TK
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TK
If you’re going to do high-level creative work, you have to accept the messiness of your initial creations, knowing that excellence is born from the sisters of patience and iteration.
The second you start condemning young and fragile ideas, you’re toast.
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Nick Foster • The Future Mundane - Core77
the story shape is structured around how they find, retrieve and finally master the quality in their life that has eluded them.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
How do I know if I’m being patient (a skill) or stubborn (a flaw)? They’re hard to tell apart without hindsight.
Morgan Housel • I Have A Few Questions
“You’ve hit your rock bottom, which means you’ve stopped falling. It’s only up from here!”
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
There are endless riffs on story shape – sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal explorations and excavations of an original tune. Often you may have to search long and hard to find it, but the tune – even in its absence – will be there. In music, poetry, film – arguably all art – digression merely confirms the archetype’s importance.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Robert McKee’s Story emphasizes that storytelling is governed by principles, not rules.