To Be Interesting, You Have To Be Interested

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🗃 Resources:: Show Your Work! (2014)
2024-08-13 - 19:51

Donald Barthelme supposedly said to one of his students, “Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person?”

This seems like a really mean thing to say, unless you think of the word interesting the way writer Lawrence Weschler does:

For him, to be “interest-ing” is to be curious and attentive, and to practice “the continual projection of interest.”

To put it more simply: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.

Becoming An Interesting Person Begins With Becoming Curious