Đừng cố gắng để đứng ra khỏi đám đông, tránh đám đông hoàn toàn. Kế hoạch của bạn để có được công việc của bạn ra khỏi đó để được như ban đầu là công việc thực tế, có lẽ thậm chí nhiều hơn như vậy. Công việc có để tạo ra một thị trường hoàn toàn mới. Theres không có điểm cố gắng để làm điều tương tự đến ứng cử trẻ khác, chờ đợi một điều kỳ diệu. . | ChangeThis 11. Don t try to stand out from the crowd avoid crowds altogether. Your plan for getting your work out there has to be as original as the actual work perhaps even more so. The work has to create a totally new market. There s no point trying to do the same thing as 250 000 other young hopefuls waiting for a miracle. All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one. I ve seen it so many times. Call him Ted. A young kid in the big city just off the bus wanting to be a famous something artist writer musician film director whatever. He s full of fire full of passion full of ideas. And you meet Ted again five or ten years later and he s still tending bar at the same restaurant. He s not a kid anymore. But he s still no closer to his dream. His voice is still as defiant as ever certainly but there s an emptiness to his words that wasn t there before. Yeah well Ted probably chose a very well-trodden path. Write novel be discovered publish bestseller sell movie rights retire rich in 5 years. Or whatever. No worries that there are probably three million other novelists actors musicians painters etc with the same plan. But of course Ted s special. Of course his fortune will defy the odds eventually. Of course. That s what he keeps telling you as he refills your glass. ChangeThis Is your plan of a similar ilk If it is then I d be concerned. When I started the business card cartoons I was lucky at the time I had a pretty well-paid corporate job in New York that I liked. The idea of quitting it in order to join the ranks of Bohemia didn t even occur to me. What leave Manhattan for Brooklyn Ha. Not bloody likely. I was just doing it to amuse myself in the evenings to give me something to do at the bar while I waited for my date to show up or whatever. There was no commercial incentive or larger agenda governing my actions. If I wanted to draw on the back of a business card instead of a proper medium I could. If I wanted to use a four-letter word I could. If I .
