Be Sincere—Not Serious
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Be Sincere—Not Serious
A little fun can go a long way toward making your work feel more like play. We forget that the imagination-at-play is at the heart of all good work.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The essence of play is being fully immersed and joyful in what you’re doing, without being constantly distracted by concerns about the outcomes.
Bill Burnett • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
the ability to take your work very seriously without taking yourself that seriously is a lowkey superpower
Tiago Forte • Tweet
John Cleese: “Now I suggest to you that a group of us could be sitting around after dinner, discussing matters that were extremely serious like the education of our children, or our marriages, or the meaning of life, and we could be laughing, and that would not make what we were discussing one bit less serious. Solemnity, on the other hand, I hones... See more