“Three lies we learned in school:
1. answering questions as opposed to asking them
2. endless memorization as a learning method; and
3. worshipping at the foot of success rather than understanding failure.”

From Good magazine

“Burnout is not biting off more than you can chew…
…it is biting off more than you can savor.”

“The human desire to never be wrong is the biggest enemy of innovation.” —Joshua Blankenship

ma c’e’ di buono che al momento giusto tu sai diventare un altro.

In un attimo tu, sei grande grande grande

come te, sei grande solamente tu

Eataly, a giant market for artisanal Italian food products that opened in Turin two years ago, signed a lease this morning for an even larger location at 200 Fifth Avenue.

With 32,000 square feet of food halls and restaurants, Eataly New York will be twice the size of the Turin original. The partners in the venture are B&B Hospitality Group, the company behind nearly 20 restaurants around the country operated by Joseph and Lidia Bastianich and Mario Batali, along with Oscar Farinetti and Luca Bassigo, the Italian founders and managing partners of Eataly.

There will also be an 8,000 square foot rooftop garden, although the plans for that space are still being worked out. “I’m not sure whether it will be for beer, sausage and pizza or just beer and sausage,” Mr. Batali said in a phone interview today from a beach in Spain.

At one point, the partners had hoped to open Eataly New York this year, but those plans have been pushed back a little. “It will open in exactly one year,” Mr. Batali said. “I guarantee it.”

There are now Eatalys in Milan, Bologna and Tokyo in addition to Turin.

From the nyt

I look to those who have been in the business of design for a while and wonder; “How are they still alive?… How do you get from here to there?… What were they like at the beginning?” A life in design—and a life with passion—consumes you, demands of you, ages you. Every day is a balancing act; between what you can do today, and what you want to do tomorrow. The constraints of the present—of budget, project, team, organization, and most of all your skill set—hold you back. The glittering tomorrow—limitless and with grand promises—laughs at today and demands a better you.

How do you balance? How do you live a life in design? You forget about time. Balance is about gut, passion, and confidence.

You play it by ear, you look around, you open yourself to everything, in a constant state of wonder and have fun.

You love, your blood boils, you go to battle and win or loose, you shout, you show up, you stay late, you care.

You stand for something, you want to make mistakes, you look straight ahead, and you challenge.

It’s easier said than done. But you try.

A design life is purposeful

it is determined by how the lives of others are given dignity,

it is most courageous when it is conducted beyond personal aspirations.

It is the endless pursuit of beauty on behalf of others.

A life in design demands that the creative spirit be disciplined

to realize ideas

to see what others can not fathom and

to accept the responsibility for the implications of creative action.

From a post I found on facebook…

Procrastination isn’t always adaptive but it can be for some people. For those high in “need for achievement,” procrastination is a way to make a simple task more challenging and therefore more engaging and interesting. Need for achievement is an unconscious motive outlined by Henry Murray.