Doodle Card #368 – Live Your Life

 

Live your life.
自分の人生を生きよう。

 

The whole life can be a mistake if you don’t live your own life.

You just follow someone’s expectations and live other’s life. You don’t pursue what you love; you don’t even know what you love. You only expect that something good would happen to you, and do nothing. And on and on. Compared to these, it would be much better to be completely brainwashed and live a whole life without noticing what our own life is.

Once we begin to notice our true self, here’s what happens:

“You are constantly invited to be what you are.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And it’s quite hard to refuse this invitation.

 

Doodle Card #367 – Disconnect & Concentrate

 

Disconnect & concentrate.
ネットを切断して、集中しよう。

 

Here’s a cold fact: we can’t generate great ideas while we type away at a keyboard. Or when we fix our eyes on our phone.

Great ideas only come from our brain. And we have to actively go offline so as to make the most of our brain functions. Otherwise we are exposed to unlimited distractions and linear thinking, which prevent our brain from thinking deeply and exploding its creativity.

 

Doodle Card #366 – Go After Your Ideas, Not Others

 

Go after your ideas, not others.
他人じゃなく、自分のアイデアを追求しよう。

 

Doing many experiments is essential for us to find an idea that works well. That also means that we often have embarrassing experiences from the experiments.

My 10-ideas doodle was a complete disaster. It was disastrous because I just followed other’s idea and tried to cut corners—hoping the 10-ideas format would make me more creative, which didn’t happen. It rather prevented me from digging deeply into myself and discovering something insightful.

Especially when we pursue a creative work, we might as well stick to our own idea(s). Of course, even if our idea is extremely good, we will have to learn many things from ideas and experiences of others in order for us to make our idea happen—but that doesn’t mean we have to blindly follow someone’s ideas, experiences and/or advice.

 

Doodle Card #365 – 10 Reasons You Should Stop Doing What You Do

 

Based on the analysis of my two-week experiment, I’ve decided to stop creating my 10-ideas doodle card—at least in the way I’ve been doing in the recent two weeks. I think the 10-ideas format is not the best way to deliver the unique value that only I can create.

In our life, there are thousands (if not millions) of times we should consider doing what we’ve been doing. There are also thousands of reasons that you should consider quitting, and today’s list is only a fraction of them.

It’s okay to stop doing what you do, even if you’ve been doing it for a long time. The worst situation is that, you just waste your time, energy and creativity for the things that no one—including yourself—would benefit from.

 

Doodle Card #364 – 10 Things To Do When You Feel Inferior

 

I always lived with a sense of inferiority. And I still often do. Even when people say something good about me, my subconscious mind rejects it and tells me complete opposite things.

I’ve never fully succeeded in conquering the feeling of inferiority. I still have many things to do, and today’s list is just part of them. You might find none of them useful, and that’s probably what my subconscious mind wants, while my conscious mind still hopes the list would be helpful to someone else in any way.