lessons for myself
Wanting to outperform another artist or make a work better than theirs rarely results in true greatness. Nor is it a mindset that has a healthy impact on the rest of our lives. As Theodore Roosevelt pointed out, comparison is the thief of joy. Besides, why would we want to create with the purpose of diminishing someone else?
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
be a paradox. build one thing, but don't be one thing. be an artist and a capitalist. be a savage and saint. treat business like a game. treat fitness like meditation. believe in god. believe in yourself. war and art. spirit and profit. be an insatiable serial killer in work. be a golden retriever in life. do everything to the extreme. you should... See more
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Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
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Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
... See moreAny knowledge that is not firsthand is necessarily incomplete. There's no book or description that can be substituted for your personal psychological and physiological reaction to something in the world.
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
When I see people described as progressive but they spend more energy hating the rich (e.g. landlords) versus helping people (e.g. pushing for more market rate housing), I’m reminded that people love being cruel while protected by the cloak of righteousness.
X. It’s what’s happening
Life got way chiller once I stopped conceptualizing it as some grand story and instead as just a participant in the cosmic chaos just tryna have a good time
Pavel Asparouhovtwitter.comOne of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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