Something Different Than We Had Before
When you have a solid, cohesive, connected group of people and you...add others to it…
It’s easy to think you’re simply building on the greatness you already have ‘if this is good more will be better’…but it’s much more likely you’ll have to redefine the group from the ground up.
or if you subtract people…
If you have five great people and one leaves it’s easy to think that you’re operating at eighty percent of your identity and you just need to build back that twenty…when in reality you’re probably going to have to start back at zero and rebuild the identity from scratch.
When we have a good thing we want to invite others.
When a good thing gets shaken we want to repair quickly.
Both things are possible and can be done…but both will result in something different than we had before.
Order The Coffee
Headliner Chant
If you’re on stage as the opening band it’s not a great sign if the crowd starts chanting the headliners name.
You probably really wanted the gig. It was probably really hard to get the gig. It was probably a lot of work to get everyone on stage.
So two things…
- Hopefully you wanted the right gig.
- It’s so much work to get the gig that it’s easy to run out of energy to put together a show good enough to make the audience forget about the headliner.
The Styx
Lots Of Opinions
As creatives we often have trouble here…
Lots of opinions…but not sure what we want.
We can’t help but speak up….laced with ambiguity.
We have lots of words…and we insulate them with many more.
We are allowed to try things. We are allowed to not know. We don’t have to be perfect.
But don’t hide behind the fear that goes with it. Own the ideas and decisions. Be clear about what you want,take responsibility if it doesn’t work, and keep going.