Go beyond the cover page and don't be misled by the title.Here are a few notes:1. Climb your own family tree."If you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you'll choke. Instead, chew on one thinker-writer, artist, activist, role model-you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people that thinker loved, and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you build your tree, it's time to start your own branch."2. Show up to your thing EVERY DAY.3. Dress for the job you want... and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.4. Add something to the world that only you can add.5. Do the work you want to see done.6. Have an analog and digital stations in your workspace. (Have a workspace!)7. Practice productive procrastination."The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life." - Jessica Hische8. Take time to be bored."Take time to mess around. Get lost. Wander. You never know where it's going to lead you."I laughed so hard when I read items 7 and 8. These are one of the weirdest ideas I've ever read but it made sense to me. When I procrastinate, I read a book or write. And being bored has led me to more work. Really nice. :)9. Connect your passions.10. Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts. Use it.I was more free to write in my blog when I only had a few followers who are also strangers to me. But now that my friends follow me, it became more difficult. So yes, enjoy obscurity.11. Give your secrets away. *Cue Secrets by One Republic* But don't share everything.12. Learn to code.13. Enjoy solitude and temporary captivity.Been doing this for a long time now and it has helped me a lot :)14. Don't go looking for validation from external sources.15. Keep a praise file but use it sparingly.16. Get a calendar. Fill the boxes with a big fat X. Don't break the chain.17. Also, keep a logbook.The logbook contains the list of the things you do every day - what project you worked on, where you went to lunch, what movie you saw.18. Don't make excuses for not working - make things with the time, space, and materials you have, right now."Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want - that just kills creativity." - Jack White

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