I too read only what was posted. It seemed to me that specific paragraph was what was relevant to Bizi. I thought that she posted the link to give a reference, which I appreciated. I umm, kind of yelled at her about indicating sources for bits of writing. Anyway, I much appreciated that the link was posted so we could see the authors/source.

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As to the paragraph posted:

First, I spent considerable time doing loopity loops over the quadruple negative in the last sentence.

"go a lot of places you wouldn’t normally go unless you weren’t completely starved of inspiration"

Having decided that was one negative too many to suit their point, my brain proceeded to hack to pieces the remaining rhetoric. It struck me that they associate the lack of passion with an intense pain in the pit of the stomach. I would argue (because I'm bloody argumentative, right) that if one feels such pain, if indeed one suffers for the absence of passion, that is itself a form of passion.

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When I was quite done demolishing the writing in my head, I finally started thinking in terms of what they might be trying to say, and what Bizi might have seen in that paragraph. I decided on this:

"If you don't have something that fires you up, go find it. Go find new stimuli."

I admit, I had a weird feeling about the going places I wouldn't go unless starving (a dumpster came to mind), but I assumed rosier scenarios. So much for that! But back to the working assumption, I thought of Bizi saying she wanted to find hobbies at times, and thought it might be along the lines of that: trying new things until some thing sets off a spark.

waves, who went to bed thinking I should be a professional critic. I seem to be able to find fault with everything... a lot of fault even.