Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn’t a novelist, he was a typist.
After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.
Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don’t lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.
Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec.
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
Isn’t the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It’s not a bad thing to go back there. It’s the entire point.
I think that any time reality doesn’t match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
It’s easy to pretend expertise when there’s no data to contradict you.
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?
That’s your opportunity – to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there’s no reason to believe you’ll succeed at it tomorrow.
Listen to your fear but don’t obey it.
The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.