Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing etc and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
I'd go down to the end of my street to a garage that had a certain feeling about it or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
As a part of preparing those lawsuits learning about those lawsuits I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.
The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.
Currently I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.