..the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running - Bill Watterson, Creator of Calvin & Hobbes Here's an excerpt from a speech Bill Watterson gave at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, to the 1990 graduating class SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED Bill Watterson - Kenyon College Commencement - May 20, 1990 If I've learned one thing from being a cartoonist, it's how important playing is to creativity and happiness. My job is essentially to come up with 365 ideas a year. If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood. I've found that the only way I can keep writing every day, year after year, is to let my mind wander into new territories. To do that, I've had to cultivate a kind of mental playfulness. We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions;...
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