Milton Glaser: Ten Things I've Learned (link)
- You can only work for people that you like
- If you have a choice never have a job. With a quote from John Cage: ‘You know, I do know how to prepare for old age’ he said. ‘Never have a job, because if you have a job someday someone will take it away from you and then you will be unprepared for your old age.’
- Some people are toxic avoid them.
- Professionalism is not enough OR the good is the enemy of the great
- Less in not necessarily more.
- Style is not to be trusted. References Picasso’s twelve bulls.
- How you live changes your brain. References deliberate practice.
- Doubt is better than certainty. With this quote from Iris Murdoch: ‘Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.’
- On Aging. “The first rule is the best. Rule number one is that ‘it doesn’t matter.’ ‘It doesn’t matter that what you think. Follow this rule and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late or early, if you are here or there, if you said it or didn’t say it, if you are clever or if you were stupid. If you were having a bad hair day or a no hair day or if your boss looks at you cockeyed or your boyfriend or girlfriend looks at you cockeyed, if you are cockeyed. If you don’t get that promotion or prize or house or if you do – it doesn’t matter.’ Wisdom at last.”
- Tell the truth.
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