It’s very easy for artists to become insular and not meet new people. That’s a shame because you don’t know if you will be helping a new person or they might be helping you on this journey. Your thinking becomes a little twisted if you are only thinking your own thoughts.
Books do help though. I just read Louis Lamour’s “Lonesome Gods”. Tremendous thought and philosophy and really good reading at the same time. Saw the other day “Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand. I had read the book twice when I was in my twenties but it had so much more meaning during the courtroom scene about keeping your integrity and being true to yourself. I don’t know what happened but I just started bawling.
This is what I meant about meeting new people and planting seeds of discovery in your mind. Meeting new people in books or thru coffee whatever but start that seed planting.
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