Is this interesting? (1, #32)
On a Hard Question — Estimated Read Time: 26 seconds.
I’m now hoping for less interesting rather than more interesting. Violence is interesting. Horrible corruption and scandals and rattling sabers and talking about war and demonizing a billion people of a different faith in the world… those are all interesting. Sitting in a chair and really thinking about what this means and why the fact that what I drive might have something to do with how people in other parts of the world feel about me isn’t interesting to anybody else.
Easier said than done, David Foster Wallace.
Why do we feel so compelled to be interesting?
Insights via this 2003 interview with David Foster Wallace, which I found in David Perell’s incredible Friday Finds newsletter.
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