for makers
If the work feels like a drag, you're doing it wrong
30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
What we can try to do—and what only human curation, so far, can make possible—is to find creative ways out of our house of mirrors. “Leave the door open on your way out” is one of our commandments, and it is an invitation to bring parallel worlds and universes, antagonists and dissidents, renegades and rebels into our beautiful bubble, and to engag... See more
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
And if I’m honest in the work, maybe I could be honest as a person. Maybe.
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Fear is a yield, not a stop sign. It doesn’t always mean not to proceed. Sometimes it just means you care.
Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski on forging your own reality:
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."
Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?
Ideas start out small, weak and fragile.
In order to grow, ideas need financial capital.
But they also need emotional capital — good energy, positivity, and resilience. The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and r... See more
Ideas start out small, weak and fragile.
In order to grow, ideas need financial capital.
But they also need emotional capital — good energy, positivity, and resilience. The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and r... See more
But that was just it – we were doing it our own way, at our own pace.
Comparison is the thief of joy and sensible business strategy too.
Comparison is the thief of joy and sensible business strategy too.
Lessons I'm still learning
