🪄 Use this one weird trick

Book of TREE 3.38

If I had a pound for every time someone said something to me about the weird way my brain works, I might have as much as £50.

I don’t think I’m especially weird. I just ask a question: What would make this weird?

I do this with my drawing all the time. I start to draw something normal, like a man, then I ask, What would make this weird?

And then I…
give him a bird body
throw on a few more fingers
add extra legs
enable a cat with wi-fi
ply a monkey with vodka
power a bike with poo
disguise a child as a chicken.

See, I’m not weird. I’m merely thinking of things that are. This does not only apply to drawing. You can do it with anything. Here’s an interior dialogue I wrote for you about dinner tonight:

YOU: What would make dinner weird?
ALSO YOU: We could serve the gravy and mash in glasses.
YOU: That would be weird, but it creates a practical problem—
ALSO YOU: Which we can solve by putting
BOTH: four straws in the bottle of wine!

Super easy. You can do this.

Here’s why: there are benefits. I just now googled ‘why it’s important to be weird’ and I got a bunch of AI extolations of weirdness because Google isn’t really Google anymore. If AI says so, it must be right. Now go ask that question.

Speaking of… Florence and her Machine have just released an extraordinary new song and video.

Grow slowly
Jeff