Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Don’t just express yourself. Discover yourself. Create questions, not answers. Explore whatever excites you most. If you’re not excited by it, your audience won’t be either.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
This supports my belief that creativity is about discovering yourself
When you’re gone, your work shows who you were. Not your intentions. Not what you took in. Only what you put out.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Would my work help Nirvaan? That's the filter
the luminescence of your mere existence — the corporate psychic
thecorppsychic.com
I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid,... See more
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
M: You see, my student, when a man lives As his personality, he is limited. And something within him recognizes that his personality is limited. And thus he must say and do things in order to make up for the deficiencies that he feels himself to possess. S: I see. M: Yes. In the midst of others, he will find himself needing to say things that pad
... See moreKapil Gupta • A Master's Secret Whispers
Seed:
In the midst of others, he will find himself needing to say things that pad his own image. He will feel the need to say things that will heighten his importance in the eyes of others.
Self image - why talking doesnt help you to feel better
Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
Fear and hope. How its linked. I resonate, ive lived in hope for years and tooks me years to admit
If you seek to be a legend in your field, it will help you to understand that you will have to be comfortable being an outcast. For you will not fit into this society. And if you do fit neatly into this society, there is no way that you will be a legend.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
I am defo an outcast
Our 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