Enjoy The Day
When you sit down to write, to be creative and you get something good, something you like…just enjoy it for the day. No need to rush to show everyone right away. Because if you show someone and they shrug their shoulders, now your day is ruined.
And you should simply enjoy the good feeling for a day. You’ve earned it.
Wait until the next day to pass it around and see if it holds up.
This and a lot more from Jerry Seinfeld on The Tim Ferris Show.
Synchronized Swimming
It’s hard to be a stand out synchronized swimmer.
Standing out isn’t the point of synchronized swimming.
The point is to be exactly like everyone else. That’s how you win.
But for everyone else, it’s not about being exactly like everyone on the team but rather sharing the same vision and using your differences, individual strengths and sharp edges to keep moving together.
Holding On To (Some Of) The Hard Part
As the story goes, the more success you achieve the more money comes in.
The more money comes in the more you can delegate the hard parts to others.
The cycle continues until you’ve delegated all the hard parts…because wasn’t that the goal all along?
Now you’re left with the easy parts. Victory.
Only you now realize that without something to push against (a hard part) the easy parts aren’t as fun, don’t have the same zest, aren’t as meaningful. You realize the hard parts were essential. The hard parts created tension and strain and pain that gave way to joy and release.
I hope you make enough money to hire people to do a bunch of the stuff that you don’t like doing or aren’t very good at.
But be sure to hold on to some of the hard part for yourself.
Mediocre To Magic
New Hum Love playlist up on Spotify and Apple
This whole business is built around: when the music is played in that way and that singer hits those notes, something extra special happens.
If the extra special thing never happened there wouldn’t be a business.
And it doesn’t happen all the time. If it did it wouldn’t be extra special.
The difficult commitment as an artist is to accept the moments of mediocrity as a part of the journey to the magic.