Erikc Perez-Perez
@perez
Chicago photographer.
Erikc Perez-Perez
perezx.com
Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol
“Finding the way, is the way.”
– Marcus Aurelius
Instead of asking people for advice and looking for the average of all the advice you get, you should probably be taking bigger, bolder bets.
If the average is failure, you don't want to implement average advice.
If the average is failure, you don't want to implement average advice.
To grow your business, you have to make big bets
Worry Is Sin
The Manifesto
Worry is sin. Worry is blasphemy. It is doubt against reality, against creation. Each anxious thought spits in GOD's face. Your fear is faithlessness. A cancer of the soul that spreads until it paralyzes and kills. Worry is to wage war against the divine order. Against what must be. Every second spent in anxiety is a sin. B
... See moreI asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at before). “Greatness is overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a form of extremism, and it comes with extreme vices that I have no interest in. Steve Jobs was a jerk. Bob Dylan is a jerk.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
So the point is to take the work seriously but you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a riff about this in Stephen Pressfield’s War of Art, where he talks about how amateurs are too precious with their work: “The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make him choke. The seeming detachmen
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