Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?