Và bạn đáp ứng Ted trở lại sau năm hay mười năm sau đó, và hes vẫn chăm sóc thanh tại nhà hàng. Hes không phải một đứa trẻ nữa. Tuy nhiên, hes vẫn không gần gũi hơn với giấc mơ của mình. Giọng nói của ông vẫn còn là thách thức như bao giờ hết, chắc chắn, nhưng theres một sự trống rỗng lời nói của ông không có ở đó trước. Yeah, tốt, Ted có thể chọn một con đường rất tốt, chà đạp. Viết tiểu thuyết, được phát hiện, xuất bản. | ChangeThis The CD was a nice guy. You could tell he didn t think much of my work though he was far too polite to blurt it out. Finally he quietly confessed that it wasn t doing much for him. Well the target market are middle class housewives I rambled. They re quite conservative so I thought I d better tone it down. You can tone it down once you ve gotten the job and once the client comes after your ass with a red hot poker and tells you to tone it down he laughed. Till then show me the toned-up version. This story doesn t just happen in advertising. It happens everywhere. 22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself. Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book painting screenplay etc. especially if you haven t sold it yet. And the ones that aren t you don t want in your life anyway. Making a big deal over your creative shtick is the kiss of death. That s all I have to say on the subject. ChangeThis 23. Worrying about Commercial vs. Artistic is a complete waste of time. You can argue about the shameful state of American Letters till the cows come home. They were kvetching about it in 1950 they ll be kvetching about it in 2050. It s a path well trodden and not a place where one is going to come up with many new earth-shattering insights. But a lot of people like to dwell on it because it keeps them from having to ever journey into unknown territory. It s safe. It allows you to have strong emotions and opinions without any real risk to yourself. Without you having to do any of the actual hard work involved in the making and selling of something you believe in. To me it s not about whether Tom Clancy sells truckloads of books or a Nobel Prize Winner sells diddlysquat. Those are just ciphers a distraction. To me it s about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth. Different criteria altogether. Frankly how a person nurtures and develops his or her own creative sovereignty with or without the help of the world at .
