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The Art of Staring Into Space

Creativity happens when you find the courage to do absolutely nothing

Will Buckingham
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readSep 10, 2019

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II spent much of my time in school staring out of windows. In class, I only had to glance at the birds wheeling in the sky and I would be lost for a minute, two, 10, 20… until my teachers yelled at me for daydreaming and broke the spell.

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Will Buckingham
Human Parts

Writer & philosopher. PhD. Stories & ideas to make the world a better place. HELLO, STRANGER (Granta 2021): BBC R4 Book of the Week. Twitter @willbuckingham