Category: Expectations
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Craft, plus
“Fashion is kinda a joke,” Virgil Abloh says to Carl Swanson for New York magazine. “I don’t get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it’s one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.” Jon…
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I dare you to hope
“[Virgil Abloh has] become such an inspiration to so many people. But also he made it look easy,” Eugene Rabkin says (37:53, emphasis added). It’s not. I think down the line, Virgil is going to be indirectly responsible for a lot of streetwear lines who came on the scene and then went out of business…
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Cruel optimism
“The persistence of the American Dream, Berlant suggests, amounts to a cruel optimism, a condition ‘when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your own flourishing.’ … Berlant tuned in to a wider sense of disaffection—the feeling among average voters that neither of these visions for change was really about them, or for them.…
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Acceptance mindset
Growth mindset is eating the world; taken to its extreme, it proposes complete freedom and responsibility. If you don’t change, then it’s your fault. That extreme is a trap just as sticky as a fixed mindset. There are some things that you’re probably not going to be able to change. You’re better off accepting and…
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Stone soup
This is a classic fable about a group of travellers showing up to a village with an empty pot. The villagers are unwilling to feed the travellers, so the travellers put a stone in the pot and boil water. The travellers offer to share their stone soup with some of the villagers, though the soup…
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Do it
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent van Gogh
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Strengthening brain connections
In The Source, Tara Swart covers the science of the law of attraction. Swart defines neuroplasticity as, “The power to create new pathways in the subconscious and conscious parts of our brain.” She writes: It’s important not to overcomplicate it. Everyday examples of neuroplasticity are all around us. When a colleague and leadership expert that…
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“If I were actually smart, then I would…”
… not be working this job. … be the person who’s my boss right now. … be making a lot more money. When framed like this, thoughts are an end point; because you’re not smart enough, you’re not going to do it. In other words, you can’t. That’s one way to appraise your work, self,…
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The present-promise gap
You and I constantly deal with promises. We make promises to ourselves, we make promises with other people, and other people make promises with us. It’s easy to believe promises that are very near to the present, especially if the person has constantly kept their promises. Correspondence: “Let me get back to you by the…
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Doubt as a driving force of creativity
One of the most difficult emotions to come to terms with is doubt; it’s also one of the most realistic ones. It’s the allure of faking it till you make it: you’re making a promise against your doubt with the hammer of reality, and trying to get more people to believe in you to drown…