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My friend and I were just talking about Bruce Mau last night and when this post from Kitsune Noir popped up from his Incomplete Manifesto, I knew I had to share it. Whether you’ve read it before or not, it’s a great time to take a moment and relive the principles and mottos he talks about for growth and follow them for a fantastic 2010. Some of my favorites are:

2. Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

6. Capture accidents.The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

25. Don’t clean your desk.You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.

His words really inspire me and I hope they do for you, too. Read the manifesto in it’s incomplete entirety here.

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Sharon is a graphic designer and illustrator from Columbus, Ohio who loves what she does. Sharon graduated with a BFA in Visual Communication Design from Kent State University and has been creating and drawing since before she could walk.