ms_tiahmarie 's review for:

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer

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- I faced a bewildering and bottomless chasm between what I wanted to become - a "Real Artist" - and how one actually, well..."becomed" it. -

- It was essential to feel thankful for the few who stopped to watch or listen, instead of wasting energy on resenting the majority who passed me by. -

"What's that terrifyin' sound?" asks the friend.
"Its my dog," said the farmer. "He's sittin' on a nail."
"Why doesn't he just sit up and get off it?" asks the friend.
The farmer deliberates on this and replies: "Doesn't hurt enough yet."

- Asking is an act of intimacy and trust. Begging is a function of fear, desperation or weakness. Those who must beg "demand" our help; those who ask have faith in our capacity for love and in our desire to share with one another. -

- I realize now that I felt chronically guilty about having chosen to be an artist. I didn't understanding this at the time; I just felt a consistent kind of inward torture, pulled towards a life in art while simultaneously feeling foolish for having made that choice. -

- ...be perfectly Tetris'd...-

-- Effective crowdfunding is not about relying on the kindness of strangers, it's about relying on the kindness of your crowd. There's a difference. -