Suddenly your work starts to get noticed. Now you are working more on your own, making more of the difference between your work and what influenced it.
DTC Essential Oil brand: It’s time for essential oils to have a glow-up. A great DTC play would be to make them feel cool, curated, and quality-controlled, removing the need to ask your weird aunt who works for an essential oil MLM scheme or step foot in the overwhelming supplement aisles of a Whole Foods.
Criticizing is fast and easy. Creating is slow and difficult.
The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce.
Anyone can tear down someone else's work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.
When you’re feeling small, remind yourself this is the artist’s struggle and find comfort in Anna Quindlen’s words: Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbirdand A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, i... See more