The Question Creates the Avenue

There is a rule of productivity that says: avoid “open loops.” If a task is left half finished, you’ll be distracted, subconsciously tracking it all day, will waste energy, get little else done.

In life, the question creates the path.

Writing as an art form is the exploration of a question, is the creation of an open loop.

Of course the loop cannot be too open. That is ‘formal thought disorder’, a symptom of Schizophrenia.

But if you keep a taut string between writer and the reader’s mind, then you have the possibility of transformation. Because then they have a question to carry around — and questions are the lifeblood, the alerting force of one’s perceptual system.

What’s is the point of having eyes if there is nothing new to see?

Providing “answers,” as opposed to questions, are just a way of letting the reader head off early so they can get back to watching TikTok.

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry”

- Nassim Taleb

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