Wisdom Takes Work

This is the best book in the Virtues series. It's the one that honestly makes the most sense right now.

Notes & Highlights

“A writer—and I believe, generally all persons,” Borges reminds us, “must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”