You were born knowing who you are. Every individual arrives with an original template of their destiny and true nature. But from the moment you arrived, society tried to dump a pile of doubt on your head — a clipboard, a government stamp, eager to assign you a number before your first breath.

Trusting the template means stripping away those labels and listening to your own internal pulse — not the noise of the system.

Skills are tools — not gods to be worshipped. Technical mastery is necessary, but it becomes a prison when it stops serving expression. Learn the rules of your trade specifically so you have the power to break them.

Imposter syndrome is not caused by lack of skill. It's caused by too much skill-learning and not enough listening to your own voice. When you look at a painting of a wolf and only see the eyelashes, you've missed the work entirely. Learn what you need. Hit the humility button. Get back to work.

Creativity is not always a desperate chase. There is a necessary practice in laying down in the forest — letting the work find you. Stop smothering the process with the need to control.

Back off. Assume a humble pose. Trust, watch, listen. The work will eventually slide over you and melt into you like a glove. Let the encounter with the muse be one where you are the prey — allowing the work to haunt and taunt you until it takes hold.

Institutional authority — universities, bureaucracies, elitist art industries — should never be the source of your internal navigation. These entities are often driving drunk on power and arrogance.

While you may have to deal with them on the road of life, you must never outsource your authority to them. Maintain fierce autonomy. Refuse the dirty crime money of institutional validation. Keep your own compass — it's the only one that knows where you're actually going.

The artist must alchemize pain, anger, and raw experience into something that serves. A "professional hurt person" keeps their wounds open — pushing a dirty stick into the festering meat because they've found rewards in victimhood. This is a trap.

The hero stance requires you to close the wound. Grab your needle. Keep the sewing machine running. Turn your misery into a quilt. Transform the origin of your pain into a new creation that radiates beauty.

To remain fertile, you must leave space for the unknown. Avoid the trap of being a smarty pants. The system lies about the nature of reality to make it seem certain and manageable.

Consider: the world paints the rooster as arrogant and nasty. In reality, he starves himself so his hens eat first. He guards them. He watches for hawks. If the world can get the simple nature of a rooster that wrong — what else are they lying to you about? Protect your "dunnos." Stay curious.

Power lies in the sublime relationship between the rational intellect and the irrational imagination. The intellect lives in the mind. The imagination exists offshore — like a tax haven. They are a team of massive potential.

Picture the Hero: a lone figure in a dusty street, a glowing star of intellect and spirit shining from their chest. While the rational suits around them cower in fear of the unknown, the Hero stands firm — bridging the gap between the seen and the unseen. Respect both sides. Always both sides.