On Creativity

“Be intentional with your influences—what you consume shapes what you create.

1. Choose your Big 5. Who are the people whose mindset, work, and values align with where you want to go? Write their names down.

2. Prioritize their content. Before consuming anything else, engage with their work first—books, podcasts, videos, posts. Let their thinking sha

rich kids being able to do art for a living may be a reflection on their privilege but it seems to me like a reflection on the fact that a human that doesn't have to worry about money will often choose art. everyone is an artist until rent is due. i wish we all had that right

“The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there’s another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your re