Never before has the world so eagerly awaited your unique contribution. Stop looking for a job. Create your own work and surprise yourself – and everyone else. Marco Visscher takes a look at the art of loving your work.
an attitude. Art is the unique work of a person who's doing what he/she wants to do, who makes things or does things that inspire others. We need that kind of art because it connects us with our heart and soul and with others. Art is what we do and who we are. It gets even better. Never before has the world been so eager to receive your art. Think about it. The Web has created an economy of connection, which has changed the nature of everyday things: how we communicate with one another, how we listen to music, which books we read and how we choose a restaurant. We are no longer confined to mediocre mass-market products. We have a huge range of choice, a wealth of information and an immense network. If there were ever a time to give the world something of yourself – a new idea, something you created, something that moves you – this is it. Seth Godin puts it well in his latest book, The Icarus
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ou're probably not an eccentric poet or a painter balanced on the brink of insanity. You don't have to be. Art is something else entirely. Art is
technological trends suggest the world will never be the same. Large companies are no longer dominant. They are no longer the 'givers' of employment from cradle to grave; the 'takers' will have to make it on their own. And that's a good thing. For in the new reality, there is a solid appreciation for art, innovation and personal leadership. In fact, those qualities are coveted, even required. We see these artists everywhere around us. They are the dabblers and hobbyists who screenprint t-shirts, knit hats and string beads. They build websites and create apps. They design new products they manufacture themselves. They start their own businesses, working to get a dream project off the ground. For them, the step to entrepreneurship has never been so small. There are websites where, through crowdfunding, you can cobble together modest amounts of money to finance a good idea. There are websites for open source design, in which people collaborate to develop an increasingly better product. From there, it's a tiny step to using search machines and online reviews to find a local factory that will take your credit card payment, then manufacture and ship a modest run of your niche-product brainchild. These you then sell on your own website – created with the uber-easy WordPress,
Deception: How High Will You Fly? Things that were once safe bets – academic degrees, full-time jobs – no longer are. We think or maybe just hope that security will return after the crisis, but a variety of social and
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