From the Inspirational Thought Unit
A couple weeks ago the New York Times Magazine published a long article about Matt Farley. Farley is a musician most notable for releasing over 24,000 songs. He's written a song about almost every situation (highlighting something interesting in a book), every notable thing in pop culture (Used to be a Pizza Hut), and stuff I'd never think of. (Poop in a Wormhole). Say what you will about the quality of most of those 24,000 songs, the man is unconventional yet dedicated to being prolific.
The article is a fascinating read about one artist earning a living by cracking the algorithm through a relentless pursuit of quantity, challenging society on what exactly is artistic expression, and making a massive amount of work in the process.
One thing he said in the article stuck out to me:
“If you reject your own ideas, then the part of the brain that comes up with ideas is going to stop,” he said. “You just do it and do it and do it, and you sort it out later.”
Maybe the thing holding a lot of us bck is we reject ideas we have before they even have a chance of succeeding? Maybe we could take a page out of Matt Farley's book and just create what our brains come up with, and sort out what's actually good and bad later.
Read the full article here: LINK
-Jake