Do it!
“Choose your art, practice your art, always, always choose your art over and above anything else. If you can’t do that, then you have—what, a few more years?”
Ava • how to avoid half-heartedness
Making things is hard and I feel like that’s the most useful thing to say about it.
Ava • Making Things Is Hard
Stop avoiding what you fear and practice existential courage
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Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
Maria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
Walking the path reveals more of the map
The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.
-Bonnie Friedman
