[mind]
Think wisely.
[mind]
Think wisely.
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not
So the point is to take the work seriously but you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a riff about this in Stephen Pressfield’s War of Art, where he talks about how amateurs are too precious with their work: “The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make him choke. The seeming
... See moreThe source of power: “There are people that things happen to. And there are people that make things happen. The latter run the world.”
Something Charlie Chaplin said: "Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the look-out for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.
I would say, pick a subject that will stimulate you, elaborate it and
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