from Ignore Everybody, And 39 Other Keys to Creativity, Hugh MacLeod
“Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you….You don’t know if your idea is any good the moment it’s created. Neither does anybody else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is….And asking close friends never works quite as well as you hope, either. It’s not that they deliberately want to be unhelpful. It’s just that they don’t know your world one millionth as well as you know your world, no matter how hard they try, no matter how hard you try to explain.”
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Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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Is someone having a rough morning over there with creative block?
Apr 15th, 2011 / 11:56 am
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.” Ken Robinson
Apr 15th, 2011 / 12:20 pm
from Ignore Everybody, And 39 Other Keys to Creativity, Hugh MacLeod
“Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you….You don’t know if your idea is any good the moment it’s created. Neither does anybody else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is….And asking close friends never works quite as well as you hope, either. It’s not that they deliberately want to be unhelpful. It’s just that they don’t know your world one millionth as well as you know your world, no matter how hard they try, no matter how hard you try to explain.”
Apr 15th, 2011 / 12:31 pm
Graphic Design is like chasing turkeys.
Apr 15th, 2011 / 2:25 pm
…usually for payment
Apr 15th, 2011 / 2:26 pm
Why is it like chasing chickens? Sorry if this is obvious to native English speakers. Is it like a saying?
Is it to wander aimlessly, but with great purpose? (got this from an online urban dictionary).
Apr 15th, 2011 / 6:15 pm
A lot of fun!
Apr 17th, 2011 / 5:31 am
More like processing them…
Apr 25th, 2011 / 10:56 am
whatever happened to the video of this talk?
Jun 2nd, 2011 / 2:38 pm