TEACH What You Know

Every Artist Needs Funds.

• Keep a mailing list- Even though most of us hate emails, all of us have an email address. Reach through emails.
• Encourage them to sign up by being clear about what they can expect from you and the frequency of the updates. Will it be daily/weekly/month...

• Take people behind the scenes, and show them the other side of work you are engaged in, people want to see how things are made/planned.
• Every student should make something from his knowledge and resources because no one is going to provide you with t...

Reading feeds the Writing, which then feeds the Reading.

You are only as good as your own record collection. This includes the books/articles you read, the music you listen to, the people you are influenced by, things you fill your head with, sites you visi...

You should give the proper credit to the work you took

• What it is?
• Who made it?
• When did he/she make it?
• Why we should care?
• How I find it?
• Where to find more things like this?

This is known as ATTRIBUTION.

Because work doesn't speak for itself.

WORDS MATTER- People want to know who made it, why it was made, where it came from, and why we need this.

A good story behind an ordinary product can make it a huge brand.

People want to connect, so you nee...

"Whatever you do, Don't quit your show. Work is never finished, just abandoned".

Whether hit or flop, you still have to face questions (What's Next). You need to be able to persevere, regardless of success or failure. This is what I call CHAIN SMOKING.

We wor...

Overnight Success is a MYTH.

Once you dig deep into the story, you'll find the truth. You'll find the months, years, or decades of some hidden talent, priorities, and habits that provided the success.

A TROLL is a person who is not interested in improving your work but only provokes you with hateful, aggressive, and upsetting talk.

• Don't feed them, they usually go away if you don't react to them.
• Try not to have a comment section to avoid these kinds of peop...

When people ask any creator/artist, "How do you find time for that?" They say, "I look for it." 

You need to find the time for the things you really want to do. Find it during a commute, between work, etc. 

You should look for hearts, not eyeballs.

Stop worrying about how many followers are there, start worrying about the quality of people who follow you.

If you want to gain more followers, you need to be someone who is interesting & worth following. You...

Throw old work, so that we can make room for new.

Books are made out of books.

Invent another you.

Our Obituaries are written before we are dead.

You must become the Editor, while you are still the creator.

• You can't find your voice if you don't use it.
• Today, if your work is not ONLINE, it doesn't exist.
• Share your work or even some ongoing process from it with the world to get noticed.

OBITUARIES are not about deat...

As every intellectual knows, every writer has to become a reader first. One process supports the other.

But a HUMAN SPAM is a person who wants to get published in a journal he has never read. One habit of them is of just talking, not listening. They just want to get noticed...

• Relax/Breathe/Meditate- (No one dies from a bad review).
• Strengthen your neck- (Put on more work, The more criticism you take, the more you realize that it can't hurt you).
• Roll with the PUNCHES- (We can't control what kind of criticism we re...

Don't be content with MASTERY. Learn something new every day, change your courses, and find new ways of doing things always.

Push yourself to be a student again.

Anyone who is not embarrassed of who they were last year probably is not learning enough.

Because as an Amateur,

• There is very little to lose.
• You can try anything new, a new way, a new sort of art/sub-art.
• You can follow your whims and can change your mind anywhere.

The world is changing so rapidly that it is turning all of us (including...

Only share the things that are necessary, and related to your final work. Don't show your lunch or latte, just show your work.

Sharing is good, Oversharing is bad. It'll trap you in its own process.

Don't feel embarrassed when sharing. Make mistakes. Go through the '