Mickey Patel
@mickeypatel
Mickey Patel
The artist who’s into discipline
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
Are real artists not disciplined?
“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said.
We're never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. We’re human. So instead, we should aim for progress, even the smallest amount.
Daily Stoicx.comOur business in living is to become fluent with…life…and art can help this.” And elsewhere: “Art…is not self expression but self alteration.” Artmaking isn’t just something we do for the outcome; it’s something we do for the process, which includes the process of becoming the person with the taste, knowledge, sensitivity, agency, and ambition to... See more
Human existence is characterized by a perpetual dissatisfaction, a divine discontent, with who we are now, and what our world looks like now, compared to what it could be. Change is unpredictable; we rarely know how things will turn out in the end. But we still invite it, still seek it out.
Artmaking is, for many, an essential part of enacting these... See more
Artmaking is, for many, an essential part of enacting these... See more
No theory can develop without eventually encountering a wall, and practice is necessary for piercing this wall.
Michel Foucault • Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
Many of your friends will be afraid to give you harsh feedback. Remedy that by asking: “What’s the 10% I need to keep, no matter what? A followup question: “What’s the 10% I’ll cut, if I absolutely had to cut?” (Got this from my interview with Tim Ferris
David Perell • 31 Ways to Improve Your Writing
Editing tip. Feedback tip. Writing
In those days, I worked long and hard to develop my skill. But it remained locked away. For I was prey to the greed of winning. And this greed of winning led me into the bowels of fear. And a fearful man cannot fight. He can only flail.
Kapil Gupta • A Master's Secret Whispers
This is me with writing right now #epiphany
I swung to the opposite end of the spectrum of doing the bare minimum that I could to stay alive, not planning my weeks, not planning for the future. I stopped measuring myself against the ruler of productivity. I let go of the idea of productivity and I could feel my entire body exhale a sigh of relief.
kening zhu • Transcendence of a Productivity Addict
Full-time authors, for example, don’t actually type for 40 hours per week because they’d have little to say if they did. Instead, they spend most of their time collecting experiences. By the time they sit down to write, they’ve already experienced what they plan to write about, even if they aren’t entirely sure about what they’re going to say. By
... See moreDavid Perell • Daily Writing #39: Expression Is Compression
This is why maybe I can’t write right now. I have not much to say? I’m collecting experiences. But that’s not true because I haven’t really processed everything before what I’m experiencing now. I really enjoy the habit of writing in the morning. That should continue to be my creative hour