Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity
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When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he ongoing to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Persons cartoons eventually led to a well loved blog – gapingvoid.com – and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures.
MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the meaning of life, but one of his main subjects is creativity. How do new thoughts emerge in a cynical, risk-averse world? Where does inspiration come from? What does it take to make a living as a creative person?
Now his first book, Snub Everyone, expands on his sharpest insights, wittiest cartoons, and most useful advice. A sample:
* Selling out is harder than it looks. Diluting your product to make it more commercial will just make people like it less.
* If your plot depends on you suddenly being “learned” by some huge shot, your plot will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.
* Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether. There’s no point trying to do the same thing as 250,000 additional young hopefuls, waiting for a miracle. All existing business models are incorrect. Find a new one.
* The thought doesn’t have to be huge. It just has to be yours. The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will.
After learning MacLeod’s 40 keys to creativity, you will be ready to unlock your own brilliance and unleash it on the world.
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this makes it impossible sorry to say to evaluate whether it is worth reading this book. Note: providing such fleeting samples tends to mak people rather suspicious.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Beware, Kindle owners. If you request a sample chapter, all you will get (after the take in, title page, etc., etc., etc., etc.) is TWO PARAGRAPHS OF THE PREFACE before being questioned if you want to buy the whole book. TWO PARAGRAPHS! I guess that’s in keeping with the title, IGNORE EVERYBODY. I’m not knocking the book because I can’t tell from the sample if I want to buy it or not. Just thought I’d warn you.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
My comment is not on the entire book but the sample chapter for the Kindle.
The sample chapter consisted entirely of the table of contents, the predictable prefatory pages the names for which I don’t know the book industry jargon and ONE PARAGRAPH of actual content.
It’s kind of hard to evaluate a book’s worthiness when a sample is so carelessly assembled. I did not buy it.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is a silly book. The cartoons don’t have anything to do with the theme matter and the authur seems to reflect that using profanity adds to the theme. Maybe he thinks he’s cool?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Write a blog. Get it published. Once in print people have to pay for it. Place money in bank (or maybe write another blog and repeat). If only blogs were promoted like books. I could have saved some money and saved Hugh a trip to the bank. Appealing thoughts and perspectives, but print worthy? Only you can choose.
On the postive side, bound between covers, it was much simpler to read at the beach.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5