Here's how to live: Create. | Derek Sivers
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10.8.25
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Spend your life creating: constantly ship projects and turn ideas into something real, without waiting for inspiration and without holding judgment to what you produce.
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Very inspiring read, and a principle I really believe in. I turn to myself and I think of all the ideas for essays or apps or artworks that popped up in my mind that never became anything. And this essay gives me a visceral desire to rebel against this pattern and to just go do, make, create.
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The most valuable real estate in the world is the graveyard. There lie millions of half-written books, ideas never launched, and talents never developed. Most people die with everything still inside of them.
The way to live is to create. Die empty. Get every idea out of your head and into reality.
When you’ve finished a work, wait a while before you release it to the world. By then, you’re on to something new. The public comments won’t affect you, since they will be about your past work.
When you’re gone, your work shows who you were. Not your intentions. Not what you took in. Only what you put out.