Win The Week: Mira Evnine's Can-Do Attitude

The best part about running a storytelling publication is that people share with us their top secrets for leading a successful creative career — and we steal them! In this newsletter, we pass on some actionable insights from our interview subjects to ramp up your productivity, make your ideas happen, and tackle the workweek with a focused mindset.?

Today, food stylist Mira Evnine shares one piece of wisdom that stayed with her?design school: a general, can-do approach to literally anything. (She can tell the difference between those who have not adopted this approach and those who have.) Apply this mindset to your next puzzle, mental block, or project.

"Let’s figure it out! This is a general approach that is both inherent to my personality but was also reinforced (formally and informally?) at RISD, where I went to school," says Mira Evnine . "There's no hidden meaning, it's really quite straightforward: the general can-do attitude that most puzzles, situations and/or challenges can be figured out," she says. "I became aware of this mantra and am reminded of how foundational it is to my way of approaching everything — big to the smaller — when I come up against people who do not have this approach. There's a distinct difference."

Read the full interview with Evnine here, where she shares how she works, including the secrets behind food styling; her idea to create a working farm similar to SoHo House; and why we eat with our eyes first.