Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity

1) There are many lessons that can be drawn from this book. Hence why it is published and people read it. However, there were a few that really hit home.

1.You are responsible for your own experience. Meaning it’s up to you to take the risk or not. But how are you going to know if your idea is a good one if you never pursue it? The answer is you won’t.

2. Keep your day job. Just because you have some great idea that you want to pursue, and it might possibly be a great one doesn’t mean that you go out and leave something that is paying for your bills. You have to keep a good balance between the two and that’s how people become successful.

3. Write from the heart. Too many people out there try and follow something that someone else has already done, and try and make their own. Following scripts can kill even the most outspoken of people.

2) Hugh MacLeod, has been doing these small cartoons on the backs of business cards for quite a few years now. In this time he wasn’t looking to be discovered by some publishing company or some newspaper editor to come take his work and promote it. Rather he was just doing something that he enjoyed that ended up turning into something successful. I find this very creative, because instead of having to make these cartoons for a specific audience and do it the way someone else wants it done; Hugh has created a power for himself in his work in the sense that it already is out there the way he does it, and no one can change that except for him. Not even the publishing company that published the book. He found a way to make something totally his, and keep it that way.

3) A) Why do so many people choose to be sheep and follow the path that other people set for them? They want as little risk to them as possible, but they want as much of the reward as possible out of everything that they do.

B) If everything is played up to see only the glamorous side of everything, what kind of effect will that have on society? People only see one side of the story and don’t realize that no matter what you do you have to put the effort in or you will get nothing in return.