To all copywriters, marketers, product managers, artists... everyone who is creating stuff for people, this speech of Maria Popova is worth your time!
Find the complete video here: https://bit.ly/3IZ0VdP
and my favorite extract below:
"On the Soul-Sustaining Necessity of Resisting Self-Comparison and Fighting Cynicism"
(...) your role as a creator of culture will be to help people discern what matters in the world and why, by steering them away from the meaningless and toward the meaningful.
Never let the temptation of marketable mediocrity and easy cynicism rob you of the chance to ennoble public life and enlarge the human spirit — because we need that badly today, and because you need it badly for the survival of your soul.
Find the complete video here: https://bit.ly/3IZ0VdP
and my favorite extract below:
"On the Soul-Sustaining Necessity of Resisting Self-Comparison and Fighting Cynicism"
(...) your role as a creator of culture will be to help people discern what matters in the world and why, by steering them away from the meaningless and toward the meaningful.
Never let the temptation of marketable mediocrity and easy cynicism rob you of the chance to ennoble public life and enlarge the human spirit — because we need that badly today, and because you need it badly for the survival of your soul.