PermalinkWriting is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
PermalinkIf you’re looking for the next big thing, and you’re looking where everyone else is, you’re looking in the wrong place.
PermalinkInspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get the work done. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lighting to strike you in the brain, you’re not going to make an awful lot of work.
PermalinkAnything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
PermalinkIf you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn’t very vital.
PermalinkWe know it’s out there. Our best art hints at it. Poetry leans into it. Great sex makes it sticky and palpable. True spiritual awakenings rest at its feet. Meditation sometimes lets you hear it breathe.
People always ask, “What is your greatest failure?” I always have the same answer – We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!
— Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners
Jim Coudal is a truly inspiring character, with a unique perspective on business and creativity. His company, Coudal Partners, is not only a well respected design agency, but has also developed many successful products and services, most notably The Deck advertising network, as well as Field Notes notebooks. He often stresses the importance of writing, as well as letting go of the fear of failure.
PermalinkPermalinkChange is a wave you can ride or drown under, but you can’t just sit on the beach, eating Dippin’ Dots and listening to Skynyrd. That’s not how it works. So, even if you’re mostly secure right now, and even if you’re mostly doing what you like, just think about what a big change would mean and how you’d ride it.
Real Advice Hurts
Merlin, suggests we actually get off our ass and go, do, create, instead of just reading about going, doing, and/or creating.
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