Say “no” to projects that take you further from rather than closer to your own creative goals, however flattering or lucrative.Here, he imparts several pieces of life-wisdom on young people beginning a career in the arts, summarized below. (Which happens to be the technical birthplace of Brain Pickings as we know it today - it’s there that I took my first web design night class in the early 1800s and transformed what began as a tiny email newsletter into a tiny website.) Gaiman himself never graduated from college - in fact, he never even enrolled in college - yet he earned his place in literary culture as one of the most celebrated and prolific writers working today. On the heels of last week’s timeless commencement addresses by icons like David Foster Wallace, Ellen DeGeneres, and Ray Bradbury comes this fantastic speech by Neil Gaiman, addressing the 2012 graduating class of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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