Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
– Scott Adams
Whether you’re a novelist, musician, software developer, painter, poet, designer, or any other kind of creative, you probably know what it feels like to have “that time of the month”. You cramp up and buckle down for the storm that [...]

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
– e.e. cummings
It’s the best and the worst advice: Just Be Yourself.
Worried about your job interview later today? Don’t [...]

(Warning: Spoilers ahead. :)
Fiction often pays truth a visit. Great stories expand your reality, encourage you to think about the world in new ways, and even provide inspiring role models. Whether you draw your inspiration from real-life strangers or imaginary icons, it all comes down listening to the voices that improve your results.
Rhett Butler is, [...]

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
– George Gissing
Wow. That girl who just walked over to the frozen food section is [...]

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
– Howard Thurman
Life is meant to be an adventure. If your life is anything less than interesting and inspiring to other people, you’re doing something [...]

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
– Billy Joel

You aren’t attractive enough. You aren’t smart enough. You aren’t cool enough. You aren’t man enough. Your idea won’t work. You’re too short. You’re too tall. You’re too chunky. You don’t have enough money. I [...]

I’ve travelled all over the world, from New York to Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo. I’ve had the privilege of working with brilliant minds. A few years ago I learned French, and mastered the language well enough to speak in horrible slang with a fully authentic accent. I bought my first house [...]

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller
Get good grades. Get a degree from a respectable university. Get a good job. Work hard. Become a respectable employee. Save for retirement. Meet a life partner in your early-to-mid 20’s. Go out for two or three years. Get married. Buy a starter home in [...]