Lex Fridman's poem 'So, You Want To Be A Writer?' [Normie]

Excerpts from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast
Episdoe 1934 - Lex Fridman: open.spotify.c...
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[Normie] = edited as little as possible, as to confer the initial meaning, as it was depicted in the podcast
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[@VijayFonsi]

'Find what you love and let it kill you' Joe Rogan
thank you brother

[@shard_dnb]

so you want to be a writer?
Charles Bukowski
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.

[@dalemason5970]

Simply astonishing..💫💥💫

[@zephyreli6974]

This is Charles Bukowski's poem.

[@PaxDeflow]

The library’s of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind

[@mcjeans_within8635]

Wow you must have written many successful books

[@sateentuoksu]

Bukowski

[@Shmyrk]

This is him reading bukowski

[@mattyfox_]

I cant tell if he plagirised bukowski or is just reading bukowski

[@straightupgarbage1028]

It's Bukowski's

[@dnevo9808]

This is Charles bukowskis poem

[@ruslpit2615]

I’m always so amazed with Lex. Truly a remarkable person. That was a really good poem

[@ynat957]

That wasn't his poem. He read Charles Buckowskis's poem.

[@davidroyl2241]

​@@ynat957 I'm sure he credited him in the full podcast.

[@msg2743]

god you Rogansphere redacts are incredible lol i bet you think Diaz is a gangster and Schaub is a BEAST of a comedian

[@bardsamok9221]

​@@msg2743hahaha, this

[@Blahndle]

He quoted at the end. And he probably figured it's a no-brainer that Bukowski said that. Chill

[@straightbeef]

this isnt lex’s poem, its charles bukowski’s poem

[@Blahndle]

Oh Lex I love your passion! What about Ikigai. Find what you love and let it give you life!

[@cricketshortsfun]

Charles Bukowski ❤

[@bmanfrogan7264]

Anyone got the transcript?

[@baserink3941]

It's a fucking bukowski poem ya dunce

[@IvanFyodorovichKaramazov]

just search "so you want to be a writer?" by Charles Bukowski

[@samuelj2408]

A HACK!.

[@peterdanieljakim6218]

Its fxxxxx Bukowski uploader...

[@joffygeorge-jz6yy]

More than 1000 poems...Charles Bukowski is a legend

[@pnuemam3330]

Nice Bukowski rewrite