You don’t have to be rich, you
don’t have to be famous, and you don’t have to have a fancy
résumé or a degree from an expensive school. Online,
everyone—the artist and the curator, the master and the
apprentice, the expert and the amateur—has the ability to
contribute something.
“The fellow-pupil can help more than
the master because he knows less. The difficulty we want
him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it
so long ago he has forgotten.”
“Flow is the
feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily
and sub-daily updates that remind people you exist. Stock
is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as
interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s
what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly
but surely, building fans over time.”
“When shown an object, or given a
food, or shown a face, people’s assessment of it—how much
they like it, how valuable it is—is deeply affected by what
you tell them about it.”Paul bloom
Bios are not the place to practice your creativity. We
all like to think we’re more complex than a two-sentence
explanation, but a two-sentence explanation is usually what
the world wants from us. Keep it short and sweet.
Keep your balance. You have to remember that your work
is something you do, not who you are. This is especially hard
for artists to accept, as so much of what they do is personal.
Keep close to your family, friends, and the people who love
you for you, not just the work.
Be ambitious. Keep yourself busy. Think bigger. Expand
your audience. Don’t hobble yourself in the name of
“keeping it real,” or “not selling out.” Try new things.
You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish
enough to get your work done.
As my wife said to me, “If you never go to work,
you never get to leave work.”
“Anyone who isn’t embarrassed
of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough,”
writes author Alain de Botton.
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