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Make Good Arts:把事情做好、守时、让人愉快

Make Good Arts:把事情做好、守时、让人愉快

刚在车上看了段视频,是 Neil Gaiman 在 UArts 的演讲,挺喜欢这段的,奉献给大家。还在上班的筒子们,预祝大家新年快乐!咱们2016再见!

Make good art.

I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.

And Fifthly, while you are at it, make your art. Do the stuff that only you can do.

The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that’s not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today’s world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They’ll forgive the lateness of the work if it’s good, and if they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as the others if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.

这段说的极好,其实人生TM就是那么一回事,工作TM也就是那么一回事。:)

完整演讲见:http://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address-2012

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