Because how do I know if it’s going to make it or not? Even if I think their art looks like a fourth grader painted it, I won’t tell them. Often, I’ll have artists ask me to look at their artwork and tell them if they have a chance to succeed with it. If Hugh MacLeod would have taken heart to those who laughed off his cartoons on the back of business cards, he wouldn’t be the artist-success story that he is now. THE PROBLEM WITH ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION THAT YOUR IDEA IS GOOD You don’t need confirmation from anyone else that you are doing the right thing. Sheeples will make a decision, then change their minds once they hear from other sheeple that their idea is stupid. Most people worry incessantly about what others think, and they sadly make their decisions based upon the opinions of losers who haven’t achieved anything for themselves.ĭon’t be a SHEEPLE! (Sheeples follow the herd in a group-think mentality. That means not caring what anyone else says, and if you do care, ignore them anyway. If you’re going to get anywhere with your crazy, ass-backwards ideas, you really have to just do things your own way. It’s just they don’t know your world one millionth as well as you know your world, no matter how hard they try, no matter how hard you try to explain… It’s not that they deliberately want to be unhelpful. There’s a reason why feelings scare us.Īnd asking close friends never works quite as well as you hope, either.
And trusting your feelings is not as easy as the optimists say it is. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. You don’t know if your idea is any good the moment it’s created. When I first started with the cartoon-on-back-of-bizcard format, people thought I was nuts… The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. H ere’s a (shortened) excerpt from the first chapter of IGNORE EVERYBODY : Hugh’s book, IGNORE EVERYBODY, will inspire you to be more like a Wolf than a Sheep. I’m glad to say that his success has made a mockery of every person who told him that drawing on the back of business cards is meaningless. Though his artwork has not been recognized by the New York art gallery mafia (his term), he’s captured the hearts of millions of people with his art and his Best Selling Book IGNORE EVERYBODY. Hugh’s art is simple and often delightfully offensive.
Making sense of modern life, Hugh MacLeod’s cartoon drawings on the back of business cards get to the heart of the truth. And you’ll get in the habit of tapping into your intuition, your own brain and your passions, which will lead to more success. There’s a price for ignoring everybody: You’ll become the lonely wolf, separated from the bored sheeples.īut there’s great payment that you’ll receive for trusting in yourself: Success, happiness and sometimes a lot of money. They have to or they’d never get things done. Wolfs are the innovators, the inventors and artists and writers. They lean towards the professions that they were meant (made) to do.
Their lives tend to end up just the way they want them to. But they also find great happiness, because they follow their own dreams and make their own plans. They stand away from the crowd, make waves and piss a lot of people off. The wolfs, also known as the stubborn trouble makers (I was one) tend to have their own ideas of how things should be. Our parents made decisions for us, our teachers told us how things should be done, and society has its own rules on what is right and wrong.Īfter being beat down by authority for years on end, many people just become one of the sheep. Most of us are unknowingly trained to NOT trust in our own judgment. This includes family, friends and the smartest guru in town. Only you know what’s right for you, so ignore everybody else. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is. “ Nobody can tell you if what you’re doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile.
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