The tragedy of a wasted imagination is intellectual famine.
When you think of the word ‘trying’, what comes to mind?
When parents attempt to conceive a child, they refer to it as trying.
When farmers talk about a lack of crop yield, they refer to it as a trying time.
When artists are behind on work, they say they are trying to get it done.
English is a language of contradictions.
What are you trying to do?
Art is personal.
Don’t treat it like a business.
Art is not born out of comfort.
It is born the feeling of not being able to draw breath.
Beware of educated guesses without practical application.
What I mean by that is to take people telling you what you should do with a grain of salt.
Listen to notes, but don’t openly take them from people who don’t know what they are talking about.
If you get the hat, you’ve got to wear it. Leadership isn’t just a higher salary, sheriff.
Don’t be a yes-hole.
Whether you are at a point of conflict or despair.
Make your attempts count.
Art can by your trying time.
Bear the burden of that fruit.
I tell you this as someone who has sat where you are sitting.
The same way that people find truth staring back at them when they talk openly by a fire.
Sometimes the most tactically efficient thing you can do…is survive.
Zeke Hanson<zekehanson@hotmail.com>
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Subject: A Trying Time
The tragedy of a wasted imagination is intellectual famine.
When you think of the word ‘trying’, what comes to mind?
When parents attempt to conceive a child, they refer to it as trying.
When farmers talk about a lack of crop yield, they refer to it as a trying time.
When artists are behind on work, they say they are trying to get it done.
English is a language of contradictions.
What are you trying to do?
Art is personal.
Don’t treat it like a business.
Art is not born out of comfort.
It is born the feeling of not being able to draw breath.
Beware of educated guesses without practical application.
What I mean by that is to take people telling you what you should do with a grain of salt.
Listen to notes, but don’t openly take them from people who don’t know what they are talking about.
If you get the hat, you’ve got to wear it. Leadership isn’t just a higher salary, sheriff.
Don’t be a yes-hole.
Whether you are at a point of conflict or despair.
Make your attempts count.
Art can by your trying time.
Bear the burden of that fruit.
I tell you this as someone who has sat where you are sitting.
The same way that people find truth staring back at them when they talk openly by a fire.
Sometimes the most tactically efficient thing you can do…is survive.