Posts tagged Alain de Botton

I’m Not Good Enough

I’m Not Good Enough

I’m listening to Seth Godin’s Linchpin this week and this point really struck a nerve with me. We are trained to not make mistakes. School is all about getting high grades by not making mistakes, but you can’t make art by not making mistakes.  No wonder we feel like we are wrong all the time. […]

May Reading

May Reading

Doors Open, a Novel by Ian Rankin.  I’m a big Ian Rankin fan.  This is a little different than his other ones, and I like it.   Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A journey through the 6,000 languages of earth by Glenn Dixon.  Words are concepts not representations of things.  Buying is a very […]