Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life

Written by James Victore and Danielle LaPorte

Narrated by James Victore

"James Victore is a dangerous man. His ideas on optimizing your creativity, doing wow work, and building a life that inspires will devastate your limits. And show you how to win. Read this book fast." —Robin Sharma, bestselling author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Begin before you're ready and other lessons on living a happy and creative life: Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of bold creativity. In Feck Perfuction, Victore will guide you through all the twists, trials, and triumphs of starting your creative career, from finding your voice to picking the right moment to start a project (hint: It's now). Bring your biggest, craziest, most revolutionary ideas, and he will give you the kick in the pants you need to make them real.

• Filled with humor and stern advice, Feck Perfuction provides "dangerous ideas" for unearthing your authentic self, including "the things that made you weird as a kid make you great today," "the struggle is everything," and many more.
• No matter what industry or medium you work in, this book will help you live, work, and create freely and fearlessly.
• James Victore is an award-winning designer for bold believers, an advocate for creativity, a sought after teacher and speaker, and an artist whose work is exhibited around the globe.

Fans of Austin Kleon's Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad and Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative will love James Victore's inspiring book on embracing authenticity and unleashing your creative self.

Begin before you're ready, live dangerously, take a risk, and other lessons on living a purpose-driven life

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Release date: Jun 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781452184982

James Victore

James Victore is a designer for bold believers, an advocate for creativity, and an artist whose work has been exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He lectures and teaches regularly around the globe. He lives, loves, and works in Texas.

Reviews for Feck Perfuction

[bkjake · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I had hoped for some real inspiration for my creativity, but I was disappointed. The pithy little nibbles were very shallow; I've seen deeper memes on Facebook.

[figre · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

In life, every once in a while, you do something smart. My most recent (rare) wise decision was to wait on reviewing James Victore’s book, giving it a second chance.

Good idea.

Every book needs its own state of mind for reading. Any book, movie, television show, photograph, essay, any art of any kind asks the participant to approach with both an open mind and a mind attuned to what is being said. In some cases, no matter how open or attuned the mind, the product being ingested turns out not to have been worth the time or effort involved. And sometimes, if the participant manages to momentarily be self-aware enough, that participant realizes that he or she didn’t approach it correctly, takes a moment (an hour, a day, a month, a lifetime) and then comes back to try again.

My first read through Victore’s book left me cold. I felt I was wasting my time on cliched platitudes and hackneyed ideas I had seen many times before. Yet, I was concerned that the fault (dear Brutus) lay with myself rather than the book. That was based on the idea that this is the type of book I generally enjoy – even if I am not a raving fan, I am usually not a rabid hater. And when I finished my first run through of the book (lo, those many months ago) I found myself to be more rabid than raver.

And so I waited. And it was a good idea.

I am partway through my second try and I am now a fan of the book. Yes, there are a lot of things many of us have seen before. But there is much that is reframed, much that is fresh, and much that should make anybody think. And that means it is a book worth having, reading, and rereading.

Let me provide just one example (a part that I just read.) It is titled “Your ego can’t dance.” Yes, we all know “Dance like nobody is watching” and the fact that we hide behind the need to not look foolish. But Victore talks about the concept in a different enough way that it made me start thinking of the issue in different ways (and, in the process, helped me come up with some new approaches in the way I write and speak about the subject.) Let me quote. “…the music builds and there’s a cue: ‘Everybody dance now!” But, not everybody dances…cuz it’s a test. It’s a test of how comfortable you are in your own skin.”

A test. What a great, fresh way to look at the concept.

Anyone looking for insights in how to change, be better, and be innovative should take a look at this book. And, this is not just for artists; every business person should be doubly encouraged to read it. This speaks to the kind of innovation any organization, company, or individual needs to succeed in the constantly evolving world.

[foof2you · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Feck Perfuction by James Victore, is an impressive motivational book, lots of pictures an easy read. I was able to get many little tidbits that I can use in my life. A lot of the material is common in this type of book but this presented in a different way.

I received this book as part of The Library Thing Early Reviewers

[dcavin-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Feck Purfuction
A book everyone should read. Get out of your comfort zone. Do it like you’ve never done it. Cross your eyes and dot your tees. This book came at a great time for me. Knocking 50 years old and trying to shake old habits. I started a 100 drawings in 100 days. This has helped because I started running out of ideas. This has shown me what I have missed.
I will definitely keep this book handy and accessible. I needed this. Beats a shot of whiskey -- well close. Great book, will share copies with me friends.

[carolinemcarrico · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

James Victore's book is an accessible and visually compelling; however, the author's confrontational style will not appeal to all readers.

[jillrhudy · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Inspiration meets design in this wild little book. James Victore covers every excuse I have for not taking crazy risks. Some of it is a little over the top (kill your phone) but I get the message! As a diehard perfectionist and pleaser, I need a corrective kick in the pants once in a while and this book really delivers. I'm sure other authors have encouraged me to embrace my unique weirdness and told me that I have only me to bring to the world, after all (I don't have anybody else), but Victore really got the message across. The art is disruptive. The advice is disruptive. I enjoyed the disruption, stuffed the chapters full of Post-Its with arrows saying "THIS" and "WOW" and plan to keep this book forever as a life coaching ready reference.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

[mitchellray · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

With his text and graphics, James Victore provides straightforward, irreverent, wise counsel on how to live a creative, fulfilling life. Seventy-seven short lessons are divided into six chapters covering the subjects of voice, fear, start, action, habits, and purpose. This is a book to be read by anyone who wants to experience life to its fullest and make a difference in the world.