Bustr Bensn

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June 2010

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If you’re waiting for a boss or an editor or a college to tell you that you do good work, you’re handing over too much power to someone who doesn’t care nearly as much as you do.

We spend a lot of time organizing and then waiting for the system to pick us, approve of us and give us permission to do our work.

Feedback is important, selling is important, getting the market to recognize your offering and make a sale—all important. But there’s a difference between achieving your goals and realizing your work matters.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you’re worthy.

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Seth’s Blog: Validation is overrated

just do what matters to you.

(via heyamberrae)

I find it a little eerie just how programmed we are to look for permission to do things.  Even more drastic is that sometimes we wait for commands from above in order to do things that we want to do.  This universe is run by monkeys.  Just do what you want to do! (Easier said than done.)

Jun 27, 2010187 notes
Turritopsis nutricula → en.wikipedia.org

bestofwikipedia:

Turritopsis nutricula or immortal jellyfish is a hydrozoan whose medusa, or jellyfish, form can revert to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. It is the only known case of a metazoan capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage. It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation. (via Patrick Filler)

Can it just go back and forth? Is that how you reach immortality?

Jun 22, 201015 notes
Jun 21, 2010146 notes
“We do not need men like Proust and Joyce; men like this are a luxury, an added fillip that an abundant culture can produce only after the more basic literary need has been filled. This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not transcend the limits of their age, but, working within the times, bring what is peculiar to the moment to glory. We need great artists who are willing to accept restrictions, and who love their environments with such vitality that they can produce an epic out of the Protestant ethic.” —

John Updike, writing to his parents in 1951 at the age of 19. (New York Times) (via draw)

Of course the age needs the people who work within the confines of the age, but eternity needs people who transcend time and the Protestant ethic.  Still, this quote resonates with the times.

Jun 21, 20102 notes
“If you’re creative and technical, you’re unstoppable.” —

Robert Rodriguez (via ronenreblogs)

Robert Rodriguez speaks the truth.

The cornerstone of the topherchris Guide to Being Happy and Successful is to just make shit. JMS®.

If you’re even just a little bit creative and a little bit technical, you have very few excuses for not making shit and having fun with it and getting better and then finding your role in the universe and then getting introduced to people who are much more attractive than you are.

(via topherchris, 1000reasonsnottostartmakingart, roomthily, shooshee)

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