Ivan+

During this bear market I am concerned only with: 1. Unique and interested holders. Not floor price. No arbitrarily or artificially supported floors. Anti fragility can be achieved with community not false pretense. I am candid and honest with my holders, and they stick with me for being transparent and working every day. 2. Getting ideas out as fast as possible. “A river of material flows through us. When we share our works and our ideas, they are replenished. If we block the flow by holding them all inside, the river cannot run and new ideas are slow to appear. In the abundant mindset, the river never runs dry. Ideas are always coming through. And an artist is free to release them with the faith that more will arrive. If we live in a mindset of scarcity, we hoard great ideas.” - Rick Ruben on the Scarcity Mindset 3. New technology. When I got here, the value prop was leveraging blockchain technology. Not chasing zero with a bunch of fake loyal degens treating projects like shitcoins. NFTs are dead. Art on chain is forever. I want to onboard the next million, not bleed the last 2k. 4. Friendships. I’ve told every single new artists this for the last 1.5 years. Your support group is everything. Not your shill. Not your last sale. Not your next one. Opportunities react to networks. ALL things in life are WHO you know, up until the point where you can safely say you’re Him. But who wants the crown if there’s no one to celebrate with. 5. Practice, not competition. I practice art every single day. Every single day. I do not miss a day. I am trying to be the best me. Not the best anyone else. 6. Consuming great art. “Level up your taste. The objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness. So we can better make the thousands of choices that might ultimately lead to our own great work.” - Rick Ruben 7. Go to the fucking gym more days than not. Mental and physical health > Would love to hear your strategies for weathering the storm.