How To Be Creative
Just finished reading Hugh MacLeod gapingvoid manifesto, How To Be Creative. I broke down his manifesto to the following quotes.
The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you.
It was so liberating to be doing something that didn’t have to impress anybody, for a change.
Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing.
90% of what separates successful people and failed people is time, effort, and stamina.
Nor can you bully a subordinate into becoming a genius.
A fancy tool just gives the second-rater one more pillar to hide behind. Which is why there are so many second-rate art directors with state-of-the-art Macintosh computers.
Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.
Never compare your inside with somebody else’s outside.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do.
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