Theme 84: Lost

“Luck is essentially a combination of preparedness, openness, and follow through.”

You’ve got the right to change your mind.

Give yourself permission to make mistakes.

What problems are you avoiding—in business and in your personal life? And what are the consequences of that?

We are so busy chasing other things that we don’t realize what we’ve actually got.

If you’re not careful, you will lose who you are by not looking at what you are avoiding.

Guard your health more than your wealth.

I had no idea at the time that all of these opportunities would come of it, so you never know what will happen when you find yourself in these times, and if you're able to create in these moments where that's all you can do, you're kind of stripped of everything else you can possibly do, all you can do is kinda resort to what makes sense to you - I think that is the time to, y'know, carpe diem, make it happen.

And sometimes you have to get out in the middle of nowhere to be able to be completely lost in these landscapes, and to create imagery that transports you to places that you can only really dream of.

You just kind of have to go with what happens.

Find people that you can connect with and that you can reach out to in the creative world in these times.

I feel like I create some of my strongest work when I am at my moodiest, and whenever I'm in my lost points

To actually just get on a bus, get out of town, find these new places; it sounds cliche to say it but you get lost you get found and find yourself when you separate yourself from what you're familiar with

I know there's something here for me, and I'm gonna find it

This was also foundational; Creative Mornings was one of my first things I did when I moved to Edinburgh.

what I sort of found myself getting lost in was taking opportunities as they came because starting out you have to be a yes man.

(freelancing) we go up and down in peaks and troughs with our process and with our work, and find ourselves in lots of low points where we lose our sense of identity.

One person can take risks better when there is someone next to them who actually manages and assesses the risk.

You can only do something because you have another one next to you who is doing that you don't want to do or can't do or deny its importance.

Work is no longer even just a production economy, nor even just a service economy. It's an identity economy. It isn't just what I'm gonna do next, it's who I'm gonna be next.

Life is not about finding yourself, but creating yourself.

Relationships are harmony-disharmony-repair, connection-disconnection-reconnection. It's in the reconnection that the trust gets built. You have to have a rupture in order to actually build the trust.

If you allow yourself to leave the beaten path, weird and memorable shit will happen to you.

We can communicate at lightning speed these days. That doesn't mean you have to.

... the intentions that were inside of me being manifest.

Are you willing to allow 'lost' to give you something?

How do we allow 'lost' to show up in our lives?

These moments of 'lost,' they call us into being and they're also really uncomfortable.

"Practice like you've never won. Perform like you've never lost."

I discovered that the impossible is actually possible.

Breathing is still movement.

"Las personas que no pertenecemos a ni a un lado ni al otro, somos puente, somos portales, nos comunicamos en los dos lados"

"El arte es para comunicar"

Everything costs something.

The best thing that ever happened for me as an artist is when I became comfortable being uncomfortable.

Who you are and what you want to be is already inside of you. You just have to trust who you are.

When you are lost, every direction is right.

When I got lost, I started to pay attention.

It is not radical hospitality to come in and tell other people what they need to do. It's radical when you let them lead and you get out of the way.

I hope and pray that my inner compass yields to radical hospitality always, even if I get it wrong, because I've seen the richness in my life I wouldn't find anywhere else. And I hope the same for you, and our community too.

Radical hospitality opened my heart and gave me a family, y'all. People I'm not related to by blood, but they're my family.

Walk alongside young people. They really need us.

I define radical hospitality as 'transformational connection through welcome.'

In my lifetime, I've noted a shift away from the sheer thought of engagement and collective humanity, making way for apathy, complacency and even anger, hatred and greed. And I'm kinda sick of it. What about y'all?

There's that nasty adage out there that, "those who can't do, teach." And when this guy, who is a Fortune500 CEO tells me, "You should go teach, and oh by the way when I was starting this company I was spending nights teaching young people how to start a business," that was pretty inspiring.

‘Love Letter’ is about being tired of being negative and just wanting to be confident and knowing that it’s okay to be confident. When I sing the words, I am reminding myself and I am reminding other people that it’s okay to want to love yourself and be confident in yourself, no matter what.

Replace the sliders with a Trumpen (= Stick). By moving the Trumpen, we can play the letter (s).

What we had in the past was typography, what we have now is Grammatography: Writing with letters which may react to the user and reader.

At the moment there exists a kind of letter logic, that says A ≠ B, meaning: A and B are two different letters. In our model this logic is replaced by a form causality, meaning that a letter is what it becomes.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. (Søren Kierkegaard)

It’s the blessing and the curse of the creative to find joy and fulfillment in the challenges.