1. Jack
Canfield quote, “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” If
something terrifies me, I typically sprint flat-out toward it, and that has
served me well, both professionally and personally.
But everyone
gets scared, and I sometimes have to remind myself to remain brave when I’ve
taken enough steps toward a goal that I can’t turn back, and feel like the
floor has fallen out from underneath me.
I try to live in
a space of bravery in every aspect of my life: creative, professional, familial,
and in my friendships. Being brave means being present and willing to give of yourself
regardless of result.
Remaining brave
has helped me push toward those goals through paralyzing crises of confidence.
(P. 432)
2. I
spent the next decade visiting every set I could, shadowing every director I
knew, and several I didn’t know, to learn about the craft I was so deeply passionate
about.
There are no
radical creative choices that do not carry with them an inherent risk of
equally radical failure. You cannot do anything great without aggressively
courting your own limits and the limits of your ideas.
There is nothing
more powerful than failure to reveal to you what you are truly capable of.
Avoiding risk of failure means avoiding transcendent creative leaps forward.
You can’t have one without the other. (P. 432-433)
3. I
tried to take on an approach of saying no to everything that doesn’t energize
me personally or creatively.
~over time,
those commitments cannibalize my creative time and keep me from reaching my
personal goals.
Marie Kondo
method: “Discard [say no to] everything that does not spark joy.” (P. 434-435)
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Reference
Ferriss, Timothy. Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from
the Best in the World (p. 432). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
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