7 Pieces of Advice for Students in Creative Fields

Giving advice is uncomfortable.
Especially when no one asked for it.

It can sound arrogant, like claiming superior wisdom. But experience is not wisdom—it’s just accumulated friction.

When advice comes from experience rather than ego, it becomes care. It says: I stumbled here; maybe you don’t have to.

These seven pieces of advice are not rules.
They are invitations to make your path uniquely yours.

1. Use university as a playground

Study time is life time.

And life time is experimentation time.

Without play, there is no real learning.
Without play, no creativity.

University is not a checklist.
It is a laboratory.

Every lecture, every mistake, every conversation is a door.
Open it.

2. Don’t believe a single word without filtering it

If you see yourself as an empty container to be filled, something is wrong.

Knowledge is not transferred like money between accounts.
It activates when you pull.

Listen deeply.
Filter rigorously.

Otherwise you are storing information, not studying.

3. Become an expert in ignorance

What you already know is behind you.
What you don’t know is the frontier.

Master the art of questioning.

The best professors search with you.
The worst already know everything.

Conscious ignorance fuels intelligence.

4. Don’t “become” the profession. Embody it.

A profession is not a tight suit you must shrink into.

It is skin.

Let architecture, design, engineering, writing reformulate inside you.

Don’t adapt to the discipline.
Transform it.

5. Play is power

Play only exists when exercised.

The “later” moment never comes.

If you don’t play now, you probably won’t later.

Creativity begins before the job title.

6. Enter your profession to move it

Graduate to reshape it.

Bend it.
Pinch it.
Evolve it.

If you want to leave it untouched, textbooks already did the job.

7. Professions don’t exist

Only people practicing them do.

There is nothing you “must become.”
Only what you will do.

You don’t adapt to a field.
You redefine it.

Studying is not preparation for fitting in.
It is preparation for intervention.

Make your learning years a field of intelligent play.

Become not just professional—
become singular.