Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

The Importance Of Artistic Community

The Importance Of Artistic Community

This passage on an artistic community is another great point on how an artist should be networking.

How we should not be against each other.

I mean, think of anyone who ever did anything great.

None of them acted alone.

Do not be in competition. Be in community.

Maybe there is a reason that creatives have congregated in Austin, Nashville, and Portland?

In fact, an editor can help in this same way.

Your greatest work will not come from just you. In my interviews with hundreds of working creatives, I discovered that many professional artists do not work alone. Yes, they may retreat to a solitary location to finish a book or record an album, but their work is always refined by community. Many of the most significant creative breakthroughs in history were not inventions by individuals.

Small Things With Great Love

Small Things With Great Love
Trying to do small things with great love reminds me of the quote by Bill  Gates.

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

The point is that most of us will never move a mountain, or build a billion dollar company.

Most of us will never write a book or win a war.

But we can work where we are.

We can make a real difference in the lives of people across the street and in our church.

We can encourage those whose lives we touch.

And we can do it with great love.

“Boy, was that nutty old Mother Teresa right when she said that none of us can do great things, but that we can do small things with great love.”
–Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions
Sterling Terrell