Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Gift of Ignorance (1960)
I didn’t know what you couldn’t do. I didn’t deliberately set out to invent anything. It just seemed to me, ‘Why not?’ There is a great gift that ignorance has to bring to anything, you know. That was the gift I brought to [Citizen] Kane… ignorance.
Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Gift of Ignorance (1960)
The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
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Is everyone entitled to their opinion?
If we’re going to do great work, it means that some people aren’t going to like it. And if the people who don’t like it don’t have an impact on what happens to the work after it’s complete, the only recourse of someone doing great work is to ignore their opinion.
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Talent Evidently Matters
Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers was hugely eye-opening and motivating to me. It’s core message is that hard work is what actually determines success, not talent. This article doesn’t negate that message, but it does attempt to balance it some.
In fact, it would be nice if they [intellectual ability and the capacities that underlie it] weren’t important at all, because research shows that those factors are highly stable across an individual’s life span. But wishing doesn’t make it so.
Source: creativitypost.com
Self truth (and the best violinist in the world)
Until we’re honest with ourselves about what we’re going to master, there’s no chance we’ll accomplish it.
— Seth Godin, from Self truth (and the best violinist in the world)
