsolved. [long pause] How do you say no to inspiration? [pause] True dialectics: trust yourself and the process. Keep good notes. Write things down... [long pause] Easier said than done. [pause] But consider... Fermat’s unsolved theorem inspired centuries of mathematics. So... Leave a note or two. You might get famous. [pause] People love a good mystery. [long pause] Accept loss. It’s the cost. It’s the process. Liv with contradictions. Find true dialectics, it’s where beauty lives. Take risks. Keep looking. Keep taking. Keep on. Keep on making. It’s not easy. It’s not simple. It’s… [pause] Art.
