May 24 2005
A blurb I found…
Going through the 3 million scraps of paper all over my office and apartment that will someday be a book, I came across this:
Make sure that, before you quit – and that’s a long time off – you make or do something that expresses your true world beliefs – the things that go on inside your head. How you view the world, society, people, yourself… You have a very interesting perspective on people. It’s time to stop dismissing and negatively analyzing it and instead truly understand and use it.
I think this might apply to many of you. We fortunately work in an industry where expression is the name of the game. The product we sell is simply a collection of various forms of it – musical, lyrical, artistic, sonic, technical… And if you push yourself beyond the goal of simply releasing music and instead strive to deliver a message about your core beliefs, you’ve accomplished something 99.9% of the world will never have the opportunity to do.
Don’t waste the soapbox you’re building.
In the real estate business, they use the phrase “highest and best use” to determine the potential value of a piece of property. Your quote has inspired me to ask myself, “What is the ‘highest and best use’ of my life?”