GOALS OF LIFE - by V. Vale
DEVELOP ALL Your Talents/Potentials! Create As Much As Possible, In As Many Media As Possible! Work All the Time & Don’t Slack Off! No Separation Between ART & LIFE! As Much Humor As Possible! RE/SEARCH the FUTURE Forever! Look Good, Sound Good, Feel Good! Humor&Beauty Über Alles! TO THINK: USE THE LAW OF 3 (Dialectics Rules Life): Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis. Repeat! USE Your DREAMS / IMAGINATION (Imagination Creates The Future)… First Thought/Best Thought!
PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVITY STRIVE FOR:
- AUTONOMY. You must have 100% control. Don’t listen to any “advice.” Try to Avoid $$ “Partners.”
- MASTERY. Be determined to give the highest possible quality of Content you can create. Strive to continually get “better” at everything you Do.
- PURPOSE. Follow Your Obsessions, Dreams. Passion + Research + Willpower Creates Your Future!
PROJECTS / ART / SELF-PUBLISHING:
- D-I-Y (Do-It-Yourself). Also: Anyone Can Do IT! Everybody can do Anything!
- Be Anti-Authority, Anti-Authoritarian. (Be/Think Against the Status Quo. Be Anti-Consumerist. Be Non-Conformist!)
- Seek: Complementary Collaboration with the Most Genius-Funniest-Rebellious People You Can Find!
- Live by Black Humor. (Research the World History of Black Humor, Naive-Outsider Art, Weird Science/more)
- Be Enthusiastic & Passionate!
- Strive to Bring Out Everyone’s Talents.
- Provide Original, Unique Content.
- Your Subconscious Is Your Best Friend!
- Life is Projects! (No Projects, No Life!)
SOME PRINCIPLES & THOUGHTS:
- I’m interested in the FUTURE - because that’s where I’ll spend the rest of my life!” – Bucky Fuller
- IDEA: Change the World Through [Ethical] Design. Don’t try to change “Humans”; Change Environment.
- Follow Your DRIVES: Curiosity, Anger, Quest for Justice. Diligence, Perseverance, Pains. Details Matter!
- Remove Obstacles. If You Don’t Like Your Name, Change It!
- GOAL: Strive for More Consciousness, More Freedom, More Justice, for More People! Maintain Your Sense of Outrage!
- Stay Insecure - it drives you to continually Do Better, and Better Yourself!
- Seek/Seize/Enjoy “DO NOTHING” TIME. Lay on the Grass. Fantasize. Draw. Channel. Do Automatic Writing. Be a Flaneur.
- Strive to be a Man/Woman of Knowledge! Read Surrealism-Situationsim-WSB-JGB.
- Remember: Mystery is an Essential Component of a Work of Art (& A Relationship)!
- Be ORGANIZED. Soon as You Meet Someone “Important,” start a FILE on ‘em! Like-with-Like! Broad Categories/Subsets.
- SURREALISM Trumps Realism!
- EVERYTHING in Life Is PERSONAL.
- first Technology, Then Culture!
TACTICS:
- FIRST HOUR: SILENCE. No email/phone/Internet. WRITE! Plan!
- Impose LIMITS on Cellphone, Computer, Music. You NEED Solitude!
- Be A SKEPTICAL EMPIRICIST, not a Platonic Idealist. Distrust Everything. Distrust Everybody. But Have Fun!
- Your Only FREEDOM Is Your POWER TO SAY NO! Study the Art & Science of Saying NO, fast!
- DREAMS, IMAGINATION are the Source of Your Creativity (The Machinery implanted in your brain for dreaming & imagination was not implanted for nothing!)
- PAY ATTENTION TO CHANCE. Seize OPPORTUNITY — The Chance Encounter, “Serendipity” — Your Desires Magnetize The Universe!
- Daily: Silence. Solitude. Skepticism.
- Minimize Your Addictions! [Difficult!]
- Stop using the words “believe/belief”!
- HEED Your First INTUITION about People/Proposals. Protect Yourself!
- Judge By Results [Projects, People]
- Expect the Unexpected!
- See Everybody Before They See You!
- Create Wit: 3-word-phrases; Alliteration, Puns, Rhymes. Play with Words!