Let us Start off on the Right Foot By making some Wrong Decisions...
Steal.
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
Devour films, music,books, paintings, poems, photographs,conversations,dreams,trees,architecture,street signs,clouds, light and shadows...
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your Soul.
If you do this, your work(and theft)will be authentic.
Authenticity is invaluable.
Originality is Non-Existent.
Don't bother concealing your thievery - Celebrate it if you feel like it.
Remember what Jean-Luc Godard said:
'It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.'
Imagine
Every One wants an exciting Life, but most people are afraid to take the Bull by the Horns.
So they take an Easy Option for an Exciting Life.
They Live their excitement through other people.
By aligning themselves with famous rebels, a little bit of glamour rubs off on them.
They Imagine they're like John Lennon,Ernest Hemingway,George Best, Liam Gallagher, Lenny Bruce,Janis Joplin, Damien Hirst,Andy Warhol, Johnny Depp...
The Difference being, these people when faced with a decision took the outrageous One, not knowing were it might lead them, but knowing that the safe decision had danger written all over it...
Are You Being Reasonable?
Salomon Brothers, the well known New York Investment House, met with prospective clients not once a month, or once a day...But Three 3 Times a Day.
That is Unreasonable...
But it Works...
Most people are Reasonable, that's why they only do reasonably well.
~'The Reasonable man adapts himself to the World. The Unreasonable Man adapts the World to Himself. All progress depends upon the Unreasonable man.'~George Bernard Shaw
Do It, Then Fix It as you Go!
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually Do it.
Instead of Waiting for perfection, run with what You've got, and fix it as You go...
Beat This!
A Young Man worked as a runner for an advertising firm.
One day he said to his manager,
'I'm leaving. I'm going to be a Drummer.'
The Manager said, 'I didn't know you played the drums.'
He replied, 'I don't, but I'm going to.'
A few years later that young man played in a band with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce, and it was called Cream, and the Young Man's name was Ginger Baker.
He became what he wanted to become before he knew he could do it.
He had a Goal.
Simply Change Your Life.
The World is what You Think of It.
So Think of it Differently and Your Life will change.
Final Thoughts.
For a Creative person starting out on a Career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever...
Think about Money.
It's Honest...
I stole this from Paul Arden.
He in turn stole it from Jim Jarmusch
