{"id":2172,"date":"2023-04-23T04:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T08:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/nick-caves-life-advice-to-a-13-year-old-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T04:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T08:38:31","slug":"nick-caves-life-advice-to-a-13-year-old-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/nick-caves-life-advice-to-a-13-year-old-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cave\u2019s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cMake your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life,\u201d Bertrand Russell counseled in his timeless advice on how to grow old<\/a>. There is a lovely symmetry between this orientation to the winter of life and the natural state of its springtime \u2014 in youth, curiosity unfurls centripetally from the self to the world, touching more and more facets of it with that electric jolt of discovery when everything is new and interesting and dazzling with delight. <\/p>\n

How to harness youth\u2019s centripetal curiosity as a creative force for bettering the world is what Nick Cave<\/a> \u2014 himself an insightful reckoner with the art of growing older<\/a> \u2014 explores in answering<\/a> a 13-year-old boy\u2019s question about how to live a full, creative, actualized, spiritually rich life in \u201ca world ridden with so much hate, and disconnect.\u201d<\/p>\n

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