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Don't Be Vanilla. Please Don't Be Vanilla.
I remember reading a quote about six years ago from a major label executive:
"Did you know that vanilla is the most popular ice cream flavor? It sells more than any other variety. What I do as a major label rep is find the very best vanilla."
I hope you don't feel the same way. I consider vanilla to be pretty boring.
What's the alternative? Well, maybe first admitting that being different is scary. Maybe also admitting that being different may also bring the most rewards eventually. Nobody can say so for sure, but nobody will say that being different is boring.
Twyla Tharp secretly wants to play feedback guitar.
As Twyla Tharp lovingly puts it in her wonderful book, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life:
I want to place myself in a bubble of monomaniacal absorbtion where I'm fully invested in the task at hand. ...I list the biggest distractions in my life and make a pact with myself to do without them for a week.
Great advice. For me? Say goodbye to email on the weekends. Want to get a hold of me to hang out? You better call me. No more books for awhile too. Also, no more blogging twice a day...
