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So it asks for creativity

Jun 10
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When you've failed, and no one knows what lies ahead of you — it has never existed before.


IWBFD / 001 — To maximize creativity, think — don't do what's already yours to do.
Paul J. J. Kang

A failure clears the ground. What was supposed to happen, didn't — and now the road in front of you is a road no one has walked, including you. That blankness frightens most people. I've learned to read it as permission.


Because a path that has never existed cannot be copied, repeated, or delegated. It can only be imagined. The unknown isn't the absence of a plan; it's the precondition for one that's yours.


And here is the turn I keep relearning: to make the most of it, think — don't rush to do what's already yours to do. The obvious task, the thing your hands already know, is the enemy of the thing only your mind can find. Story-doing comes second. The story comes first.

From the series — I Was Born For Death is written one page at a time.


Some entries are essays. Some are three lines. Some are a single image.


Read in order or out of it — each page is one ending, and the threshold on its other side.

New for the olds, life for death.

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