>> Learn how to be a salesman, even if you have no interest in business or sales.
As a creative freelancer, you're going to have to be a good salesman for yourself,
in the sense of you need to go out and find work.
You need to convince people that you're worthy of hiring for a particular project.
But it doesn't end there.
You have to constantly be able to sell your ideas in order to keep them together
and avoid them getting ripped apart by budget or somebody else's idea
of what they think something should be or an ego that gets in the way.
You need to be able to stand up for your concept to have it --
have it so clear inside your own mind that you can explain it that effortlessly
and easily to other people and sell it.
And that process never stops.
It doesn't stop when you get the job.
It doesn't stop when the design is done.
You will constantly be in a position where you need to sell people on what you're working on.