stackyFACTSPerfectionism is a terrible disease. The Italian poet spent an absurd amount of time obsessing over the exact same four lines of text, erasing and rewriting them until the paper was practically destroyed and his friends were completely exhausted.
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Imagine a billionaire CEO giving away his entire fortune just to play a tambourine in the subway. That was Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari, a wealthy 13th-century…
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Fierce Japanese warriors were expected to be highly refined, meaning they penned elegant verses about cherry blossoms right before engaging in absolutely…
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Taking quality control to an absolutely unhinged level, Rouault decided that his older works were no longer up to his standards. He ruthlessly tossed exactly…
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Imposter syndrome hit classical composers hard, too. Terrified of being unfavorably compared to Beethoven, Brahms ruthlessly destroyed dozens of his own…
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If you didn't aggressively smack your bed with a large stick, all the assorted bugs and mice would get a little too comfortable inside your sleeping space.
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The industrial revolution was delayed by about 2,000 years purely because of a lack of imagination. In the 1st century AD, Hero of Alexandria invented the…
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