Contents
Foreword by Danielle LaPorte
Introduction
Chapter 1. Voice 12
01. Your parents were wrong 14
02. Have a damn opinion 17
03. The things that made you weird as a kid make you great today 19
04. In the particular lies the universal 20
05. You don’t fit in 22
06. You become who you pretend to be 24
07. Work is serious play 26
08. Creativity is dangerous 29
09. You ain’t weird, you’re free 30
10. Your lot in life 32
Chapter 2. Fear 34
11. You, the reluctant hero 36
12. The success of failure 37
13. Freedom is something you take 38
14. Tombstone 40
15. Beware flaccid platitudes over stock photography 42
16. There ain’t no rules 44
17. Feck perfuction 47
18. This is only a test 48
19. Your ego can’t dance 50
20. Teach your tongue to say, “I don’t know” 51
21. The wrongest answer 52
22. The struggle is everything 54
Chapter 3. Start 56
23. Just start 58
24. All beginnings are hard 60
25. Begin before you’re ready 62
26. What is success? 64
27. Assume success 66
28. Have a plan 67
29. Improvise 68
30. Change the world 70
31. The first rule of business 72
32. Make yourself happy first 74
33. Confidence is sexy 75
34. Excitement breeds excitement 76
35. The cost of freedom 78
Chapter 4. Action 80
36. Action, action, action 82
37. Love, attention, and consistency 83
38. Seek the muse 84
39. Run from comfort 86
40. Help me, help me, help me 87
41. Hold the line 88
42. Always ask for more 90
43. Accept less 91
44. Kill your phone 92
45. Artists sign their work 94
46. Do the work 96
47. Sharpen the ax 97
48. Coffee notes 98
49. Inspiration without action 100
Chapter 5. Habits 102
50. Kill the critic 104
51. Stop deprecating all over yourself 106
52. Brave and scared shitless 107
53. Complaining is not conversation 108
54. The secret of the universe 110
55. The second arrow 112
56. Beautifully flawed 114
57. Pobody’s nerfect 116
58. You’ve got a big but 118
59. You have no friends 120
60. Poison and medicine 122
61. Let go, kitty 124
62. Warrior not worrier 126
Chapter 6. Purpose 128
63. Love something other than your selfie 130
64. Trust as inspiration 132
65. Trust yourself 134
66. Judge not 137
67. Your work is a gift 138
68. Health 141
69. I’m a fake 142
70. Learn everything 144
71. We all teach, all the time 146
72. For god or money? 148
73. Don’t chase money 149
74. Because I wanna 150
75. How to change the world 152
76. A younger me 154
77. Make work that matters 156
Acknowledgments 158
Credits 159
About the Author 161