Conflict makes good drama, sells more newspapers, gets more clicks and keeps people from changing the channel but it’s only a small part of the whole overall story, and it’s important to know and to tell the whole story, and be well-rested enough to tell it as many times as it needs to be told, to the right people.
From Jessamyn West’s 2011 commencement speech at Goddard, linked in Andrew Sempere’s post on why he’s in Switzerland. Rest and storytelling and persistence are some of the most important things.
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