Create Or Hate: Successful People Make Things by Dan Norris

Author:Dan Norris [Norris, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2016-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

Get better at knowing yourself — not in a judgemental way, but in a real way that’s in touch with your true self.

If you notice you’re being negative, it’s OK to say to yourself, “I’m being negative now, I’m helping Hate, so just stop it.” It’s not OK to say, “I’m so negative.” That’s training your mind to believe that you are a negative person, and before long, you will believe it.

Be More Grateful, Be More Creative

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in

your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

—Eckhart Tolle

A lot of Hate stems from a lack of gratitude. Having a lack of gratitude will lead directly to negativity, which is the currency of Hate. If you can become more grateful, you will become less hateful and, therefore, more creative.

Gratitude also kills anger and stress. It’s very hard to be grateful and angry at the same time, which means gratitude directly increases relaxation — the state where creativity thrives. We’ll talk more about relaxation in a bit.

When people complain about something someone has made, it’s often that they are simply not grateful enough for the amount of time and effort that went into making it. You can still display gratitude for the time and effort spent creating something, without having to like or buy the end product itself.

Before you start whinging about the $5 you just paid for your coffee, consider what has gone into it.

Seeds are planted (in the perfect environment), the seedlings are replanted into individual pots, watered regularly and shaded from bright sunlight before being re-planted in soil. Three to four years later, the trees bear fruit known as cherries. These are generally hand-picked by people, often in poorer countries, who pick 100-200 cherries a day and are paid based on their haul.

The cherries are processed using a complicated, mostly manual method of wet or dry processing. The beans are hulled, polished, graded, and sorted before being packaged and loaded onto ships for export. The beans are then roasted locally, an expensive process to bring out the oils that deliver the coffee flavour. They are then transported to coffee shops, ground on-site, expertly brewed and delivered to you hot and fresh by well-paid local staff, in a matter of minutes. $5 doesn’t really seem like such a big deal now, does it?

Here are some other practical ways to become more grateful:

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