Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Inspiration is not receiving information. Inspiration is applying what you’ve received. People think that if they keep reading articles, browsing books, listening to talks, or meeting people, they’re going to suddenly get inspired. But constantly seeking inspiration is anti-inspiring. You have to pause the input and focus on your output. For every
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make art not content and the art of writing
Inspiration and application
Within disappointment is great knowledge, if you have the courage to look at your life beyond the perspective of your ego, the part of you that is so intent on seeking evidence to affirm its perceived inadequacy.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
The child who twirls in the rain has no purpose for doing it. The child who runs through the field does not run to get somewhere. The running and the jumping and the playing is not done for meaning or purpose. It is an expression of the elation within. It is not done For joy. It is done Out Of joy.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
This is pure art
Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby. Everything I have ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am who I am today precisely because of what I have made and what it has made me into.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
Being smart means thinking things through. It means trying to fnd the real answer, not the easiest answer.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
the art of writing and make art not content
Think things througb dont look for the easy answer
So look around at those existing ideas in the world. You can imitate them and still be offering something valuable and unique.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
You can still be unique.
work as childhood conditioned self-worth
I’ve observed a lot of work trauma as rooted in relationships to our efforts in childhood. our relationship to work is tied to ways in which we felt safe and able to express our creativity, or not.
from a young age, we’re conditioned to equate our work to self-worth — trying hard enough and doing enough... See more
I’ve observed a lot of work trauma as rooted in relationships to our efforts in childhood. our relationship to work is tied to ways in which we felt safe and able to express our creativity, or not.
from a young age, we’re conditioned to equate our work to self-worth — trying hard enough and doing enough... See more
Kening Zhu • feeling safe in creative work & business — kening zhu
On the airplane, we are told to secure our oxygen masks before we help another with their oxygen mask. This is beautifully symbolic. For the world teaches us exactly the opposite. And it is for this reason that man suffocates in a world filled with oxygen.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
Look after yourself first
When a musician covers someone else’s song, they reveal their own warped perspective, since we know what the original sounds like. Because of this, performing a cover song is actually a great way to defne who you are as an artist. When a musician writes a new song that imitates someone else’s song, almost nobody notices the similarity. People don’t
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