On trusting your own process

Even if you know what it feels like to be completely open to where your curiosity wants you to go, like Grothendieck, it is a fragile state. It often takes considerable work to keep the creative state from collapsing, especially as your work becomes successful and the social expectations mount. When I listen to interviews with creative people or re

I think it’s about owning what you need. It can be really hard to face yourself in a landscape that’s asking so much of you all the time. You really need to own your needs, own where you are, and not shy away from that out of fear or FOMO.

Think about my process less like a standard to follow and more like a set of training wheels to rely on while exploring your bravery around this new skill you are acquiring in your own unique context.

To do it, we must tap into our true, authentic self. This means that creativity is the process of learning to trust oneself.

As artists, we seek to restore our childlike perception: a more innocent state of wonder and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival. Our filter inevitably reduces Source intelligence by interpreting the data that arrives instead of letting it pass freely. As the vessel fills with these recast fragments, relationships are created with the

within the frameworks of operating a business. Those mindsets and tools come together to support the process of art, and all of the vulnerability, risk of failure, actual failure, negotiation, and surprise involved in open-endedly and openheartedly creating the life—and the working life—you want.