Toward the end of The War of Art, Steven Pressfield describes two opposing orientations of the artist and entrepreneur: Territorial vs. Hierarchical Orientation. Hierarchical Orientation: You define yourself by your place within a pecking order. You look to others to validate your efforts or calling. Territorial Orientation: You do the work for its own sake. Here are…
Creativity
Write Every Day
Well, with some exceptions, I try to write every day, and it’s easier that way . . . And I try to stop—to end the day, knowing where I am going to pick up. So when I come back to sit down at my desk again, I don’t think, “Oh, now, what the devil do…
The Two Fixed Mindsets
Have you heard of Carol Dweck’s research on mindset? It was popularized in her book by that title, Mindset. Here is her TED Talk on her research: I was blessed to have read about her research while studying education at the University of Notre Dame in 2004-2005. I also got to apply her work to…
NaNoBlogMo: Why Blog Every Day?
Seth Godin blogs every day. He says everyone should do this: Everyone should blog, even if it’s not under their own name, every single day. If you are in public, making predictions and noticing things, your life gets better, because you will find a discipline that can’t help but benefit you. (Source) Fred Wilson, a…
William Shakespeare: Artist or Entrepreneur?
Thriving artists are entrepreneurs. This isn’t something new that is made possible only by the Internet. Looking closely at the most well-known artists today, you start to realize they were not the lone geniuses sitting in a studio creating their masterpieces. In reading Jeff Goins’s Real Artists Don’t Starve, you start to see example after…
