As a creative person and a teacher/guide to creative people, Tim Gunn's common sense approaches are a breath of fresh air. He's polite, considerate, no nonesense and not over-the-top emotionally driven when faced with a dilemma. Maybe its that we share so many of the same outlooks on life that I find that he inspires me to do better. The one point he raised I always thought I was alone in is his comment on having creative boundries:
"You don't flourish if you are left to do anything in any situation. I say this in art and design and it doesn't always make me incredibly popular. [...] I maintain that that having constraints is very helpful fo