This is excellent. I've seen a lot of people in that phase of giving up. I was there for at least a year until I had a break through.
Great advice for beginners
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#22There are a couple of stories that comes to mind when reading this. The first one has to do with with Picasso while the second one has to do with Golf (well professional sports). 1) The story goes that Picasso was sitting in a Paris café when an admirer approached and asked if he would do a quick sketch on a paper napkin. Picasso politely agreed, swiftly executed the work, and handed back the napkin — but not before…
Creating a great product needs time and hard work. This story beautifully illustrates that. Earlier I used to spend so much time worrying about being perfect that many times I wouldn't even start. It's only now I realize the importance of creating good work every day, even though it may not be the best one.
I guess you could say I'm one of those weird programmer/designer hybrids. One thing I find fascinating is when I get into a long programming stint just how difficult it is to get back into the design mindset. I usually have to spend a few days producing, what I consider complete garbage, to get back into the groove. After that the creativity starts to flow naturally again.
It is almost seems like a muscle that atrophies without use. I wonder if that is why you see benefit in creating works each day? And why programmers are stereotypically said to be not be able to design, even though I see a lot of overlap.
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#23>we get into it because we have good taste This is highly disputable. However, this is good advice to those of us (us!) who have it.
We get into it because we [think we] have good taste. Sometimes "making it" does just take working long and hard enough to get to the point that our output matches our taste--and then everyone else can see how great it is too, and wants to buy it. Success! Less talked-about is that sometimes its turns out that we actually didn't have such great taste after all. Our output matches our taste but it still doesn't sell i…
I would even say that the vast majority of both producers and consumers of creative content have bad taste.
Re: Great advice for beginners
#24There are a couple of stories that comes to mind when reading this. The first one has to do with with Picasso while the second one has to do with Golf (well professional sports). 1) The story goes that Picasso was sitting in a Paris café when an admirer approached and asked if he would do a quick sketch on a paper napkin. Picasso politely agreed, swiftly executed the work, and handed back the napkin — but not before…
I find my problem relating to this is the ladder up against the wrong tree/building problem, it seems an absolute bugger to work out. The good news is, I know when I do I have the tenacity and work ethic to constantly get better