1.) “Do what you love”. Moby says it so well in this Big Think clip, most importantly you can’t please others if you can’t please yourself first and foremost. Sometimes people just want to see what you yourself think is beautiful. John Lennon once said “When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” Basically you may not have a successful career but as long you do what you love you’ll be happy for it.
2.) “Nothing is original” so in the hopes of creating something new all you can do is broaden your research and vocabulary. I’m paraphrasing one of my tutors on that one. It’s important advice for me because I’ve seen people get bogged down into the myth of creating something original when the truth is that personal experience is what determines originality. It’s like when an artist gets obsessed with finding their own style when in actuality style is really there with them in that drawings and brush strokes already have a signature quality. Ted Brown said it well in by explaining that exploration is all about quantities. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY&feature=relmfu
3.) “Graduation does not mean you are at your prime”. In other words it is okay to make mistakes. I’ve been studying for so long that I didn’t realise how hard I was being on myself, I was rushing myself when really being a student is all about just letting loose and just swimming in the cool waters of education. It’s important not to rush that process and it also stunts creativity to do so.
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