When We Sit Down To Work, We

Ignorance And Arrogance Are The Artist's And Entrepreneur's Indispensable Allies. She Must Be Clueless Enough To Have No Idea How Difficult Her Enterprise Is Going To Be And Cocky Enough To Believe She Can Pull It Off Anyway."

The Working Artist Will Not Tolerate Trouble In Her Life Because She Knows Trouble Prevents Her From Doing Her Work. The Working Artist Banishes From Her World All Sources Of Trouble. She Harnesses The Urge For Trouble And Transforms It In Her Work.

Is There A Spiritual Element To Creativity? Hell, Yes. Our Mightiest Ally (our Indispensable Ally) Is Belief In Something We Cannot See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Or Feel.

We Need To Ascend Beyond Our Own Petty Resistance, Our Own Negative Self-judgment And Self-sabotage, Our Own "i'm Not Worthy" Mind-set.

There's A Phrase You Hear In Israel: "we're Not Jews, We're Israelis." What That Means Is That The Stereotype We're Familiar With Here In The States Of The Diaspora Jew, I.e. Jews In America Or Europe Or Russia, Etc. Does Not Fit At All With The Reality Of The Homegrown "sabras" Of Israel.