rob hardy

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – never lie to yourself.”

—Paulo Coelho

“Things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. When you understand that, you abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.” - Leonard Cohen

When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.

Old paradigms die hard. Puking, sweating, convulsing every vestige of What No Longer Works into a heaping pile of shitty compost that will eventually grow something new and beautiful, but not until you’re scraped raw of every notion of what that might be.

Plenty of the “creator economy” offers simply monetize a feeling of possibility rather than a concrete outcome.

And, technically, nothing wrong with that, as long as we all know what the game is.

Humans aren’t meant to excavate their inner feelings until they find their “true self.” We become ourselves in relation, not through introspection.

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”... See more

yesterday a friend said: “doesn’t freelancing make you feel simultaneously self-actualized and completely behind in life?”

and yeah. that’s exactly it.

freelancing makes me feel free, and terrified, and proud, and like a failure.

all at once. every day.