What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.