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5 ideas you need to keep going When you are into something for a while, you will need conscious discipline to go on to higher levels. It is easy to get tired, bored or too caught up with your last success. As a good designer, you need to prove that your last success wasn't a fluke. Here are a few ideas I use that you can try...

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1. Finish, and next When you finish a big project, or reach a landmark, don't take a break. Move into your next idea or project. In fact, it is best to overlap the start of your next with the end of the current project. This way you will not have time to sit back and worry about the reactions to your just finished project.

I usually take my breaks in the middle of a project, that way an already ongoing idea gets a fresh boost. This also saves you from many quick heartburn reactions that people are used to giving.

2. Immerse When you are in a project, live it. You need to just drown yourself in the project so completely that it becomes an experience that by itself is so enjoyable that you won't need a party when you finish the project.

3. Look around

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Set a benchmark list of ten people who are like you - your competitors, people around you. Follow whatever they do acutely; don't judge them, but silently observe and learn. It is difficult, but if you can make friends with them, that is the best way to keep track of them and to see where you yourself are going.

4. Ask The easiest and most straight forward way to get something is to ask for it. You will be surprised how many people take a 'No' for granted and go about getting what they want in a convoluted way. Make it a habit to first ask. It saves you time from planning and scheming.

5. Collect routines It helps to get into routines. Set routines to wake up early, to start work at a certain time, not to have meetings at certain times, and socialize on certain days. This builds discipline in life and helps you focus on your work in a systemic way.

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LOOKING BEYOND THE WEAVE Textile Designer Sayan Chanda finds inspiration in the imperfect and uneven

When did textiles become your passion?

SC: I belong to a quintessential Bengali family. My father has always had a keen interest in art, my mother loves dance and theater, and my sister is a Kathak dancer by profession. Since childhood I would always look at my mother’s Jamdani saris in wonder and often help her pick one to wear. Basic ideas like different colors for the day and night, and the drape of each kind of fabric were already getting ingrained in me. At school, history, literature and art were always my favorite subjects and it didn’t take much thought for me to realize that after school I would not be veering towards commerce, engineering or legal studies like most of my friends.

At the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad the very first thing which struck me is how little we know about textiles. Before NID, my ideas regarding textiles and crafts were limited to my mother’s wardrobe. It was only in NID that I got to know so much more about it and am still learning. The transformation of singular threads into a piece of fabric through weaving left me awestruck. A few days into the Textile Design discipline in NID and I had realized how special it feels to weave even a small piece of fabric. The motions of the loom, the growth of the textile in front of your eyes, the way the yarns interact with each other, all these culminate into an evocative experience for the practitioner.

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The Art Of Filmmaking Nirali Thakker is both artist and filmmaker, and brings the same committed passion to both fields

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

NT: I began serious art at the age of four!

I drew everywhere, anywhere, all the time until my drawings were ‘discovered’ by my first sponsor - my mother. I had drawn all over my dad’s computer books and he was MAD! After that I earned my first drawing book and crayons. I still love the smell of crayons.

Growing up in Ahmedabad was wonderful. I was raised by a single mom, a very strong, fiercely independent woman, so delicate looking yet the strongest person I know. Education was important; she was very strict about that. She believed in dreaming big and was optimistic to a fault. She never told us, “No, you cannot do that - we cannot afford it!” I lost my mother to cancer when I was 16 but the things she taught me in my childhood kept me on track always. People who have parents underestimate how big a loss it is to not have them. To this date I use her image to pump up my optimism.

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