Why I started my newsletter
TLDR; I've learned by doing things the long hard stupid way so you don't have to.
Over the past 10+ years I've been working in the creative field, running experiments, and failing at a lot of other things. Today, I'm starting a newsletter to share some of my learnings with you. I hope to make it fun, teach you a few random things and include some learnings from some of my favorite people.
I’ve had the pleasure of learning many of my lessons the long hard stupid way, putting a lot of extra time in in the shadows just to be average or occasionally great. I hope you can avoid some of the pitfalls I’ve had and apply some of the things I’ve learned for yourself.
I look forward to sharing this journey with you and I hope you'll find it insightful, practical and inspirational.
For now, I’ll leave you with one of my favorite stoic quotes by Marcus Aurelius.
At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work–as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for–the things which I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”
–But it’s nicer here…
So you were born to feel ‘nice?’ Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
–But we have to sleep sometime…
Agreed. But nature set a limit on that–as it did on eating and drinking. And you’re over the limit. But not of working. There you’re still below your quota. You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash and eat.
If you are interested in reading more from this book I recommend this translation of it.
Until next week 👋
-Jimi