thoughts on storytelling

Everyone wants to succeed, no matter what they pursue, but the secret to success doesn't lie in the how much you want to succeed, it lies in how hard you are willing to work for the success. You will never change where you are by continue doing what got you there. You must be willing to sacrifice your comforts and do what the people around you aren't willing to do. This is all common sense. Yet there always seems to be something holding us back.

We value knowledge. As group living animals we feel that knowledge moves us up the hierarchy. But what we fail to see that our knowledge often makes us narrow-minded. We may say that we seek to learn more, but we mainly seek to strengthen our opinion and seldom to disprove it, fearing that disproving it may make us seem stupid. We act as solid rock instead as moldable clay and by doing this we stop to develop, stop moving forward. To develop as people we should learn from those around us that are wiser. Those who accept that they don't know everything and those who aren't afraid asking questions will make them look stupid. Those who allow themselves to develop. We should learn from children.

When I'm on the journey of making film and hit an obstacle, a wall that stops me in my path, the solution to breaking it down tends to always be the same. SIMPLIFY.