for makers
Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True acceptance comes from inside us. It takes asking ourselves challenging questions like: What do I want from my work? What’s most important about it to me ? How would I create my work differently if I p... See more
What if you gave yourself the gift of inner acceptance?
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"If you just want to have your ideals, you can have them, but you may not have a business. So you have to engage with the market. You can try to influence the market, you can try to educate the market, but at the end of the day, they vote every day with their pocketbooks for exactly what they want. If you’re not prepared to serve them what they wan... See more
Brain Food: Obsess Over The Basics
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If the work feels like a drag, you're doing it wrong
30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
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Good ideas — actually, no, great ideas are fragile. Great ideas are easy to kill. An idea in its larval stage — all the best ideas when I first heard them sound bad. And all of us, myself included, are much more affected by what other people think of us and our ideas than we like to admit.... See more
If you are just four people in your own door, and you have a
Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
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We don’t just want to be a utility. We want to be something that brings emotion.
Designing For Desire
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What’s the most exciting place you can take it?
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"Be friendly to those who enjoy your work and friendlier to those who attack it."
3-2-1: How to stick to a new habit, how to handle criticism, and 4 types of wealth
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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
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