Watt: What's the story: "Don't Try"? Is it from that piece he wrote?
Linda: See those big volumes of books? [Points to bookshelf] They're called Who's Who In America.
It's everybody, artists, scientists, whatever. So he was in there and
they asked him to do a little thing about the books he's written and
duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. At the very end they say, is there anything you
wanna say, you know, what is your philosophy of life, and some people
would write a huge long thing. A dissertation, and some people would
just go on and on. And Hank just put, "Don't Try." Now, for you, what do
you think that means?
Watt: Well for me it always meant like be natural.
Linda: Yeah, yeah.
Watt: Not like...being lazy!
Linda: Yeah, I get so many different ideas from people that don't
understand what that means. Well, "Don't Try? Just be a slacker? lay
back?" And I'm no! Don't try, do. Because if you're spending your time trying something, you're not doing it..."DON'T TRY."
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