The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
What was enough to make the band “successful”? We weren’t starving. We could pay our rent. What did we actually … need? To live? To be happy?
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
My own email address was front and center on our website. I emailed back and forth with individual fans daily—about our lives, our gigs, ideas for shows—and often included a few words of den-mother comfort, because much of the fan…
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Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
The blog started feeding my songwriting.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
bought a twenty-dollar wooden red ukulele
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Often it is our own sense that we are undeserving of help that has immobilized us. Whether it’s in the arts, at work, or in our relationships, we often resist asking not only because we’re afraid of rejection but also because we don’t even think we deserve what we’re asking for.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
One of my favorite yoga teachers once told a story during class. Since ever, in China, bamboo farmers have planted baby bamboo shoots deep into the ground. And then, for three years, nothing happens. But the farmers will work, diligently watering the shoot, spreading hay and manure, waiting patiently, even though nothing is sprouting up. They simpl
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and my blog. The platform is irrelevant. I’ll go wherever the people are. What’s important is that I absorb, listen, talk, connect, help, and share. Constantly. The net gets so strong at a certain point that I can let it go for a few days—maybe weeks—and it…
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Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
the label, and also explaining transparently that we, the band, were seeing absolutely no profit from the records
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
As soon as the label dropped me, I posted a celebration blog,