You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Choose your customers, choose your future.

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.