Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today’s society is an instinct to produce.
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you’ll need later.
If you’re going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won’t waste time doing it over.
If you don’t require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.
If you take action, you will be judged. There’s no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.
If I fail more than you do, I win.
At the heart of art is learning to see.
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that’s where charisma comes from, from the leading.
If you want to be a leader, go lead.
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
It’s clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It’s fear about fear, fear that means nothing.