Neil Gaiman — Make Good Art

每當對人生遲疑或是失去動力的時候，總會想起Neil Geiman說的，將目標想像成一座山，思考自己做的行為，是會往山前進還是遠離，取捨要不要改變行動。

Something that worked for me was imagining that where I wanted to be — an author, primarily of fiction, making good books, making good comics and supporting myself through my words — was a mountain. A distant mountain. My goal.

And I knew that as long as I kept walking towards the mountain I would be all right. And when I truly was not sure what to do, I could stop, and think about whether it was taking me towards or away from the mountain. I said no to editorial jobs on magazines, proper jobs that would have paid proper money because I knew that, attractive though they were, for me they would have been walking away from the mountain. And if those job offers had come along earlier I might have taken them, because they still would have been closer to the mountain than I was at the time.

（from: James Clear’s Great Speeches page）

“Make Good Art”

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我的因應之道是，想像我希望達成的目標－成為一位作家，主要是寫小說；創作美妙的文字、漫畫，創作精彩的戲劇－勉勵自己在夢想的道路上堅持下去。

想像那是一座山，一座位於遠處的山，那就是我的目標。我知道，只要以堅定的步伐朝那座山邁進，就能達成目標。當我不確定該怎麼做時，就停下腳步，思考這麼做會使我朝著那座山邁進，還是會使我遠離那座山。

（翻譯來源：尼爾．蓋曼為2012年藝術大學畢業生演講）

無論發生好事或壞事，都要退一步想想是靠近心中的大山，還是遠離。