Do What You Don’t Know
If you know exactly what you’re doing, you’re not creating — you’re repeating. Experience can be a beautiful curse. After 25 years in this field, I’ve learned how easy it is to hide behind what you already know. You get faster, smoother, safer — and slowly, you stop being dangerous.
But creativity isn’t safe. It’s not supposed to be.To make something alive — something that moves — you have to step into what you don’t know. That’s the space where real ideas live: uncomfortable, unpredictable, sometimes impossible.
Will you know how to do it? No.
Will it scare you? Yes.
Will it be worth it? Always.
Fear is proof you’re onto something real. It means you’re not just repeating old tricks — you’re discovering new ones.
Even after all these years, that’s still the reason I love this work. No matter how many brands I’ve built or ideas I’ve buried, chasing the unknown is still the only path that feels honest.
Because doing what you know is maintenance.
Doing what you don’t know is creation.
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