Leading a creative life
fix a hard upper limit on the number of things that you allow yourself to work on at any given time. In their book Personal Kanban, which explores this strategy in detail, the management experts Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry suggest no more than three items. Once you’ve selected those tasks, all other incoming demands on your time must wait
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life.
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
“Greatness is consistency.
Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.
Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.
Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.
Unheroic days can make for heroic decades.”
Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.
Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.
Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.
Unheroic days can make for heroic decades.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Hate as a Defense Mechanism, Reciprocity, and Consistency | James Clear
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Winning the game of life requires you to focus on the cards you have and choosing what to do with them.
Mel Robbins • The Let Them Theory
Ship creative work. On a schedule. Without attachment and without reassurance.
Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
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
It’s simple. Stay on the bus. Stay on the f*cking bus.Why, because if you do, in time you will begin to see a difference.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen • Arno Rafael Minkkinen: 'Stay on the bus. Stay on the f*cking bus', Finding Your Own Vision, New England School of Photography - 2004 — Speakola
Analyzing the cultural shift in the concept of genius, from an external creative spirit to an inherent personal trait.
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Well, yeah, I don't necessarily believe in the kind of supernatural element to it, but I think it is a useful way of thinking about it because it explains what is for lots of people a fundamentally inexplicable process, right? I mean, I'm sure you've had situations where you've tried to sit down to write something and it just will not come out.
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