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Seven Point Sundayđź’ˇby Kabir Sehgal

I help you build your portfolio career. Get 7 actionable ideas on Sundays. From a Multi-Grammy & Multi-Emmy Winner, New York Times bestselling author (21 books), ex-J.P. Morgan banker, Navy Vet. Join 10k readers.

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7PS: Creative work starts in the margins 🖼️

Read time: 1 minute, 375 words. Creative work rarely starts full-time. It starts in the margins. Anthony Trollope was a Post Office civil servant who rose early to write before work, measuring his output in 15-minute blocks. Walker Evans took night jobs so he could photograph during the day, then worked for the government documenting Depression-era America. Raymond Chandler spent years as an oil-company executive before losing his job at 44 and turning seriously to detective fiction. Three...

about 1 hour ago • 1 min read

Read time: 1 minute, 353 words. Years ago, I spent months talking with a composer about scoring a video game. When the client finally gave the green light, he emailed to say he could no longer do it. On another project, after months of similar conversations, a different composer also had to bow out. But she called me. So when the next project came along, who do you think I asked first? There's a lesson in how we say no. It depends on who is asking, what the project is, and how much time has...

7 days ago • 1 min read

Read time: 1 minute, 338 words. One of the most important pieces in music history was booed so loudly the dancers couldn't hear the orchestra. At the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, people shouted, fought and caused enough chaos that the choreography had to be counted from backstage. Today, the work is considered revolutionary. There's a useful reminder here. When you do something genuinely new, the first reaction may not be applause. Sometimes "they don’t get it" comes...

14 days ago • 1 min read