The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

by Seth Godin

You can risk being wrong

muse.

Andy Warhol listened to the same song hundreds of times in a row to desensitize himself to audio.

I need this desensitization to audio.

The fact that people are artists in only one part of their lives is more proof that art isn’t something you’re born with. Art is an effort, an opportunity to devote enormous emotion and energy in a specific direction. It means that you care, not that you’re a loner or a loon.

Writer’s block isn’t hard to cure. Just write. Write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better.

Do it every day. Every single day. Not a diary, not fiction, but analysis. Clear, crisp, honest writing about what you see in the world. Or want to see. Or teach (in writing). Tell us how to do something.

Write like you talk. Often.

“What did you do and why did you do it?”

the people with more leverage than you do are making better art.