My first stab at the entrepreneurial mindset came in Los Angeles, when the little ad agency I was working for went belly-up.

I was in a production meeting at Warner Bros. for the second Steven Seagal movie, Hard to Kill. It was called Seven Year Storm at that time. The director was a gentleman named Bruce Malmuth.

We asked in last week’s post, “What do we do differently when we quit working on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company and go into business (or art or craft) for ourselves?”

When you and I worked on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, we had to worry about our production quotas, our standards of workmanship, and our supervisor’s evaluation of us.

I’ve always wondered how the great avatars and truly evolved personages respond to the boring, quotidian, zero-glam aspects of their lives.

People ask sometimes, “What time in your day do you first experience Resistance?” 

We were talking in an earlier post about the choreographer Twyla Tharp and her book, The Creative Habit. Let’s dig a little deeper into the principles that underlie Ms. Tharp’s mindset and that book.

We’ve been talking in the past few posts about self-reliance, self-sufficiency, the mindset of the entrepreneur and the professional.

“If you believe the critics when they tell you you’re good, you have to believe them when they tell you you’re bad.”