🧶 Tags:: #literature_Notes 🗃 Resources:: [[Show Your Work! (2014)]] 2024-08-13 - 19:51
Donald Barthelme supposedly said to one of his students, “Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person?”
This seems like a really mean thing to say, unless you think of the word interesting the way writer Lawrence Weschler does:
For him, to be “interest-ing” is to be curious and attentive, and to practice “the continual projection of interest.”
To put it more simply: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.
[[Becoming An Interesting Person Begins With Becoming Curious]]
