Take all your experience with you:
Everything that you’ve done with your life before this moment in your career or what have you has a use. You can use all that experience to further what it is that you do, or will do. It’s all useful and relevant. Take the opportunity to learn all you can and use it to you advantage and you’ll be surprise how far you can get.
There’s always someone better or more creative…so arrogance is a waste of time:
It truly doesn’t matter how great or wonderful or creative you think you are. The fact of life is that thousands of people emerge into the same position as you every minute, and there’s always going to be someone who’s as good or better than you are. This is a simple fact and it means that any attachment you might have to your pride or the fact that you might be good at something, drop it. There’s always someone better so the best possible thing you can do for yourself is understand that and work hard to make yourself better, always staying at the top of your game. Arrogance gets knocked off the pedestal, skill and hard work gets supported.
Know your stuff…even if the industry is always changing:
The digital media industry, even fashion and all other facets of design are always changing. In photography you used to have to know your trade well, and whatever you could not accomplish through sheer skill could be done in post production. Now, a photographer doesn’t need photo skills as much as Photoshop skills in order to create good photos. But the fact still remains that good skills and truly knowing your industry is what is going to make you great at what you do. Take your time and really learn what you’re doing, whether that’s photography, design, web design or what have you. You will always be better when you work to learn those fundamentals.
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