The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
dude, you’ve got nothing to lose. Your tour is tanking. And it might not be so bad. In fact, if you ask your fans for help, they might surprise you. How? They might be really flattered that you trusted them enough to look uncool.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
It was about the value coming from the taker of the flower, the hearer of the song, the heart of the beholder. Being painted white and standing on a box, the crowdsurfing, the Kickstarter, ringing a stranger’s doorbell in the middle of the night: I no longer see these things as risk. I see them as acts of trust. I think the real risk is the choice
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As we forged along, the band made an art out of asking for help—from our housemates, from our friends, from our fans, from our family, from anybody who’d give it.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
In the band’s first three…
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