I think it’s important to remember how to create. I think we get too caught up in chasing money or outrunning failure that we lose touch with a part of ourself that is important. If you know how to create something, then you have a fundamental understanding of how your mind works and solves problems. If you build something, knit, write, bake from scratch, compose something, you are no longer a tool of the machine and you have gained control of your destiny in an important way. Even if you don’t see it at first, you can feel it. Just trust me on this one. I was a tool for most of my adult life. I was working at a terrible job and doing whatever I could to forget about it at the end of the day. I had no control over my thoughts and I only looked forward to my paycheck. I decided one day that it wasn’t good enough and I picked up a pair of knitting needles and some cheapy yarn at the big discount store in town. After a lot of false starts I taught my self to knit a pair of socks. Lame right? Not really, that gave me the confidence to try other things and stretch my creativity further, I taught myself HTML, then CSS, I am currently working as an e commerce professional and studying PHP. I am interning at a local design studio. I interviewed for the position while wearing my lucky socks.