Coming up next on Passionstruck.

Whatever it is that I'm dealing with my own life, I'm always like, okay, and I'll write a book about it, and that's all figure it out, because I can't think if I'm not writing something down.

And so that's definitely true for me.

But the funny thing about this book is often when I'm writing a book, I have something called a hooky book, which is the book.

It's like my busman's holiday. It's the book that I go work on when I'm like

taking a break from what I'm actually supposed to be doing. Working is one of the most dangerous

forms of procrastination, but fortunately for me, sometimes my hooky books actually get public.

This was a hooky book. The Four Tenancies was a hooky book. Outer Order Intercolm was a

hokey book. I wrote a book called My Color Pilgrimans,

because I went through this period of being absolutely preoccupied with color,

and I've shown it to a few people.

I think it's really interesting, I have to say.

And they're always like, well, you had fun with that, didn't you?

So that might never see the light of day. So I have

all kinds of oddball projects, some of which like will come to have a life. When I was working

in this, I had a giant document of aphorisms. And some were secrets of adulthood in that

they had some kind of useful thing to remind people

when they're dealing with relationships or trying to get ourselves to do something or trying

to know ourselves better. But then I have a lot that I would call just mere observations.

This was me just noticing something. The tulip is an empty flower. What is up with that? The tulip is an empty flower. I find

them very unsatisfying. That is a mere observation. And then I also have a bunch of bleak aphrasom.

I'm like, nobody wants Gretchen Rubin's bleak aphorism. I leave those to the side. So these are really the ones that are useful.

...