Renee De Four

What artists NEED to do is work on their craft, build a body of work, and show that work to people. And there are better options for showing your work than social media. Having a website is a good start. Doing PR and having an email list is even better.

You know, tools, methods, and systems - they’re all a reflection of your thinking. So without understanding the underlying principles, without understanding why things work, they won’t save you.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

My ears pricked up when Giles Mcmullen suggested that while reading you close the book after every page & write down everything you remember.

“In a world where you are constantly asked to be ‘committed,’ it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.”

~ Tom Hodgkinson

Outliner means that every single piece of text you jot down is a bullet point that can be collapsed.

So let’s generalize this and say that retirement without doing what excites you is not a good retirement. What we actually need to understand here is the different perceptions of retirement: To some retirement means sitting in Florida and staring at a wall, to others it’s hang gliding in Tahiti, and to some it simply means not having to work.