How to Do Creative Work

Dan Saffer
1 min readJan 26, 2020

Excellence, not success.

Discipline, not talent.

Courage, not self-doubt.

Action, not complacency.

Elegance, not luxury.

Forgiveness, not resentment.

Curiosity, not certainty.

Gratitude, not envy.

Creation, not complaining.

Weirdness, not conformity.

Finished, not perfect.

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