Austin's words are in bold. My personal comments are in italics.
- What can I do that will mean the most to the most people
- Take action with great consequences. Do things that create waves, not ripples. Spend your time in a world in which your actions mean something to people other than yourself.
- Good poets copy great poets steal
- If you follow one person it's plagarism. If you follow many then it's innovation. Take from the wisdoms of others. They worked hard to make your work more meaningful.
- Creativity is about having a network
- You need other people around you to inspire creativity. You can't do it alone. And you shouldn't have to. It's not that the lonely artist or the mad scientist or the single passionate entrepreneur is dead. It is simply easier to be a team player.
- Productivity is so overrated in so many ways.
- A fascinating little statement. Productivity means you don't spend time with your mind aimlessly wandering the ether of it's imagination. Being productive and being innovative are often on opposite ends from each other. And you need the latter to ensure that your productivity is going towards a good cause.
- I’m going to make the worst thing I can make
- Do things as a test. Stretch your imagination. Put weird constraints on your work, and you'll return with fun results.
- "Everyone the same age as you is really just an alternate universe of your life with choices you didn’t make"
- I LOVE this concept. We could have all been the 22 year old, or 40 year old, or 87 year old who lives next door. Instead, we did what we decided to do. And that's what got us here. Think about the choices your counter-universes made. Look into how people older than you are living. Decide where you want to go, and the life choices that will take you to that universe.
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