Look at Skeleton City on YouTube. This is a husband and wife channel about their weight loss journey. I have lost weight rather easily using the method. It’s basically high carb, low fat. Personally, i avoid medications because they can have SERIOUS LIFE-THREATENING SIDE-EFFECTS that are extremely downplayed by the people (big pharma and the medical community are SALESPEOPLE) who make MONEY off them. Please don’t forget, these two groups created the opioid epidemic because they KNOWINGLY prescribed highly addictive substances for profit over the care of their patients. There definitely are good people in medicine, however even some of them are too ingrained to realize the harm they’re creating by believing in big pharma. 💖
I used Clockify to track my time (they have a web browser option and an app for macOS and ios). The free version does everything I need it to. You can create projects and add clients and it’s so easy! When it comes time to invoicing I just go to the “projects” view and it adds up all the time spent on what.
In my heas Jamie's roller derby skills are inatte (can't spell born with it) he is adamant its the years and years of practice and learning he had done. I think it's likely both he had a natural ability for it, and he has honned his craft with huge amount of work. I suspect in part that assumption comes from the certain knowledge it is something I could never achieve, (with my hypermobilty , depth perception issues, dyslexia/dyslexia whichever effects ballance, my anxiety and my peaceful non violence, roller derby could never be me) I know your question was aimed at creative rather than sporting skill but it unlocked this rant from me . Still LOVING SOFA Snips
Oh, that’s interesting. Yes, there are things that are physically out of reach for some people, for various reasons. I am with him, that his skills have come from the huge amount of practice, but also absolutely concur that you (and others) have blocks that practice would not be able to surpass.
I think, also, there are mental blocks and the opposite of blocks (pushes? openings? sparks?). So many people say hey just can’t draw for example, but is more that they don’t want to enough. (And again there will be people who physically can’t, of course). And that’s absolutely fine. We can’t and shouldn’t all do everything. The world would be a very different place if individuals didn’t have particular passions that pushed them to improve their skills. And it’s also, I think, absolutely OK to have no specific passions , but to just enjoy trying a bit of this and a bit that until you want to try something else.
My. Brain is fascinated by this. I absolutely disbelieve people who say they can't draw even a stck man , and assume they just have not tried. But I also realise I will never be as tallented as you or other artists even if I put in as much hours or effort as you do. I also see a lot of things as beyond me I wonder if that's liked with knowledge if my suspected ADHD not being able to stick to boring routines and so knowing i could not manage enough time practicing 🤔
I think you absolutely could get as good as and better than me. In fact you already are in some ways, because you work with different media than I do and I would need a tonne more practise to be able to excel and them.
It’s a question of whether it would be a focus, and why. For me, I think the focus has always had to be about it being work. I don’t think I would have gone as far if it was just for me and for creativity. Everything I have stuck with and learned more and practised consistently has been to be good at or to pivot in my career. In the same way you excelled in your university level course for work, when you had thought all your life you weren’t suited to academic and higher-level study, if you found a strong reason to do it you would do it.
But it’s also absolute fine to just do what you do and get from it what you do. Not just fine, but important. I am honestly quite envious of having a creative practice that is purely for oneself. Even my Morning Ink feels like it’s not that, because it absolutely feeds into and from my illustration and design work. Having something that is the antithesis of what you do for work and that helps you switch off and calm your brain is so brilliant.
I frequently question whether I wouldn’t be happier just having art as a creative practice and not something I am making a living from.
Look at Skeleton City on YouTube. This is a husband and wife channel about their weight loss journey. I have lost weight rather easily using the method. It’s basically high carb, low fat. Personally, i avoid medications because they can have SERIOUS LIFE-THREATENING SIDE-EFFECTS that are extremely downplayed by the people (big pharma and the medical community are SALESPEOPLE) who make MONEY off them. Please don’t forget, these two groups created the opioid epidemic because they KNOWINGLY prescribed highly addictive substances for profit over the care of their patients. There definitely are good people in medicine, however even some of them are too ingrained to realize the harm they’re creating by believing in big pharma. 💖
I used Clockify to track my time (they have a web browser option and an app for macOS and ios). The free version does everything I need it to. You can create projects and add clients and it’s so easy! When it comes time to invoicing I just go to the “projects” view and it adds up all the time spent on what.
In my heas Jamie's roller derby skills are inatte (can't spell born with it) he is adamant its the years and years of practice and learning he had done. I think it's likely both he had a natural ability for it, and he has honned his craft with huge amount of work. I suspect in part that assumption comes from the certain knowledge it is something I could never achieve, (with my hypermobilty , depth perception issues, dyslexia/dyslexia whichever effects ballance, my anxiety and my peaceful non violence, roller derby could never be me) I know your question was aimed at creative rather than sporting skill but it unlocked this rant from me . Still LOVING SOFA Snips
Oh, that’s interesting. Yes, there are things that are physically out of reach for some people, for various reasons. I am with him, that his skills have come from the huge amount of practice, but also absolutely concur that you (and others) have blocks that practice would not be able to surpass.
I think, also, there are mental blocks and the opposite of blocks (pushes? openings? sparks?). So many people say hey just can’t draw for example, but is more that they don’t want to enough. (And again there will be people who physically can’t, of course). And that’s absolutely fine. We can’t and shouldn’t all do everything. The world would be a very different place if individuals didn’t have particular passions that pushed them to improve their skills. And it’s also, I think, absolutely OK to have no specific passions , but to just enjoy trying a bit of this and a bit that until you want to try something else.
My. Brain is fascinated by this. I absolutely disbelieve people who say they can't draw even a stck man , and assume they just have not tried. But I also realise I will never be as tallented as you or other artists even if I put in as much hours or effort as you do. I also see a lot of things as beyond me I wonder if that's liked with knowledge if my suspected ADHD not being able to stick to boring routines and so knowing i could not manage enough time practicing 🤔
I think you absolutely could get as good as and better than me. In fact you already are in some ways, because you work with different media than I do and I would need a tonne more practise to be able to excel and them.
It’s a question of whether it would be a focus, and why. For me, I think the focus has always had to be about it being work. I don’t think I would have gone as far if it was just for me and for creativity. Everything I have stuck with and learned more and practised consistently has been to be good at or to pivot in my career. In the same way you excelled in your university level course for work, when you had thought all your life you weren’t suited to academic and higher-level study, if you found a strong reason to do it you would do it.
But it’s also absolute fine to just do what you do and get from it what you do. Not just fine, but important. I am honestly quite envious of having a creative practice that is purely for oneself. Even my Morning Ink feels like it’s not that, because it absolutely feeds into and from my illustration and design work. Having something that is the antithesis of what you do for work and that helps you switch off and calm your brain is so brilliant.
I frequently question whether I wouldn’t be happier just having art as a creative practice and not something I am making a living from.