art practice
You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
What separates good work from great isn’t talent but persistence.
The most successful people aren’t those who feel motivated all the time; they’re the ones who work even when they don’t feel like it. Too often, waiting to feel ready means never starting.
Outliers act despite their feelings, not because of them.
-Shane Parrish, Brain Food #627
Worry Is Sin
The Manifesto
Worry is sin. Worry is blasphemy. It is doubt against reality, against creation. Each anxious thought spits in GOD's face. Your fear is faithlessness. A cancer of the soul that spreads until it paralyzes and kills. Worry is to wage war against the divine order. Against what must be. Every second spent in anxiety is a sin. B
... See moreFew understand the degree of rule-breaking required, because new ideas seem much more conservative once they succeed. They seem perfectly reasonable once you're using the new model of the world they brought with them. But they didn't at the time
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost
Sasha Chapinx.com
Unfortunately, if you want to do new things, you'll face a force more powerful than other people's skepticism: your own skepticism. You too will judge your early work too harshly. How do you avoid that?