Muse.


[Ori­gi­nally sent out in the news­let­ter etc.]

We’ve all fai­led at some point or another in our lives, but the ques­tion is always; “what do you come away with?”

For me, it always ins­pi­red me to do bet­ter, somehow. I never gave up. So this kind of adversity-induced ins­pi­ra­tion sorta became my “muse” after a while.
I’m get­ting to the age where the kids I grew up with who “Never made a mis­take” are star­ting to pla­teau careerwise.

“Doing everything right” meant only dea­ling with known quan­ti­ties, known out­co­mes, the oppor­tu­ni­ties of the unk­nown were never embraced.

None of them became car­too­nists, that’s for damn sure…

Comments

  1. Hi Hugh,
    I just fin­sihed rea­ding your book Ignore Every­body today and totally love it. Can relate to a lot of the things you men­tio­ned in the book and yes, I’ve spent years of my life wan­ting to ‘live my dream’ but in the end, can to the rea­lity of it all. Blog­ging part time had been my joy away from the daily work grunt.

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  1. […] periods as well. Ins­pi­ra­tion seems to be a bit like the Phoe­nix rising from the ashes of fai­lure. Hugh McLeod spoke of this today over at GapingVoid.com. The idea of fai­lure being his muse is something that rings a bell with me. Lately, this rudderless […]

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