Benjamin 🖤

Most of us don't listen with the intent to understand. We listen with the intent to reply. - Stephen Covey

One thing that i’ve noticed since leaving uni is that you no longer have that default support structure. No, now it’s just you. All by your self.  But it doesn’t have to be!

Maven. A trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others. The word maven comes from Hebrew, meaning "one who understands", based on an accumulation of knowledge. Maven.

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Yugen (n.) Japanese: an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words.

Don't watch me, fam.

⬜️ (at White Cube)

Can't believe it's been two years since I seen this guy! #jethroart #ManLikeJethro #bricklane #insta #instagood #illustration

Ahh Rennes, I miss you.