Taylin John Simmonds Quotes

The future won’t belong to specialists who refuse to change.

It will belong to people who can become someone new again and again.
Technology is moving too fast for fixed identities.

Agency, learning speed, and keeping cool under uncertainty are the new job security.

A sign of a life well lived: you get happier as you age.

If you've made any money from your creative work, even a single dollar, you've done the hard part.

Opportunities don't come to those who wait for them.
They come to those who write for them.

The best reason to make money:
So you never have to ask anyone for permission again.

You don't have ideas.
Ideas have you.

If writing feels hard, it might be because you’re doing it correctly.

Writing is thinking. Real thinking. The kind that digs deeper than surface level assumptions. Of course it’s exhausting. Thinking clearly is really fricken hard.

Difficulty is part of the reward.

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

Solo building is overrated.

Find your people. Meet daily. Build cool sh*t together.

I’m creating a newsletter ghostwriting course with two close friends and it’s the most fun I’ve had in months.

Few things beat building with people who care as much as you do.

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.

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.

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

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.

Your anxiety is excitement with no where to go.
Give it a purpose.