“Never stop trying to lower your hit rate.” — Mike Johnston
“reality leaves a lot to the imagination…” — John Lennon
In a post titled “Business Model,” Shelley said (among lots of other good things),
My business model, since that’s so important to have, is that whatever I do in the future, I want to adopt Denise’s ‘how much do I love that’ filter for my own professional efforts; whenever and however possible.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t always work, but one can decide to live more simply and even if you’re doing work you don’t love, you can do work that doesn’t require that you focus your entire being on the job.
In the comments, Doug pointed to a brilliant post by Mike Johnston that added more brightly colored surface area to the beautiful bubbles they were blowing. Mike said,
What these straight-A kids wanted was for me to set the terms of their success for them. They wanted me to set up the hoop so they could jump through it for me. They wanted to be told how they could be certain of success. It was what they encountered everywhere else. But what I wanted was for them to set up their own hoop, or, better yet, look askance at the hoop and go, “Nah, not today,” and wander off somewhere and see what they could find. The fact is, you need to fail a lot if you want to succeed as an artist.
