Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
Vox used this exact prompt throughout its named 9 Questions series on intellectual habits.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Nancy Groves, The Guardian, 4 August 2015 source ↗
What I’ve come to realize is this: Optimism is more than just a feeling; it’s a strategic approach. And when navigating uncertainty, setbacks and change, it’s one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal.
I act like a hopeful person, but I think that hope is based on having zero expectations.
It requires me to be in prayer and meditation daily, or else I will literally spiral out. It’s something that I put at the forefront of my life.
Well, again, getting back to Nietzsche’s statement, as a person of deep faith, I obviously believe in something in the end. I don’t know what it is, but it’s a great big something.
But if I’ve come up with any kind of mantra for myself it’s to try and put myself into a state of imaginative play.
Being alone in a room with a tiger: a recurring dream, never reality, fortunately.
In the series I’ve got massive slabs of dialogue so I had to understand the scientific principles involved and then fake it to credibility.
My mum beautifully embraced and encouraged the unpredictability of my wayward career.
There’s been a lot of stuff that I turned down.
A painting of the late actor Bille Brown by Australian artist Ben Quilty, to commemorate decades of fraternal and professional bonds.
Ja’Tovia Gary, David Lynch, Richard Ford, Peyton Manning, Jia Tolentino, Steve Jobs
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