Taylin John Simmonds Quotes

The question isn't whether you have the discipline to do your life's work.

It's whether you have the ruthlessness to remove everything that isn't it.

Truly creative people don't just want a creative outlet.
They need one. The way a lung needs air.

That unrest you've been feeling?

It's your creative life telling you it wants more room than you've been giving it.

Multi-passionate people don’t need to write about one thing forever. They need to write about what persists. Your interests will rotate. That’s normal. That’s brilliant. It’s the seed of your future genius.

Write from what stays the same: Your way of thinking, living, & earning.

Look, I don't like pure AI content as much as the next guy. But I also don't want to read your 50,000th post about how bad AI content is.

At some point the complaining became its own slop.
Write something useful instead

Read more books.

Read to learn. Read to relax. Read to escape. Read to challenge your thinking. Read to connect with history.

Who you become tomorrow starts with what you read today.

Overthinking is what thoughts do when they have nowhere to go.

Your body is what you eat.
Your mind is what you read.
Your spirit is what you value.

The status game is a trap creative people see through so deeply they can’t unsee it. Once you see what the game actually is, you can’t pretend to want to win it anymore.

Their money buys approval.
Ours buys a life.

The people I respect most don't just read philosophy. They live it.

Anyone can recite Aristotle. Few can sit with a hard decision the way he'd want them to.

Don't let your creative life become a hobby you feel guilty about rarely making time for.

You are what you consume.

YouTube gives you takes. Articles give you arguments. Courses give you systems. Books give you thinking. Old books give you thinking that survived.

Choose accordingly.

Too many people are stuck because they over-consume and under-create.

The internet is outliers teaching people who will never be outliers how to become outliers.

Being multi-passionate isn’t a problem if you learn how to learn (fast).

Life is short, but long enough to master writing, storytelling, drawing, psychology, and engineering without sacrificing time with your parents.

Learn to acquire skills quickly and curiosity stops being a distraction and becomes your advantage.