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[fablulu]

I really like this little lesson on creativity. I wish someone had told me this early on in my creative career, and I believed them, I might not have given up on my art. No, actually, I knew, but didn't have the financial wherewithal to spend the time I needed. But it's never too late, and I really want to make things to please myself, please

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[clea]

Yes. To me this is something that parents and teachers are supposed to be drumming into kids over and over again. I was raised with that myth of each child being "the sporty one" or "the artistic one" and it was based on this mythical talent that was supposed to come as highly skilled straight out of the wrapper. It wasn't until I became a gymnastics coach and I saw the difference between inborn talent and practiced skill that I realised how much of gymnastics is practice and hard work. Talent might be the difference between making it to the olympics or not but the rest is all hard work. A person with almost no talent can still make it to level 10 nationals and it will take the same amount of work (and tears). Once I saw it there I saw it in every discipline. I was furious and so ripped off. The other thing most people need is tuition. You can come a long way on your own but lessons kick the shit out of going it alone. That was another parental myth (BASTARDS!) I was supposed to be able to teach myself things or just "be talented". Or

[fablulu]

Fuck yea.
We're left to just tread water. Well, the children will be grown and on their own soon, and i'll have had my fill of this crappy job and just hanging out, so I feel like the second half of our lives can be devoted to our craft. I don't even want to make jewelry or quilts or knit nuthin anymore. What for? I think i'm going to try to take those classes on computer forensics, and get some grunt job with a bunch of fat bears and young hot shots.