The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say … - Scott Berkun

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After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

Scott Berkun

The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the hopes of pleasing them. This motivation is nice. And sometimes the end result is good. But often what happens in trying so hard to please other people, especially many other people, the result is mediocre.

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For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.

Cheese, Enabling, Kings, Modern, Song, Strong

It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.

Actually, Good, Ideas, Passion, Respect, Worry

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Firsts, Like, Notion, Perfection, Window

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Advice, Fun, Good, Known, Useless

It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.

Educational, Genuinely, People, Trying, Understand