What if instead of sitting at your desk for so many hours you exercised and sought inspiration and lived life and rested and then you came back to your desk the next day rested and focused and unblocked and created your best work in less time because you were healthy and happy and because you finished great work in less time you could repeat it all... See more

What if instead of sitting at your desk for so many hours you exercised and sought inspiration and lived life and rested and then you came back to your desk the next day rested and focused and unblocked and created your best work in less time because you were healthy and happy and because you finished great work in less time you could repeat it all... See more

I use Georgia O’Keeffe as an example of seasonality, that her productivity as an artist didn’t really pick up until she began saying, “You know what? In the summers, I’m going with Alfred Stieglitz, we’re going to Lake George and I’m going to sit there in a shanty,” she called it the shanty, it was an outbuilding near the lake, “I’m just going to... See more

I thought the key to his great work was an obsessive attachment to his identity as an artist. Rather, it was the ability to be fully present and inspired.

I sit at my desk eight or so hours a day because I think I’m supposed to, and about halfway through the day I begin to fully collapse and melt into my desk.