Fear can be bad if you don’t know what to do with it… Being afraid to confront fear is bad… But fear can be nourishing when you confront it and eat it. By eating irrational fears, you become stronger and more resilient. Several days and weeks of eating fear changes you. It helps you avoid becoming the perfect failure. Eat irrational fear every day.

If you’re an artist, financial troubles can dampen your creativity… There is a link between freedom and debt. Debts can kill dreams. So artists often accept that they may never make money from their work. They think small, work hard and stay frugal. Don’t think small with your business or art… But with your living situation. Pressure to perform creatively can have a negative effect on production. A research paper titled “Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity” by Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer at Harvard Business School states: “…the…

The book “Doing More with Less” by Bruce Piasecki emphasizes the importance of frugality. The author is a fan of Benjamin Franklin… One of Benjamin Franklin’s major insights into human nature is that frugality and industriousness are the ways to wealth. However, frugality is hard because we are constantly urged to spend money… I even allude to spending in my footnotes below. Happiness and Having vs. Spending Money A study by Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton found that the link between money and happiness existed, but only up to about…

Static can be what you hear on the radio, or it can be someone or something in your life that’s making things difficult… Sometimes, the song on the radio you can just make out is so damn good, that even through the static, you want to listen to it. So you focus your attention, and ignore the static. Whether it’s a song on the radio, or that really hard work you’re doing in earnest… Being able to put up with the static is a good sign that you really love…