The artist

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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sodsnodds/13385033174" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3812/13385033174_e499882b22_o.jpg" width="400" height="351" alt="2014_03_24_artist" /></a> <p style="font-size: 0.8em;" > Doodle by <a href="http://leesvoice.blogspot.com">Lee</a>. The code for <a href="http://leesdoodles.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-artist.html">this doodle</a> and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at <a href="http://leesdoodles.blogspot.com/">Doodles</a>.</p>


Inspired by a Tweet from Bill Abbott:

Professional Man of Mystery Inspiration: The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. -Émile Zola
— Bill Abbott (@billabbottmagic) September 14, 2013

The power of fail

Life is not a success only jouney.

So why is it that we have a "Fear of bad ideas"? Is it because we don't see the list of failed projects by successful people?

Recently, screenwriter Denis McGrath posted:

"I kind of look at it as -- it's my job to fail until I don't. You try something, fail, fail, fail, keep failing, and hopefully eventually you look at something and say, 'that's not a total failure' and then you nurture that little ember and follow it and hopefully you get somewhere."

Want to have a really good idea? Try having some bad ones first.

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Meta @wilw

This doodle is a little self-indulgent. Months ago, while following the tweets of Wil Wheaton, I thought "Hey, these would make great doodle fodder!" While doing a bit of background research, I found out that Ken Denmead of GeekDad beat me to it. Rather than let that stop me, I just included the information in the doodle. (Which makes it less of a punch line and more of an inside joke. A good geek would have a link here to the xkcd comic where Randall Munroe comments that there's already a picture on the internet of anything you can think of. But I can't seem to put my finger on it.)

Apologies to Wil Wheaton for hijacking his tweet and to Ken Denmead for embedding his comic!

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Success

Over at Non-Stick Plans, Michael recently posted Ronald Searle’s three requirements for success:

• working discipline,
  
• absolute command of the medium and
  
• constant productivity.

To a certain extent, this is true. However, there is a at least one more ingredient. Circumstance (family, culture, friendship, opportunity and chance) also plays a role in an individual's success, as discussed in Malcolm Gladwell's, book Outliers.

Nonetheless, Searle's thoughts overlap nicely with Gladwell's "10,000-Hour Rule." ("No one gets to the top unless he or she puts in 10,000 hours of practice in a field, be it computer software, hockey, music, or law." -- Business Week review of Outliers)

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Full of ideas

Were this always the case ...

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Creativity versus caffeine

Inspired (again) by Craig. Unfortunately, my free-hand 3-D graph rendering abilities are, shall we say, lacking so I'll leave Craig's actual suggestion as an exercise for the reader.

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Creativity vs sleep

Any guess as to where on the creativity versus sleep curve I am today?

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