“People got around Keith and they thought they were Keith”- Mick, talking about how people would ramp up their drug use because of how hard Keith could go.
You become like the people you’re around.
One differentiator I see between the upper and lower echelon of artists is this…
Artists in the upper echelon don’t take a break just because they experience some success from working hard. They go hard, get some wins, and keep going hard. The break come when necessary…but they don’t see taking a break as a reward for doing a great job.
Artists in the lower echelon often have a hard time sustaining a build because they think it’s a process of ramping up and then ramping down, up, down, up down. They see relaxing as a reward for their effort.
It’s a lot more likely you’ll become an upper echelon artist if you hang out with others who are at least acting like they are too in this way.
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