Excerpt: "What I am finding quite fascinating is that my life has already begun the shift to the kind of practice that Godin describes, particularly my attitude toward results and feedback. 

As I’ve mentioned before, “positive” feedback is nice, but I don’t actually care all that much right now. I am doing the work that I am doing for its own sake, for my own sake, and out of a deep sense of trust that I have cultivated with my self and others around me.

Applause? Great. Crickets? Great. Nothing guaranteed? Great.

Still, I must create. I am an artist.

It feels strange to write those words and say them aloud and perhaps it is Godin and Sylvain who have bolstered my confidence in the matter.

Godin says, “If we care enough, we keep looking for that feeling, that impact, that ability to make a difference. And then we look harder…That search has created our culture and the world we live in. More and more people, engaging and contributing, weaving together something worth building. Let’s call it ‘art.’ The human act of doing something that will make a difference. The emotional action of doing personal, self-directed work to make a change that we can be proud of…Your part matters. Your art matters” (p. 9)

We’re not on the outside of “art” looking in, we are on the inside creating out.