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"A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places," said Paul Gardner. A book is never finished. But at a certain point you stop writing it and go on the next thing. A film is never cut perfectly, but at a certain point you let go and call it done. That is a normal part of creativity--- letting go. We always do the best that we can by the light we have to see by.

A painting is never finished

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop ---an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole. Instead of creating freely and allowing errors to reveal themselves later as insights, we often get mired in getting the details right. We correct our originality into a uniformity that lacks passion and spontaneity. "Do not fear mistakes," Miles Davis told us. "There are none."

Do not fear mistakes

I believe we derive our highest sense of self-worth when engaged in acts of creation. Tapping into the well of creativity and merging that with a sense of purpose, bringing something to life out of a void of nothingness, these bring us to our highest points of being. Creation is the marriage of unfettered thought and consistent application.

Chidozie Akakuru
"You cannot be a great musician if you don't know how to listen. " | Gary Bartz | Louisiana Channel
"You cannot be a great musician if you … 

“Ideas are never abandoned. They’re always in the compost heap, and they always turn up. To use a gardening metaphor, I’m always in there with a pitchfork turning things over to see whether the time is right for something to become fertilizer—’Oh, that idea. I can finally use that now.’”
Musician Suzanne Vega on doing whatever it takes to get the song done

Don’t describe it, show it. That’s what I try to teach all young writers—take it out! Don’t describe a purple sunset, make me see that it is purple.

“The more you make, the more you can take away from and truly find yourself. You make a lot, then keep the things you like. That’s how you find your voice”

"My point is that the craft of assembling language, and how it is presented, needs to transcend quotidian communicational efficiency. Text is never neutral but is shaped by the mode of its delivery."

Claire Bishop on the Superabundance of …

"The richest possibilities for research-based installation emerge when preexisting information is not simply cut and pasted, aggregated, and dropped in a vitrine but metabolized by an idiosyncratic thinker who feels their way through the world. Such artists show that interpretative syntheses need not be incompatible with a decentered subject and that an unforgettable story-image can also be a subversive counterhistory, packing all the more punch because imaginatively and artfully delivered."

Claire Bishop on the Superabundance of …

6 Habits of Super Learners

Read a lot
Reading is exercise for your mind. It allows us to roam the expanse of space, time, history, and offer a deeper view of ideas, concepts, emotions, and body of knowledge.

View learning as a process
Learning is a journey, not a destination. Keep mastering new principles, processes, worldviews, thinking models, etc.

Adopt a growth mindset
A growth mindset is a learning theory that revolves around the belief that you can improve intelligence, ability, and performance.

Teach others what you know
Learners retain 90% of what they learn when they explain/teach the concept to someone else, or use it immediately. The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to transfer it to another.

Take care of your brain
The health of your brain can significantly change how you record, process, and retrieve information. Eat foods that prevent cognitive decline: blueberries, leafy greens, whole grains, protein from fish and legumes, unsaturated fats.

Take short breaks, early and often
Downtime is crucial to retaining anything you learn. Taking breaks gives your brain time to recover, helps you learn better, and improves your retention rate.

6 Habits of Super Learners