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Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Portfolio; First Edition edition (June 11, 2009)
I really enjoyed this book--it's sectioned so you can read it cover to cover, or just pick it up and read a small, short section (which is how I do it now that I've read it cover to cover. It lives on my coffee table, and I pick it up a few moments before heading off to bed.
The author is self-deprecating, honest, and really made good points. He kept his day job, and continued to sell his small cards and ideas, which is sort of how I'm doing it--I haven't sold anything over $20, but I sell consistently, (on an internet auction site) and have a career and day job (usually, if not currently.) I would LOVE to be making a million dollars a year, but I'm happy making anywhere from $200 to $2000, and maybe someday--in the mean time, I have a day job. This is the advice the author gives--whatever it is you do, do it, but don't stop doing the thing you do for money.
The myth of leap and the net appears seems to leave lots of people flattened on the pavement (that was me, a few decades ago.)
I found it well-written, and I started sharing bits of it with my hubby (who's a day to day office guy, but also plays guitar, so he's creative in his own time, but earns a paycheck.)
personally, I think the world needs more of this realistic advice--there's enough Steve Jobs/Ted talk type folks telling you to leap and believe, but sometimes, despite believing and making a commitment, the world just isn't willing or ready to hand you a suitcase full of money--in the meantime, hone your craft, and enjoy doing what you do, without the stress of needing to sell, needing to make a big splash, because that stress is a creativity killer.
Loaded with great doodles, and funny cartoons, but a treat to read, also.
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This book contains some valuable universal truths presented in an interesting way. I would classify it at as a "Leadership Lite" book worthy of downloading to your Kindle or stashed in your briefcase to be read on an airplane.
I love "fun to read" leadership books versus the "utilitarian", "old fogy" "Harvard Business Review" style and this book is fun to read. I still read the utilitarian books...I just suffer through them. What makes this book good is the stories to illustrate points are the author's own.
Here are my top eight takeaways from Ignore Everybody.
1. The more original your idea is, the less good advice people will be able to give you.
2. Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships that is why good ideas are always initially resisted.
3. Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing.
4. The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.
5. Being good at anything is like figure skating - the definition of being good at it is being able to make it look easy. But it never is easy. Ever. That is what the stupidly wrong people conveniently forget.
6. Your job is probably worth 50 percent of what it was in real terms ten years ago. And who knows? It may very well not exist in five to ten years...Stop worrying about technology. Start worrying about people who trust you.
7. Part of being a master is learning to sing in nobody else's voice but your own...Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. Its that simple.
This book is extremely easy to read and it is the only good thing about it. There is no content in the book (whatever there is can be summarized in max. 2 pages) . The cartoons have plenty of teenage humor and sometimes they manage to be funny. There is actually very little to read. I would say, the book can be done with in about five to ten minutes. It absolutely does NOT deliver what the title suggests. It is intended (I think) as something funny. I think the author needs to consider other career options, other than "creativity".
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Ignore Everybody is two things in one. First, it's a series of tips designed to turn creatives into artists. Second, it's a collection of Hugh's best cartoons. While some of the cartoons do support the text, I'm going to review the cartoons and the text separately because they really do stand on their own.
===THE BOOK===
What separates a writer from an author? A rower from an oarsman? A comedian from a humorist?
Greatness in any field comes from taking a novel idea and pushing it to its logical conclusion, redefining the medium in the process.
Hugh doesn't teach you how to come up with your big idea, nor is the book a collection of theories on what makes something innovative. Rather, Hugh's rules teach a mindset conducive to pushing great ideas to their logical conclusions.
This book won't teach you how to paint, but if you're lucky you'll come away with the mental frame you need to avoid having the outside world crush your creativity. And if you really take its lessons to heart then hopefully, in the words of Steve Jobs, you'll ship.
Over the years I've sent the blog post that inspired this book to countless friends, and now that I've read the book itself I can't recommend it enough. I'd consider it a must-read for any creative who aspires to be an artist, not just some guy who lives in a loft and calls himself a writer.
But even if you don't aspire to become an artist, the book still has much to offer. In Hugh's own words, "This book is about becoming more 'creative' in one's work, whoever you may be. Or just useful advice for any one who aspires to undertake some creative or artistic journey.Read more ›
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