Musician/author Andrew W.K. shared some great advice on success in his weekly advice column for The Village Voice.
A struggling musician asked how to become a successful musician and Andrew W.K. shared some words that can benefit anyone working on creative projects. Check it out:
The traditional modern concept of success — being the measurement of monetary income as the primary indicator of effort and mastery in a certain field — is essentially a scam, a con, and a lie. To equate success with an amount of money earned, or an amount of fame achieved, is at best an unfortunate miscomprehension of the very nature of success. At worst, it’s a malicious distortion.
To truly succeed at something is to devote yourself to what you love, and to allow that devotion to bring out the best and most admirable qualities inside of you, so that in the end, you ultimately succeed at the only effort that really matters: becoming a better person than you were.
Andrew W.K. is currently working on a book for Simon & Schuster called The Party Bible.