More Than What You Start

Published: May 1, 2021, noon

b'There was a motivational poster in my school that admonished us to "Always finish what you start." It included a photograph of a sprinter about to cross the finish line. It shouldn\'t surprise you to hear I don\'t think the creative life is the same thing as the 100m dash, and that there is often great value in starting many things we don\'t finish, cutting our losses, and being willing to make a U-turn now and then. Let\'s talk about it.\\n

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