Comments on: Interview with Nick Pagan on Establishing Alternative Income With Limited Energy http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/09/08/interview-with-nick-pagan-on-establishing-alternative-income-with-limited-energy/ Living Less Large in Central MA Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:28:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Frugal in The Fruitlands - Interview http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/09/08/interview-with-nick-pagan-on-establishing-alternative-income-with-limited-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-791 Frugal in The Fruitlands - Interview Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:18:01 +0000 http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/?p=131#comment-791 [...] Recently, I had an e-mail ‘interview’ with Lise Fracalossi, who has a blog called Frugal in the Fruitlands, a blog devoted to frugality and voluntary simplicity. We share an interest in cognitive science and Lise had a few specific questions about productivity, creating streams of income and some other points that I wrote about in my free e-book, ‘Understand How to Operate Your Brain Perfectly.’ You can read the article here: Frugal in the Fruitlands - Interview [...] [...] Recently, I had an e-mail ‘interview’ with Lise Fracalossi, who has a blog called Frugal in the Fruitlands, a blog devoted to frugality and voluntary simplicity. We share an interest in cognitive science and Lise had a few specific questions about productivity, creating streams of income and some other points that I wrote about in my free e-book, ‘Understand How to Operate Your Brain Perfectly.’ You can read the article here: Frugal in the Fruitlands – Interview [...]

]]> By: Chad http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/09/08/interview-with-nick-pagan-on-establishing-alternative-income-with-limited-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-769 Chad Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:55:31 +0000 http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/?p=131#comment-769 Excellent interview. A lot of good material to chew over. The line "To live within your current realm of skills and strengths requires you to eliminate any desires that you cannot currently fulfill and to accept the limitations that such a stance would leave you with." struck resonance with me, as over the past few years I've been trying to simplify my life. Doing so slowly has made me think about what I like, what I want, what I have, and what I can do without. Just like living in a small house might require owning less stuff than you want to have to, living in your current skills, strengths, incomes, time, and other limitations, may require compromises elsewhere. And just as you can build an addition or get a bigger house, with time, effort, and sometimes help, you can build your strengths and skills with time, effort, and sometimes help. On the topic of "Take action and make progress and perfection be damned..", I am reminded of a line I heard from an RPG author (some of the same challenges you might be facing as a larp author): "Give yourself permission to suck". For him that means damn the quality, write the first draft anyhow. First drafts always suck, regardless of the efforts put in to not sucking. Once you embrace this wholeheartedly, it removes a lot of the fear of creating, freeing you to just create, and to edit and revise later. Editing and revising are much less fear inducing than the initial draft. Excellent interview. A lot of good material to chew over. The line “To live within your current realm of skills and strengths requires you to eliminate any desires that you cannot currently fulfill and to accept the limitations that such a stance would leave you with.” struck resonance with me, as over the past few years I’ve been trying to simplify my life. Doing so slowly has made me think about what I like, what I want, what I have, and what I can do without. Just like living in a small house might require owning less stuff than you want to have to, living in your current skills, strengths, incomes, time, and other limitations, may require compromises elsewhere. And just as you can build an addition or get a bigger house, with time, effort, and sometimes help, you can build your strengths and skills with time, effort, and sometimes help.

On the topic of “Take action and make progress and perfection be damned..”, I am reminded of a line I heard from an RPG author (some of the same challenges you might be facing as a larp author): “Give yourself permission to suck”. For him that means damn the quality, write the first draft anyhow. First drafts always suck, regardless of the efforts put in to not sucking. Once you embrace this wholeheartedly, it removes a lot of the fear of creating, freeing you to just create, and to edit and revise later. Editing and revising are much less fear inducing than the initial draft.

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