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“A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options—one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals.”
—Indian proverb
Josh Waitzkin, the chess prodigy turned world-champion-martial artist, has faced and beaten the world’s best.
And at the highest levels of competition, there are always dirty players. Waitzkin encountered them in his chess career as a fifteen-year-old.
Read MoreThe creative process is anything but obvious—a truth that the outside world can never truly understand. The daily struggle. The adrenaline. The second-guessing. The blood, sweat, and joy.
The myth of the genius artist and the flash of insight is just that, a myth.
It’s only part of the story.
As a creator, you know that the creative process is never just one thing. It’s never just insight, or just hard work. The creative process is made up of intervals, like breathing in and out.
Read MoreIndifference.
It’s one of our greatest fears as professional creators. We pour our heart and soul into our work, and gather the courage to share it.
And the response is…silence.
Non-response.
Crickets.
The opposite of indifference is remarkability.
Remarkability is the quality of work that gets people talking. It’s when people feel compelled to share their experience of your work with others.
But how can we make remarkable work? I want to share with you two ways.
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