How You Want to Be?

Since that post before, about the quotes, was intended to inspire, let’s hit start a loop of “Up With People” and stay on that theme for a minute. It was recently noticed that Hugh MacLeod’s 2004 book, “How to Be Creative,” is making the rounds again. Why? Because it’s a good, quick, interesting read, with fun cartoons and everything. There’s nothing revolutionary in it, but dang if it isn’t filled to the brim with the kind of stuff that will either make you feel better, will make you hang your head in resignation, saying, “Aw, I guess he’s right” (but in an overall postive way), or will just comfort you in knowing that a lot of you’er suffering over, whatever it is, has been suffered through by other people. And of particular note: this isn’t the sort of thing that you’d usually find this intrepid Unbeige writer suggesting, as this sort of stuff usually turns his brain to mush and makes him yell obscenities (see: several police reports from a certain Barnes and Nobel when he found himself wandering into the self help section). So you know if it’s being suggested, there has to be something in there of value. To him at least.