It’s not lying if you say you’ve done something and then seek to ensure that your future makes good on what was once a lie. People look back and explain how they were inevitable successes, and I had no idea. The things I’d done that worked the best were the things I was the most uncertain about. The one thing that we have that nobody else have, is you. Most of us only find our own voices after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people. The urge starting out is to copy, and that’s not a bad thing. Make it on the bad days, make it on the good days too. Eventually time will take the sting away. When things get tough, this is what you should do. The biggest problem of success is that the world conspires to stop you doing the thing that you do because you’re successful. They couldn’t do the things that mattered or that they’d always wanted to do and that, seemed as big a tragedy as any problem of failure. Certain amount every month to keep where they were. I watched my peers and my friends and the ones who were older than me and I’d watch how miserable how some of them were, telling me how they couldn’t envisage a world where they did what they always wanted to do, anymore, because now they had to earn. Imposter syndrome.Īt some point, you have to stop saying yes to everything because not the bottles you threw in the ocean are all coming back. The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you’re getting away with something, and that at some point someone will discover you. The things I did because I was existed and wanted to see in reality have never let me down. Every now and then I forget that rule and every time the universe kicks me hard and reminds me.Īnything I did just for the money was rewarded by nothing but bitter experience. If you do it for the money and the money doesn’t come you won’t have anything. If you do what you love then even if you don’t have the money at least you have the work. Take work that moves you towards your mountain. You have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, finding work, getting where you want to goĭecide on the mountain you want to walk towards and keep walking towards it. That’s much harder than it sounds and also sometimes much easier than you can imagine. If you have an idea of what you want to do and want you want to make then just go and do that. And because nobody has done it before they haven’t yet made up rules to stop it being done again

If you don’t know it’s impossible it’s easier to do. When you start out on a career in the arts you don’t know what you’re doing

Neil gaiman speech make good art