Check out Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. I was introduced to this collection of thoughts a few years ago, and I still like to come back and read it when I need a little motivation.
Some of my favorites:
Allow events to change you.
You
have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that
happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for
growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be
changed by them.
Forget about good.
Good
is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not
necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or
may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll
never have real growth.
Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy
is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as
beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take
the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
Be careful to take risks.
Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.
I have this secret stash of places I go when I don't have any more ideas . . . it's probably time I let them all be free. How about you?
Still searching,
Annie
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