But I think there’s a larger moral to my collegiate story: I tried my damndest never to be boring. So much of life is achingly boring. Why make more of that shit? I took chances in college because I was really fucking bored. As an adult, it’s both easier and harder to be bored. You have to deal with many mundane adult things, which often feel stale. But you also have to deal with certain stressful adult things, and this is often not boring, at least not in the usual sense. Perhaps the key to being creative as an adult is letting the stress go, and instead focusing on how to get out of your rut. Focus on being as imaginative as you can possibly be. And make sure that your creative life makes people feel uncomfortable, and, more importantly, awake.
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The Tangential: Jason Zabel - “I Was Creative In College Because I Was Really Fucking Bored”

 
But I think there’s a larger moral to my collegiate story: I tried my damndest never to be boring. So much of life is achingly boring. Why make more of that shit? I took chances in college because I was really fucking bored. As an adult, it’s both easier and harder to be bored. You have to deal with many mundane adult things, which often feel stale. But you also have to deal with certain stressful adult things, and this is often not boring, at least not in the usual sense. Perhaps the key to being creative as an adult is letting the stress go, and instead focusing on how to get out of your rut. Focus on being as imaginative as you can possibly be. And make sure that your creative life makes people feel uncomfortable, and, more importantly, awake.
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The Tangential: Jason Zabel - “I Was Creative In College Because I Was Really Fucking Bored”

 

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    In my opinion, the difficulty with your scene wasn’t the subject matter. Toeing the line between student-teacher...
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  3. bellasteffani said: OMG, I am going through this right now! Thank you for this!
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    I’d be interested in reading that actually.
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    in my Screenwriting class. Technically,...greatest, so most
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