Use your fears as a motivational mixtape

Are you always funny when you’re mad? Do you have the best sex after a night of teasing? Does jealousy motivate you to get in shape? You have agency. Simply recreate the same variables for motivation.

I look sort of sad here probably because I feel sort of sad.

I only wrote Unwifeable because I was pissed.

An acquaintance kept being so annoying and I thought to myself the only way I’m ever going to be able to call the shots in life is if I do write a book and escape the rat race.

Well, it didn’t quite work out like that. Because, you know, I’m not indep…