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Your Aspirations and Values

For the startup of you, establishing a core idea to use as a career compass can be just as transformative. Before you have an external brand that people know you by, you need to have an internal brand you know yourself by. In other words, what do you care about? If you just have vague ideas, that's fine.

The Startup of You (Revised and Updated)
p.42

Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you're not.

It makes no sense to say you're not good at it. It's like saying, "I'm not good at being a monk." You are either living as a monk or you're not.

We tend to think of the artist's work as the output.

The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.

p.47

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