36Timely Completing Using Your Existential Intelligence

Eric Maisel

DOI: 10.4324/9781003351344-36

You will find it easier to complete your works of art if you hold that completing them matters to you. That is, you need a certain existential decisiveness to combat all the reasons for not completing.

But where does this existential decisiveness come from and how can you cultivate more of it? To answer this important question, we need to look at a subject that may be unfamiliar to you: the idea of existential intelligence. Please join me as we explore this quite underexplored subject.

For the past hundred years, people have been thought of – and thought of themselves – as falling somewhere along a continuum of intelligence that ran from incredibly ...

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