Joan Didion once said the blank page was like facing a white bull.

It charges at you, and every day you have to find the courage to stand your ground.

Joan Didion once said the blank page was like facing a white bull.

It charges at you, and every day you have to find the courage to stand your ground.

I’ve felt that more times than I’d like to admit.

Over the years, I’ve experimented with how I work.

Early mornings. Late nights. Cafés. Silence.

Some days the ideas flowed. Other days, I wrestled.

Then I read about how Quentin Tarantino changed his writing process.

Back when he wrote Pulp Fiction, it was notebooks in cafés, full of energy and instinct.

But by the time he wrote Inglourious Basterds, he did it differently.

Four hours of writing in the morning. Then stop.

Sit in a hot tub.

Let the next day’s scenes come to him. He said his work got better for it.

That hit me.

Because I’ve found the same.

Lifestyle Pricing gave me the freedom to take back my time.

And with that came the permission to change the way I work.

Now, I get more ideas running than typing.
I listen more. Force less.

I’ve gone from chasing ideas to letting them arrive.

But here’s the thing.

You can’t do that if you’re stuck in survival mode.

You need space.

You need time to notice what actually works for you.

Turns out the breakthrough comes not when you fight the white bull.

But when you learn to step back and watch it from a distance.