A beautifully written piece by Milton Glaser on life, wisdom, creativity. It’s a powerful and challenging collection of ideas to which I often return in search of inspiration. You can find the 2-pages PDF here, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I added below 2 of my favourite paragraphs from his speech: “I discovered that [...]
“Market research is what you do when your product isn’t any good [...] Every significant invention,” Land once said, “must be startling, unexpected and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.” Thirty years later, when a [...]
The very best people are usually insecure and fear being ‘found out’. This fear is the engine of self-improvement. “The very best people are usually insecure and fear being ‘found out’. And I mean the very best people. I once asked David Ogilvy when he finally felt secure about himself and his reputation. ‘About five [...]
I’m just about to finish Hugh’s book – Ignore Everybody and 39 other keys to Creativity – an awesome, profound piece of work, which is giving me lots of things to think about and ideas to take into consideration. I read this paragraph which I would very much like to share with you. Here it [...]
“And if you don’t see yourself as particularly creative, that’s not reality, that’s a self-imposed limitation. Only you can decide whether you want to carry that around with you forever. Life is short.” Ignore Everybody and 39 other keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
Here’s a good one: “We generally resist change until the pain of making a switch becomes less than the pain of remaining in our current situation. To break the cycle, the fear of the unknown has to become less than the stale acceptance of the current situation. 2 ways to make this happen: increase the [...]