1. Every day is Groundhog Day.
2. Build a bliss station.
3. Forget the noun, do the verb.
4. Make gifts.
5. The ordinary + extra attention = the extraordinary
6. Slay the art monsters.
7. You’re allowed to change your mind.
8. When in doubt, tidy up.
9. Demons hate fresh air.
10. Plant your garden.

Rutina

There will be good days and bad days. Days when you feel inspired and days when you want to walk off a bridge. (And some days when you can't tell the difference.)

A daily routine will get you through the day and help you make the most of it. (...) When you don't know what to do next, your routine tells you.

When you don't have much time, a routine helps you make the little time you have count. When you have all the time in the world, a routine helps you make sure you don't waste it.

To establish your own routine, you have to spend some time observing your days and your moods. Where are the free spaces in your schedule? What could you cut out of your day to make time? Are you an early riser or a night owl? (I've met very few people who love working in the afternoon. "I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night," wrote Charles Dickens.) Are there silly rituals or superstitions that get you in a creative mood?

What your daily routine consists of is not that important. What's important is that the routine exists. Cobble together your own routine, stick to it most days, break from it once in a while for fun, and modify it as necessary.

Revisión y planificación

Before you go to bed, make a list of anything you did accomplish, and write down a list of what you want to get done tomorrow.

Motivación

We're now trained to heap praise on our loved ones by using market terminology. The minute anybody shows any talent for anything, we suggest they turn it into a profession. This is our best compliment: telling somebody they're so good at what they love to do they could make money at it.

One of the easiest ways to hate something you love is to turn it into your job: taking the thing that keeps you alive spiritually and turning it into the thing that keeps you alive literally.

We used to have hobbies; now we have "side hustles."

Cambios

If you want to change your life, change what you pay attention to. "We give things meaning by paying attention to them, " Jessa Crispin writes, "and so moving your attention from one thing to another can absolutely change your future."

Of course, to change your mind is to do some real thinking. Thinking requires an environment in which you can try out all sorts of ideas and not be judged for them. To change your mind, you need a good place to have some bad ideas.

¿Y ahora, qué?

• Pon tu teléfono en modo avión.
• Escribe varias listas.
• Contrata a un niño para que te enseñe a jugar.
• Haz un regalo a alguien.
• Ordena.
• Échate una siesta.
• Pasea un buen rato.

• Henry David Thoreau, Journals
• Ursula Franklin, The real world of technology
• Neil Postman, Amusing ourselves to death
• David Allen, Getting Things Done
• Tove Jansson, Moomin
• Andrew Epstein, Attention equals life
• Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
• James P. Carse, Finite and infinite games
• Keri Smith, The wander society
• Alan Jacobs, How to think

"The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from."
—Lynda Barry

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• La compré como auto regalo de cumpleaños durante un festival de cine de Sitges.
• La llevaba puesta el día que conocí a mi mujer.
• En la oficina me preguntaron por qué llevaba puesta una camiseta de Einstein.

El camino de casa a la oficina es interesante. Voy hacia la oficina cuando escucho que alguien se dirige insistentemente hacia mi. No entiendo muy bien lo que dice pero entonces señala mi camiseta y entiendo: "Es de una película".

De repente estoy hablando de cine con un desconocido en la calle. Sobre la película They Live en concreto. Hablamos sobre los actores y me doy cuenta de que no recuerdo quien era el protagonista. Primero afirmo que es Kurt Russell. Aparece en varias películas de Carpenter y es el primero que me viene a la cabeza. Pero el desconocido me hace ver que estoy equivocado. El actor es Roddy Piper. Me da un poco de vergüenza equivocarme así. Con la camiseta puesta.

Hablamos un poco más y sigo camino a la oficina. Lo primero que hago al abrir el ordenador es pedir una copia de la película.

Look for something new to learn, and when you find it, dedicate yourself to learning it out in the open.
Document your progress and share as you go so that others can learn along with you. Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

Busca algo nuevo que aprender y, cuando lo encuentres, dedícate a aprenderlo abiertamente.
Documenta tu progreso y comparte lo que aprendas de tal manera que otros puedan aprender contigo. Enseña tu trabajo y, cuando la gente correcta aparezca, préstales atención, porque ellos tendrán un montón que enseñarte.

Los puntos que sirven de guía para el libro son:

1. You don’t have to be a genius.
2. Think process, not product.
3. Share something small every day.
4. Open up your cabinet of curiosities.
5. Tell good stories.
6. Teach what you know.
7. Don’t turn into human spam.
8. Learn to take a punch.
9. Sell out.
10. Stick around.

"If you never go to work, you never get to leave work."

Si nunca vas al trabajo, nunca podrás salir del trabajo.