Ask Yourselves These 10 Questions And Then Go Off Conquer The World

Question eleven, sixteen years later: am I doing what I love every day? Still yes. Which means, by the logic of my own text, I never had to quit — though I did have to keep changing what the work looked like, because the world made sure the question never got comfortable.

Here is what I have learned since 2010: the ten questions were right, but they were also the easy part. The hard part is that what you love turns out to be a moving target. The tools of my trade have been reinvented more times than I can count — lately by machines that can sketch, write and render alongside us — and every reinvention re-asks the question with a sharper edge: is it still the craft you love, or just the habit?

The halo of passion holds up, by the way. I still see it form around people who mean it, and I have never once seen it successfully faked. So, question twelve, for whoever is reading: am I doing what I love every day? Careful. It only accepts one answer, and it checks.