Posts tagged fearlessness
How to leap: advice on quitting your job

I grew up in a risk adverse, immigrant culture in which the idea of finding the work you loved was always counterbalanced by the idea of having a stable, steady career. When you’re young and uncertain, the easy choice is the one right front of you. It’s the path you fall into out of convenience, as in: This is what I did for two summer internships, so, this is what I’ll continue doing.

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Advice for creatives no. 6 | Boldness has power and magic in it.

"Boldness has power and magic in it. Begin it now."

My typography teacher, Jason Heuer, told us that this one quote by Goethe inspired him to change careers and go to design school in his thirties. He said he had the chills just rereading it in class. When you stumble upon words like this (and of course it has to be in the right place and at the right time), it's such a treasure.

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