Summer

Yesterday I decided that I would take a short trip to Croatia; today, I’ve packed a backpack full of clothes, food, and drink. It’s as simple as that for me. The freedom summer offers is you is the thing that I value the most.

The Beauty of Creative Success

When we think of artists we don’t usually think of them as successful. Instead, we imagine a half-crazy, hunger-starved artist with torn jeans and a paint-stained shirt. When someone tells you that they are an artist – a professional artist, I should add – then people normally think that an artist is poor and lives a sort of hippie lifestyle. This, however, is a misconception and evidence of cultural prejudice. All the great thinkers in history were also great creatives: just think of Einstein, Edison, Steve Jobs - you name it. Anyone who ever invented something amazing or solved a pressing problem was a creative thinker and therefore in one way or another an artist. Society needs creative people. But what is it that sets the successful ones apart from the not so successful ones?