“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald If a billionaire walked up to you on the street and said that he knew the secret to success, what would you guess his secret…
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The Key to Transformation
The key to transformation might be surprising, and might require us to look within. “We make self-doubt mean something negative about our talent, our ideas,our creativity. What we’re capable of. Not true. In order for us to achieve our goals,we have to peel off all the stuff that is not us first. The discord of the…
The Cure for Anxiety & Overdoing… the 7″ Plate℠
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final ~ Rainer Maria Rilke We can cure our anxiety by keeping our energetic exertion to levels well below what we can handle when we are in a manic, “go, go, go” mode. My anxiety is a 6′ tall, green monster…
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Getting into Your Creative Work
Getting started with your creative work requires the willingness to make the first mark. “Just wrote a long piece that is not awful. Given the times, it feels like Lourdes. I started w/one image, wrote 1 okay sentence after another. Took paragraphs bird by bird, till I had a shitty 1st draft. Then took out the…
Study (and Copy) the Masters
Imitating—copying—is how humans learn. As we study and copy from the masters, we learn our own rhythms, our own lines, our own meters of meaning. “Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.” ~ Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You…
How to Get Unstuck: The Art of Deliberate Decision-Making
If you want to know how to get unstuck, you have to be willing to look at how you make decisions. “Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision.”― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana I selected a corner table in a café off Avenue Montaigne in Paris’s 8th arrondissement. I had spent the…
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