Agalia Tan
- Embrace the fact that there is no one like you, no touch like yours. Embrace your own magic touch .
from 30 lessons from art / business / life — kening zhu
- Everything happens in cycles: flow —> resistance —> stuckness —> renewal Embrace the cyclical nature of everything
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- Develop a keen sense of what you love . Be devoted to the art of finding great and small loves, of nurturing old loves, and kindling new ones.
from 30 lessons from art / business / life — kening zhu
- If the work feels like a drag, you're doing it wrong
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- The journey is about continual way-finding. It’s not like you find a way and then you’re done. Way-finding must happen everyday.
from 30 lessons from art / business / life — kening zhu
- Continual discernment is key
from 30 lessons from art / business / life — kening zhu
- Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.from What You'll Wish You'd Known
- The ‘90s version of not selling out meant refusing to play certain spaces or not letting your song be in a beer commercial. The ‘20s version of selling out means making things in limited quantities to play against mass culture. Though different, the responses come from a similar place. They’re both sensing a culture where, to quote Claire L. Evans ... See more
from Sell out without selling out
- Something else happens in a world of superabundance, and an attention economy. Because you can’t find what you want, you start to dig yourself into very specific niches, and join sub-groups. Everyone atomizes into millions of groups connected by very specific interests. In more benign ways, it can be great – you find your fellow travelers, and I ca... See more
from Ten (Big) Trends
the other side of niches