Wednesday, August 14, 2019

34. Being Your 0wn Story

Designers who make themselves the story amaze me with their ability to star in their own tales be compelling while showing vulnerabilities—all of which makes them more inspiring and human.

Two designers who are more than "just designers" (whatever that means) come to mind. One is the incomparable Debbie Millman, who's a star educator, interviewer, and emphasizer.  The other is the  arresting, smart, superhero-like Jessica Walsh, whose bold visuals, smart strategy, and admission of eating disorders or problems in early life make her planning prowess and launch of her new agency* all the more impressive.

Both women have a capacity to engage and listen. Debbie does deep and disarming research and excels at empathy. I imagine Jessica does the same, based on her questions to her Instagram followers.

Hard work, strategy and empathy contribute to their stardom (which, I imagine, they don't regard as stardom but as the outgrowth of their divine dissatisfaction, constant striving).

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*Agency. To do. To act. To manage.
All of the above are active, making your story as opposed to letting the story happen.

Origin of agency
1650–60;<Medieval Latina gentia, equivalentt o Latinag-(root of agere to do, act, manage) -entia-ency



(For August 12, 2019)

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