We all need an outlet, somewhere to escape to where we think of nothing else but the outlet and if we’re lucky, all of our ideas percolate in the back of our heads. And if they are not percolating in the back of our mind, you still need that outlet. That outlet should not be a side hustle or a money making venture. It shouldn’t be something that focuses you to learn something new. It…
I enjoy reading the Gaping Void – it’s a great mix of word and art that drives the point home, all day, every day. But their recent article on Soft Skills – re-ignited that argument that has always been raging inside of me – Soft skills, hard, skills, medium-baked skills, school educated skills, street skills, etc, etc. They are all skills, you don’t need to differentiate them, it’s time to move on and understand that…
The easiest thing to have happen to us is to get frustrated. We try something, we mess up, we get frustrated. We put all our our time into making something perfect and the last piece breaks, we get frustrated. We write all this incredible code only to be hit with one final brick wall that is insurmountable, we get frustrated. Getting frustrated is easy, it’s the go to emotion, the first emotion we feel when…
Or… You don’t understand. You don’t get get it. We can’t do it that way. That’s not how it’s supposed to be done. Everyone else is doing it this way. We don’t have time for that. We can’t just change what we’re doing. All things said before amazing works of art were created.
You won’t find them in your phone, or a picturesque landscape or that beautiful sunset on the beach. There will always be something off to why you were not able to achieve that perfect level of inner enlightenment. The sand was a little too dry, in drizzled while you were hiking, all the ads got in your way. Ideas don’t come from doing nothing. They come from doing something, from seeing what might work and…