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Things I Learned Along The Way

Don't like what's out there? STRIKE! Magazine explain how to go it alone

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, STRIKE! Magazine demonstrate what to do when you're fucked off with the way things are: launch a subversive magazine and started exploring other planets.

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Iris Skateboards' George Rocha knows you have to give to receive

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Iris Skateboards founder George Rocha explains why you have to give to receive.

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Hip hop duo Atmosphere on a quarter-century of hustle

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, rapper Slug, of hip hop duo Atmosphere, explains how the group has managed to stay at the top of the independent heap.

  • Music
  • Huck HQ / Nick McGregor

How Nell Zink threw insecurities aside to launch her literary career

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Nell Zink explains how she found the confidence to kick off a sparkling literary career in her fifties.

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  • Huck HQ / Shelley Jones

Community is the true star of Russell Brand's revolution

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, comedian turned revolutionary Russell Brand explains that the focus and force of the revolution are the communities fighting for survival against social cleansing.

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A desert sunrise helped everything make sense for surfer Kassia Meador

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Kassia Meador shares how she found fulfilment and happiness in the California desert, by letting go of the idea that she should have only one career.

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Brother Ali: The Muslim covert albino rapper

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, rapper Brother Ali discusses how hip hop became a portal to a new faith, and how that faith is now his focus.

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  • Huck HQ / Adam Woodward

This American Life's Stephanie Foo landed her dream job by embracing failure

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Stephanie Foo tells how she got her dream job - as a producer at This American Life - by being really good at failing.

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  • Andrea Kurland

Mr. Bingo found success in art by learning to say 'no'

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, illustrator Mr. Bingo talks about how embracing his funny bone launched his career.

  • Art
  • Huck HQ / Samantha Maine

Kazuo Ishiguro had to work a tough job to truly understand human nature

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Kazuo Ishiguro discusses how formative years spent as a social worker altered his worldview and shaped his writing.

  • Culture
  • Huck HQ / D'Arcy Doran

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