the secret to freedom in art & business — kening zhu
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the secret to freedom in art & business — kening zhu
No one else is competing with you. You’re in your own world of creativity and innovation. For you, because you’re continually pushing your boundaries, it’s intense and hard, but it’s also extremely liberating. To not be free is much harder than being free.
Dan Sullivan • 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less
The artist learns how to help others and how to be helped. She learns how to steal and how to give away. She studies the marketplace and comes to understand it (as much as it can be understood.) She acquires perspective on herself and her work and the place of her work within the field of her contemporaries and of those who have gone before. She st
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
You don't need discipline as an artist. You need devotion, because creativity rewards those with the highest self-respect, not with the most talent. Starting each part of your day as important, as a ritual, you will start to understand what self-respect is.
Self-respect actually means what you eat, when you shower, cook, especially clean, when you d
... See moreExpected elation. Society has built a world that defines what's appealing and what's not. What success should look like. I spent years chasing this idea, and achieved it. And never felt truly happy. Why? It seems so obvious, there are a million songs and movies about how wealth and fame aren't the end all be all for human states. Yet we pursue it a... See more
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