I was reading an interview in Believer about my chosen movie director Steven Soderbergh. In it he said that success is like the whirlwind romance, that when it’s over you wonder if it ever really happened, and failure is like the house guest that will not leave… One could apply this thought to inspiration as well. The good idea falls from the sky after going through many bad ones or at least less good ones.
I think this is why as I’ve said before, it is so important to have your own personal creative work in addition to your job. I view what I do as a professional service that can be on occasion creative but most of the time you are jamming out the “perfectly adequate.”
I would very much like to get away from “perfectly adequate,” or at least raise the bar on it, but this is all a gradual lifelong process…
I feel inspired by a myriad of things I will never, ever use in the world of work.
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