How to Be Interesting

Revive forgotten stories. Read old books. Dust off forgotten trends. Listen to rare music. You might find your favorite thing hiding in the woodwork.

Why Be Interesting

To limit your regrets.
So you can respect yourself.
In order to banish boredom.
So that you can leave a mark, not a blemish.
And most of all, because you can.

Explore ideas, places, and opinions. The inside of the echo chamber is where all the boring people hang out.

Waiting around for a sign? Sorry, you have to paint your own.

To deny a dream is to kill it in its infancy.
Don’t feel guilty for taking a shot at something. Don’t feel terrible for wanting something.
Save the guilt for never giving yourself the chance to try.

Try it out. Play around with a new idea. Do something strange. If you never leave your comfort zone, you won’t grow.

Really: How will you know how high to aim if you’ve never looked up?

Mistakes happen. Often. Sometimes they’re your fault and sometimes they’re your misfortune.
Freely admit to both kinds.

Everything you’ll ever know is only a fraction of a microscopic dribble in the great, churning universe of information. Let this humbling fact be comforting in its enormity.

What makes you interesting makes you valuable: Only you can express what you know, do what you do, and know what you know. You don’t need a giant niche, just one big enough to plant a flag in.

Don’t run away and join the rat race. Run away and join a circus full of people who are living their dreams.
If you seek a circus, you’ll be running toward something enjoyable, instead of merely exhausting yourself.