MANIFESTOS

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BRUCE MAU’S INCOMPLETE MANIFESTO FOR GROWTH

 Emphasis on process, change and the importance of mischief, play and mistakes

First ten (contains over 40 points)

1. 1. Allow events to change you. 

1. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

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  2. Forget about good. 


Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.



• • • • 3. Process is more important than outcome. 

When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

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  • 4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). 

Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

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                      • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5. Go deep. 

The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.

• 6. Capture accidents. 

The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

7. Study. 

A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

8. Drift. 




Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.



9. Begin anywhere. 


John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.



10. Everyone is a leader. 


Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.



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STYLE STATEMENT: A MANIFESTO OF STYLE




1. 1. Communicate who you are in all you do
• 2. Style matters
• 3. Self-awareness leads to true style
• 4. Accentuate the positive
• 5. People are like snowflakes – uniquely beautiful because of the details
• 6. Pay attention to what attracts you (pay attention to what you love)
• 7. Use your best every day
• 8. Choose from your heart
• 9. Beauty transforms
• 10. It’s always a good time to be yourself
• 11. Contrast makes things interesting
• 12. You are the designer of your life
• 13. Be selective about what you need
• 14. What works is what feels right
• 15. Commit to quality & it will commit to you

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S 10-POINT MANIFESTO FOR APPRENTICES

1. An honest ego in a healthy body.
2. An eye to see nature
3. A heart to feel nature
4. Courage to follow nature
5. The sense of proportion (humor)
6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work
7. Fertility of imagination
8. Capacity for faith and rebellion
9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance
10. Instinctive cooperation


My own manifesto


1. Don't worry - it might never happen
2. Be at your best, all day, every day
3. Be willing to go the extra mile
4. Always experiment, never settle
5. Process is more important than the outcome you produce