{"id":21706,"date":"2013-01-18T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/01\/18\/the-best-advice-i-can-come-up-with-is-this-keep\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:23:19","slug":"the-best-advice-i-can-come-up-with-is-this-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/01\/18\/the-best-advice-i-can-come-up-with-is-this-keep\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The best advice I can come up with is this: Keep your living expenses LOW. The smaller you live (materially-speaking), the bigger you can live (creatively-speaking). This way the stakes aren\u2019t so high\u2026you aren\u2019t demanding of your passion that it keeps you living a rich life. Then you can stretch and grow with the most possible freedom. This was my strategy in my 20\u2019s, and it\u2019s the reason I worked really hard to avoid all debts, and to keep my lifestyle really manageable. If I\u2019d been saddled with a big life, I don\u2019t think I ever could have found my way forward to the freedom I have now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GilbertLiz\/posts\/406258082789646\">Elizabeth Gilbert\u2019s advice<\/a>\u00a0for people who want to turn their passion into a career, a fine addition to our <a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/tagged\/advice\">ongoing archive of sage advice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/how-to-avoid-work\/\">how to avoid work<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/27\/purpose-work-love\/\">do what you love<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curatorscode.org\">\u21ac<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/livefromthenypl.tumblr.com\/post\/40844720164\/the-best-advice-i-can-come-up-with-is-this-keep\">LIVEfromtheNYPL<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best advice I can come up with is this: Keep your living expenses LOW. The smaller you live (materially-speaking), the bigger you can live (creatively-speaking). This way the stakes aren\u2019t so high\u2026you aren\u2019t demanding of your passion that it keeps you living a rich life. Then you can stretch and grow with the most &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/01\/18\/the-best-advice-i-can-come-up-with-is-this-keep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}