Yesterday I went to a touring exhibit of a world famous glass artist - I forget his name, but he was a German-Australian. His work was really stunning and he gave a speech to the audience about his work and the exhibit. The speech was all what you’d expect - nothing particularly interesting, but the quote that stuck with me was this:
My favorite work is always the one I will make tomorrow
Now, I don’t know about you, but I think this is a really profound statement. What he’s trying to say is that you should never stop and be content with what you’ve made - always try to make something better, newer, more ingenious. If you let yourself contemplate the possibility that you’ve achieved perfection, then you’ll get caught in a trap of never improving yourself.
So follow his words. Whenever you set out to do something new, remember that this should be better than last time; you should improve on what’s there and try to make it better, even if it’s perfect.
And this applies to everything you do. In web design, for example, If you’ve spent the last week making your beautiful new layout work in every browser, don’t stop there; next try to make it valid, then try to minimize your coding, etc.
If you keep pushing yourself to do better and better, all you can do is succeed.
The artist I saw has been following his own advice his whole life, and now some of his pieces go for over $200,000. He makes at least 25 pieces a year.
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