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And with that, Good night folks!
“Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work.”
Chuck Close on creativity
But the more we define “success” as that which appeals to as many people as possible, the more we forgive dumb things because they went “viral,” the more we monetize stupid bullshit because we’re at a brief, fleeting moment in our culture where we’ve convinced ourselves that’s what matters…
The beauty of the Web is that it belongs to you, and me, and to each of us, individually. What are other people doing on the Internet? Who the hell cares? I’ll just find people who like doing what I’m doing and talk to them. Is that the best way to make money on the Web? Probably not. But that’s their problem: Not ours.
“Do one thing at a time.”
Seriously, Internet. Why do you mess with me?!
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’
Ever so often you just find yourself back at the crossroads and it’s then that the many books and words of wisdom come back to offer some comfort.
It’s poetry when a couple of those lines intersect smoothly:
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reminds me of one of the three central themes of Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. - Steve Jobs
Fact: when you’ve nothing to lose, you follow your instincts. And, when you do they magically turn out exactly the way it’s always meant to be. Now that’s a reassuring thought.
As for the future: when you’ve nothing to lose, be bold.
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. - Ernest Hemingway
Amen.
Here’s to the Crazy Ones by Jack Kerouac.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
