Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
"It's nice to have a little help, but we often resent when someone else tries to do it all for us. Each individual wants to make their own dreams a reality. If someone hands you the whole thing on a silver platter, they gift you the result, but rob you of the accomplishment.
Remember this not only when chasing your dreams, but also when support
... See morefrom 3-2-1: On Self-Worth, How to Have Style, and How to Build a Great Career by James Clear
on how to'sTravel writer Freya Stark on how to have style:
"Style—to renounce all but the essential, so that the essential may speak."
from 3-2-1: On Self-Worth, How to Have Style, and How to Build a Great Career by James Clear
on style"The secret of creative work is to make a lot and publish a little.
Don't underestimate the power of giving yourself permission to create junk. Most of what you create will be mediocre or bad.
But that's okay. You only have to show people the good stuff. Make 100 things, discard 90, and share the 10 best. Create, create, create. Edit, edit, edit
... See morefrom 3-2-1: On the Cost of Success, the Secret of Creative Work, and the Power of Walking by James Clear
read this when the mind is loud and the creative practice
on creative work- Develop a keen sense of what you love . Be devoted to the art of finding great and small loves, of nurturing old loves, and kindling new ones.
from 30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
- The journey is about continual way-finding. It’s not like you find a way and then you’re done. Way-finding must happen everyday.
from 30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
- rather than thinking about business as the exchange of value for money , instead, I’m thinking about business as:
a set of systems and processes
to help me honor my creative energy,
shared with purpose in the world.from honoring your creative energy in business — kening zhu by Kening Zhu
- It needs to be a space where you don’t measure your success by the metrics of more likes, more traffic — but by how deeply and truly you inhabit your own creative essence, in public.
from the internet as a creative practice — kening zhu by Kening Zhu
- What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that engage us will do so through story, craft, and a deeper and more sophisticated sense of meaning. The creator economy was ultimately driven by content (enabled by ubiquitous access to content creation and... See more
- Let me phrase what I’ve been saying in this essay in a slightly different way. What you want to create is a distributed apprenticeship in the art of being you. You want to assemble a set of influences you can observe and imitate, and peers and mentors that can give you feedback on how well you converge with that model of yourself.
from First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us by Henrik Karlsson