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That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
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Fake it ’til you make it.
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It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes:
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
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My favorite cartoonist, Lynda Barry, she has this saying: “In the digital age, don’t forget to use your digits! Your hands are the original digital devices.”
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Artists aren’t magicians. There’s no penalty for revealing your secrets.
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Kurt Vonnegut said it best: “There’s only one rule I know of: goddamn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
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As Flaubert said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
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The thing is: art takes a lot of energy to make. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.
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Marry well.
It’s the most important decision you’ll ever make.
And marry well doesn’t just mean your life partner — it also means who you do business with, who you befriend, who you choose to be around.
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Devoting yourself to something means shutting out other things.
What makes you interesting isn’t just what you’ve experienced, but also what you haven’t experienced.
The same is true when you make art: you must embrace your limitations and keep moving.
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ken ."You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
Use your hands - do good work (put it where people can see it) - be nice - be boring (it's the only way to get work done) - creativity is subtraction - Don't wait until you know you are to make things (dramaturgy - all the worlds a stage - fake it to you make it) -
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Heather FriendIf we're still doing awards, this one should be up for best blog post of the year. http://t.co/QMc45xsq remember this one? Read it again.
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Jim Tiffin JrIf we're still doing awards, this one should be up for best blog post of the year. http://t.co/QMc45xsq remember this one? Read it again.
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sean williamsIf we're still doing awards, this one should be up for best blog post of the year. http://t.co/QMc45xsq remember this one? Read it again.
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he German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
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In my experience, it’s in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
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, as in, pretend to be making something until you actually make something. I love that idea.
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I think the same thing is true of our idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.
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Your job is to collect ideas. The best way to collect ideas is to read. Read, read, read, read, read. Read the newspaper. Read the weather. Read the signs on the road. Read the faces of strangers. The more you read, the more you can choose to be influenced by.
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Steal things and save them for later. Carry around a sketchpad. Write in your books. Tear things out of magazines and collage them in your scrapbook.
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2. Don’t wait until you know who you are to start making things.
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In my experience, it’s in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
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You’re ready. Start making stuff.
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Ask any real artist, and they’ll tell you the truth: they don’t know where the good stuff comes from. They just show up to do their thing. Every day.
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I love this phrase. There’s two ways to read it: Fake it ‘til you make it, as in, fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want, etc. Or, fake it til’ you make it, as in, pretend to be making something until you actually make something. I love that idea.
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Write the book you want to read
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The best way to find the work you should be doing is to think about the work you want to see done that isn’t being done, and then go do it.
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So my advice is to find a way to bring your body into your work. Draw on the walls. Stand up when you’re working. Spread things around the table.
Use your hands
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“Do good work and put it where people can see it.”
It’s a two step process.
Step one, “do good work,” is incredibly hard. There are no shortcuts. Make stuff every day. Fail. Get better.
Step two, “put it where people can see it,” was really hard up until about 10 years ago. Now, it’s very simple: “put your stuff on the internet.”
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People love it when you give your secrets away, and sometimes, if you’re smart about it, they’ll reward you by buying the things you’re selling.
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When you open up your process and invite people in, you learn. I’ve learned so much from the folks who submit poems to the Newspaper Blackout site. I find a lot of things to steal, too. It benefits me as much as it does them.
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So my advice: learn to code. Figure out how to make a website. Figure out blogging. Figure out Twitter and all that other stuff. Find people on the internet who love the same things as you and connect with them. Share things with them.
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Any goal you want to accomplish: get yourself a calendar. Break the task down into little bits of time. Make it a game.
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Jim OlverWe spend a lot of time in Business School being analytical and focusing on mastery. Here's another take, more consistent with Design Thinking.
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damien smithblackout poems
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HOW TO STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST (AND 9 OTHER THINGS NOBODY TOLD ME)
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The classroom is a wonderful, if artificial place: your professor gets paid to pay attention to your ideas, and your classmates are paying to pay attention to your ideas.
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