Rules

Rule #1: Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

Rule #2: General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.

Rule #3: General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.

Rule #4: Consider everything an experiment.

Rule #5: Be self disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Rule #6: Nothing is a mistake. There no win and no fail. There's only make.

Rule #7: The only rule is work. If you work, it will lead to something. It's the people who do all the work all the time who eventually catch onto things.

Rule #8: Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

Rule #9: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

Rule #10: "We're breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving room for X quantities." -John Cage