Power Through the Transition
My friend John gave me a new mantra for fall: power through the transition. He was talking about surfing, but I thought it was awesome life advice.
stick with your dreams
The Creative Leap and Chasm
When it’s time to release your work from the hidden space where you toiled into the outer world of humans with eyes and preferences and opinions, there’s a great moment of tension. The tension is where fear and excitement grapple with each other. Despite their differences, both ask what if? . . .
Digging Deep Days
You won’t learn anything from the projects you didn’t do. And you won’t grow by avoiding hard goals. We only know what we are capable of when we push ourselves to go, do, and be.
When No One Gives a Shit
Start with the assumption that almost no one gives a shit. It will piss you off and upset you. Then it will set you free.
Don’t Panic Sell Your Dreams
What I find over and over again is the struggle behind the curtain easily gets forgotten while watching the performance. We see the expert execution on the stage, not the rehearsals and rewrites.
To the Moon
While visiting the Kennedy Space Center last fall, I was struck by the U.S.’s sheer determination in the 1960s to achieve results that defied the odds. To send a man to the moon, which no country had ever done before, must have seemed to many Americans at the time like …