Neil Gaiman gave the commencement address this year at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.
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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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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.
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Best advise I got when I was trying to make Brothers McMullen. ‘There are two types of pain. The pain of regret and the pain of hard work.’
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