Jasmine Medina
@jasminesbrain
Jasmine Medina
The creative compass — letting your creativity guide you. What is your north star? Where do you hope to be?
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of... See more
Herding enables remote orchestration of the human situation, foreclosing action alternatives and thus moving behavior along a path of heightened probability that approximates certainty.
Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol
This impulse is helpful most of the time, but compounded over one’s life it stops us from moving towards what Gilovich and Davidai call our “ideal self.” When people reflect on their lives, these are the things that people regret most – not moving towards their ideal selves.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Perhaps we’ve spread ourselves too thin, by trying to do too much, too fast, with too little. Or maybe we are just limited by a conventional view of success. When we constantly pursue and prioritise ‘more’ above ‘meaning’, we take wrong turns, box ourselves in,
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.comIt’s easier to recognize beauty than it is to create it. You’re good enough to know that what you’re doing isn’t good, but not good enough to produce something great. When you find yourself in this frustrating limbo, the challenge is to never forget what got you there in the first place. Remember that thing that got you into the game.
Your love. You... See more
Your love. You... See more
James Clear • Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says
I collapsed into dread. I was so afraid. Afraid that no one was trying to stop this machine. Astounded that no one cared how it spun at unsafe revolutions. I couldn’t recognize myself. Who was this person? No answer. I resigned myself to being the operator of a machine I had no agency over.
It’s scary when you think you can’t stop yourself.
It’s scary when you think you can’t stop yourself.