Creativity doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.*
Seth Godin

Refuse almost everything. Do almost nothing. But the things you do, do them all the way.**
Derek Sivers

It’s important to first learn
the domain, the field, the system, and we may start out
copying a lot, yet
the aim isn’t to replicate but to
bring something new – our peculiar rhyme – and to
lean into this.

That’s what our art requires of us. We show up and do it anyway, not because someone asked us but because our persistent heart tells us to.^

*Seth Godin’s The Practice;
**Derek Sivers’ Hell Yeah or No;
^Bernadette Jiwa’s The Story of Telling blog: Doing the Work Anyway.