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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light, and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.’

Study everything at every second of every day. Attempt to write the textbook instead of reading one. Applied research is an innate style that dominates all aspects of the inventor's life.

“Applied research [is] a type of research that attempts to find practical solutions to existing problems. These can include a variety of challenges, such as infrastructure and conservation. This type of research employs empirical methodologies, such as experiments, to develop an understanding of new knowledge”.

“While basic research focuses on curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, applied research takes a different approach by examining how real-world phenomena or outcomes can be altered. At its core, applied research is oriented towards identifying practical solutions to specific problems.”

Shut your computer, don't look at computer, don't look at your desire, your FUTURE,your favorite thing in computer. If you Really want to see REAL thing, REAL beauty,you have to go there by WALKING and go there and TOUCH it and SMELL it. If you want to CREATE something you need real excitement emotion. Don't look too wide. Not superficiary vision. Creating is making LIFE. If you want to create something, Keep resisting to the mediocrity, ordinary thing against against against. It's a life work.

Are you ready to SACRIFICE yourself to CREATE something?

- Yohji Yamamoto

If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations. Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed, reworked — or built upon.

be confident in the depth of your curiosity not in the depth of your expertise

The most effective communicators are ones who most consistently show up as themselves in every form. Write the same way you talk to your friends at a bar. Make art that provides a point of view on things you care about. Exist online the same way you do in real life.

It can be easy to fall prey to the limiting belief that we are stagnant beings, separate from the constant metamorphosis that is unfolding all around us. When we widen our perspective, we expand our potential. In the words of Joseph Campbell, "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe. To match your nature with nature."

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”