How’s that New Years Resolution coming? How’s that passion project holding up compared to your list of excuses? When was the last time you did somebody else’s homework for them? Been a bit? Then why blame someone else for not helping you scratch more off your list? Nobody. Flat out. Nobody. Is going to do […]
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There are a lot of people out there who want to be your coach. Who want to give you advice and tell you how you can do your job better. But the hard truth about the reality of creativity is that there is no road map. There are questions you should be asking when people
Because we can’t hyper jump yet, there are some explorations that just aren’t feasible…yet. One of the things that astronomers have hypothesized over the last several decades is whether or not it rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus. The pressures of those planets could actually hold untold riches. Imagine a world in which diamonds were
The trouble with a singular muse is that there is no breadth to the process. All of your work ends up the same, or about the same thing. While it is good for you to have a style, it is not helpful to beat a dead horse. Speed date with your creations. Don’t get hung
Madness. Pure. Unadulterated. Madness. That’s what you have to look forward to. You aren’t owed anything. You don’t deserve anything. You are not better than anyone else. Awards are like Kool-Aid. If enough people drink the same thing, it isn’t cool anymore…it’s a cult. There will always be newer things, fancier things…items that you think
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Have you ever found shirts or pants that are marked the same size, but are clearly inches off? Or ordered shoes online that are labeled in your size but are, in fact, made to fit someone half that size? That inconsistency is a failure in margins. A ruler is not there for interpretation. It is
The block is hard. I won’t tell you that it isn’t difficult to push through. But I won’t tell you it’s impossible either. Be grateful for it. Every marathon has a wall. There is no formula for you to break through, except for your own sheer force of will. If it were easy to do,
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Everybody wants a little more. More attention. More money. More time off. More. You’re not alone in that. But because of that fact, we all need to understand that nobody is going to do our work for us. They’re all busy trying to get what they want, and they don’t have mind-width to care at
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Without struggle, there can be no art. You cannot appreciate joy, without pain. And you cannot persevere if there is nothing to overcome. The fact of the matter is, wherever you find yourself, that is exactly where you need to be right now, in order to shape you become later. We may not like it.
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You know the saying, right? Where there’s a will… …there’s usually a dead body… That’s not the phrase you were thinking of? Well, it should be. Because the casualties of art are profound and haunting. Delivering on art is never a failure. Not. Ever. Not completing art is the crime. That’s the stuff that leaves
