Sister Corita Kent's 10 rules for students
On February 16, 2025 By thesuccessmanual Topic: Remarkable
Sister Korita was an art teacher, famous for a 1985 love stamp and for having been an inspiration to many creative people including Buckminster Fuller and the iconoclast writer Henry Miller
Sister Corita's 10 rules:
1. Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
2. General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.
3. General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.
4. Consider everything an experiment.
5. Be self-disciplined.
6. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail.
7. The only rule is work.
8. Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They are different processes.
9. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It is lighter than you think.
10. We are breaking all of the rules.
In short: Always be around. Come or go to everything always. Go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully often. Save everything, it might come in handy later.
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[From the 100 Ways To Be Being Remarkable Series, a special project that brings you business and self-development advice from The Success Manual. ]
