Here’s a series of quotes from a real thought leader – every one of which resonates with me. I’ll keep this page and refer back to it every time doubts about my ability to succeed creep in.
This isn’t self motivational stuff. Just a reminder there’s always somebody who will piss down our neck while telling us it’s raining.
Hugh Macleod is the originator of the phrase Global Microbrand (ref Brian Clark). We’ll use it a lot from now on.
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04 All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04 Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it.
It’s your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04 Never compare your inside with somebody else’s outside. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04 The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04 The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren’t even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago.
Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04 The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur.
That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you’re already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can’t help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 16. The world is changing. , 08-22-04 The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can’t. , 08-22-04 Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 2, 08-22-04 Diluting your product to make it more ‘commercial’ will just make people like it less. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 21. Selling out is harder than it looks., 08-22-04 It’s about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 23, 08-22-04 You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04 Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else’s voice but your own. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04 Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won’t. It’s that simple. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04 The best way to get approval is not to need it. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 27, 08-22-04 People who are ‘ready’ give off a different vibe than people who aren’t. Animals can smell fear; maybe that’s it.
The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it’s no longer about ‘becoming’. Suddenly it’s about ‘doing’.Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28. Power is never given. Power is taken., 08-22-04 Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04 The fact is, the old cliches work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; cliches are clean and tidy. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04 Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it’s managed well. People think all they need to do is endure one crazy, intense, job-free creative burst and their dreams will come true. They are wrong, they are stupidly wrong. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 3. Put the hours in., 08-22-04 If you have the creative urge, it isn’t going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact. Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
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