Your art places you in the world.*
Nick Cave
Learning is a journey of incompetence.**
Seth Godin
First, the good news:
If you have identified your “art,”
You will never be lost,
You know what to do.
But it won’t come easy,
All at once – beautifully completed;
It will mean mess, failure, being ignored.
Be of good heart:
This calls for honing, not giving up.
(Name your “art,” being general at first because it won’t lead to just one thing— then name the possibilities.^)
*Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan’s Faith, Hope and Carnage;
**Seth Godin’s blog: Don’t steal the revelation;
^It is unlikely that your job title describes your art.
THIN|SILENCE 