The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Amanda Palmer

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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing choices. You just can't learn to wear a fuckin' sweater.
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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
The entertainment industry, reflecting the world at large, has been obsessed with the wrong question: how do we MAKE people pay for content? What if we started thinking about it the other way around: how do we LET people pay for content?
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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
How do we create a world in which people don't think of art just as a product, but as a relationship?
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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
I think the real risk is the choice to disconnect. To be afraid of one another.
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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
It was about the value coming from the taker of the flower, the hearer of the song, the heart of the beholder. Being painted white and standing on a box, the crowdsurfing, the Kickstarter, ringing a stranger's doorbell in the middle of the night; I no longer see these things as risk. I see them as acts of trust.
I think the real risk is the choice to disconnect. To be afraid of one another.
We make countless choices every day whether to ask or to turn away from one another. Wondering whether it's too much to ask the neighbor to feed the cat. The decision to turn away from a partner, to turn off the light instead of asking what's wrong.
Asking for help requires authenticity, and vulnerability.
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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
I think human beings are fundamentally generous, but our instinct to be generous gets broken down.
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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding.
To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is what art does. Good or bad, it imagines the inside, the heart of the other, whether that heart is full of light or trapped in darkness.
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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
Nakedness with strangers is such a powerful feeling, even when – especially when – there's no sex involved.

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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
Effective crowdfunding is not about relying on the kindness of strangers, it's about relying on the kindness of your crowd.
There's a difference.
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Аноним16 февраля 2016 г.
Conditional love is:
I will only love you if you love me.
Unconditional love is:
I will love you even if you do not love me.
It's really easy to love passing strangers unconditionally.
They demand nothing of you.
It's really hard to love people unconditionally when they can hurt you.
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