🏴☠️ Shining Courage Remembered
“Each person has this light inside of them but not everyone has the courage to be the light bearers who will navigate us through the darkness of this world”. — Stella Kalashnikov
“One of the characteristics you see, and many people have it including great scientists, is that usually when they were young they had independent thoughts and had the courage to pursue them” — Richard Hamming
‘All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.’ — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I’m pondering how related these quotes are. I collected them from different newsletters. I think what happens as we grow up is we do things we believe we should do, rather that the things we believed we can do
🍒 Last week..
I wrote about my pre-routine which probably goes against all the best advice about productivity —but works for me.
We’re also still talking about a Shut down routine. Do you have one?
👾 A Retrospective
You don’t learn from experience.
You learn from reflecting on experience.
Before I started illustrating my 4th picture-book I reflected on the 3 books I worked on prior. I asked myself what I liked about working on each book and what I wished was better. I then summarise those thoughts into the following directives:
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