I am giving a Masterclass today at the Palm Springs International Shortfest. It’s a chance for everyone to get a double dose of Double Hope as my wife’s latest short film CHINA CONNECTION: JERRY is also premiering at 5P in the “Secret Lives Of Others” program. I hope to see you at both!
My lecture is “The Artist As Entrepreneur: My Secret Formula For Success In The Era Of Digital Transformation” but I find that if I really want this to resonate, I either need more time to talk or people should arrive having already accepted some truths. What truths? These truths:
As tough as failure may be, something good can come of it – an opportunity for improvement. There is a stigma and shame that tends to come with failure, so much so that people rarely accept “failure” as an actual reason for failure. We 
The comparison with a novel or with watching a very long movie is a good one for yet another reason: serialization means that you cannot watch the episodes in whichever order they reach you. You have to watch the whole season as if you were watching a 12-hour movie. Terence Winter, creator of Boardwalk Empire and one of the writers for The Sopranos) talks about how the effort still goes towards ensuring that each episode may stand alone, as if it were a mini-movie. So when you just happen to watch this one it still has its own beginning, middle and end, and it makes sense. But it’s like one chapter in a book. To really appreciate it you have to watch the whole series, as you would read a book. 