30fg Business Podcast For Designers

We never know what life is going to throw at us, whether it affects our business, our personal life or any of the spaces we move through. Like a game of snakes and ladders, with a bit of luck you might roll the right number and rapidly bypass a lot of the toil and effort of a steady progression. On the other hand, as luck might have it, the complete opposite might happen and you find yourself back where you started. Either way you can never be in complete control of the outcome. That's not to say you shouldn't try. The point of this analogy is not so much about luck, but about persistence. Many people who have enjoyed success of any kind will agree that you “make your own luck”. It’s a combination of hard work, persistence and putting yourself in the right place at the right time. Theoretically, if you just keep rolling the dice you will eventually win at snakes and ladders, but a sure way to fail is to stop rolling altogether. As creatives we invest a lot of time in our craft, on the one hand because we’re p