Take (any) plunge earlier. Learn about compounding effects. Learn to do hard things. Sleep enough, rest when you need to (still a work-in-progress on that account). Take care of your body. Choose friends carefully, as you will eventually gravitate towards their average.
From personal experience 1. Follow your true passion and don’t listen to your parents 2. Don’t go to college, it’s an incredible waste of time and money. You will be saddled with debt, severely limiting your freedom 3. Hang out with people who are doing the things you want to do 4. Use meditation and mindfulness to manage anxiety, not substances 5. Fear-driven decision making is a dead end street. 6. Yin and Yang drives everything in life. All wins or successes in life come with equal parts challenges and problems. You can’t beat this so just be mindful of it and understand this is the way
Someone said once: Embrace the future and evolving technology, always say initially yes to collaboration and offers but stay cautious. Means: listen first, what people saying and offering before blocking it, without knowing what it is about. You can always still cancel it later, when you thought about it. I think this a really good advice for a basic attitude especially if you want to grow in general.
Underrated channel. Valuable advice for someone trying to make a career in any creative medium. After trying to self-start after about 2 years, I'd say I regret a lack of focus and specialization. In addition to the stuff in this video and the last one. But lack of focus has left me with very little to show for what I've accomplished and learned. I've learned a lot and accomplished little. Probably just accomplished discouraging myself and putting the cart ahead of the horse mostly. I've tried indy game dev (I have a programming background but didn't consider the need for artistic skills and compulsion loop design skills). I've tried digital 2D and 3D art. Sound design and music production (mostly just ambient evolving loops made in Bitwig since I don't know music theory and can't play an instrument). And writing batshit ramblings on a blog which I suddenly lost interest in. Writing is about all I can do with confidence, so maybe I should switch subjects and write something useful. I've gone back to 3D art in Blender lately. I need that for gamedev and could make animations to go with the ambient music. Maybe combine the 3D animations and sound design stuff. Maybe make a dumb casual game out of all of it (really, I'm not even interested in gaming anymore so I can't even relate to the audience). To answer the pinned comment question: severe lack of focus and specialization. Lack of social media experience (I never used it effectively in my personal life). Overthinking to the point of disempowerment. Not giving myself opportunity for organic growth. No peer group I can feel part of for honest feedback. Observing those that have spent a decade plus developing their career and upset with myself for not evolving like they have. Thinking nothing is ever good enough to publish. Not really advice for my 18 year old self, since I'm 40 now. So perhaps, then, the ultimate advice for my 18 year old self would be to not waste the entire life in a bottle of booze working in a dead end computer career and nursing a failed marriage. Thanks for the videos. It's surely good advice for anyone striving to be creative.
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Thank you for your thoughtful response. I love intermittently getting back into Blender but I forget and hit the learning curve every time
@ That's a bit encouraging... A professional music producer I look up to has dabbled in Blender. Honestly, I could never get into it much until recently. They just released 4.0 and the famous donut tutorial series has been updated for the new version. Recently was the first time I finished that tutorial and actually become comfortable with the software.
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Crikey! I didn't know about the donut tutorial. I'm going to do it now :)
Do you have ADHD by chance? We tend to be "people pleasers" not wanting to let people down. We're also often creative types >_> RE: the cynics ("realists") - It's often a sign of depression, especially in men iirc. I think every music producer should look in the mirror every morning and say "I'm a successful music producer." That sort of thing helps a lot, as cheesy as it sounds. It's a mental hack. Thanks for sharing!
What tips would YOU give your 18 year old self?
Take (any) plunge earlier. Learn about compounding effects. Learn to do hard things. Sleep enough, rest when you need to (still a work-in-progress on that account). Take care of your body. Choose friends carefully, as you will eventually gravitate towards their average.
From personal experience
1. Follow your true passion and don’t listen to your parents
2. Don’t go to college, it’s an incredible waste of time and money. You will be saddled with debt, severely limiting your freedom
3. Hang out with people who are doing the things you want to do
4. Use meditation and mindfulness to manage anxiety, not substances
5. Fear-driven decision making is a dead end street.
6. Yin and Yang drives everything in life. All wins or successes in life come with equal parts challenges and problems. You can’t beat this so just be mindful of it and understand this is the way
Someone said once: Embrace the future and evolving technology, always say initially yes to collaboration and offers but stay cautious. Means: listen first, what people saying and offering before blocking it, without knowing what it is about. You can always still cancel it later, when you thought about it.
I think this a really good advice for a basic attitude especially if you want to grow in general.
Underrated channel. Valuable advice for someone trying to make a career in any creative medium.
After trying to self-start after about 2 years, I'd say I regret a lack of focus and specialization. In addition to the stuff in this video and the last one. But lack of focus has left me with very little to show for what I've accomplished and learned. I've learned a lot and accomplished little. Probably just accomplished discouraging myself and putting the cart ahead of the horse mostly.
I've tried indy game dev (I have a programming background but didn't consider the need for artistic skills and compulsion loop design skills). I've tried digital 2D and 3D art. Sound design and music production (mostly just ambient evolving loops made in Bitwig since I don't know music theory and can't play an instrument). And writing batshit ramblings on a blog which I suddenly lost interest in. Writing is about all I can do with confidence, so maybe I should switch subjects and write something useful.
I've gone back to 3D art in Blender lately. I need that for gamedev and could make animations to go with the ambient music. Maybe combine the 3D animations and sound design stuff. Maybe make a dumb casual game out of all of it (really, I'm not even interested in gaming anymore so I can't even relate to the audience).
To answer the pinned comment question: severe lack of focus and specialization. Lack of social media experience (I never used it effectively in my personal life). Overthinking to the point of disempowerment. Not giving myself opportunity for organic growth. No peer group I can feel part of for honest feedback. Observing those that have spent a decade plus developing their career and upset with myself for not evolving like they have. Thinking nothing is ever good enough to publish.
Not really advice for my 18 year old self, since I'm 40 now. So perhaps, then, the ultimate advice for my 18 year old self would be to not waste the entire life in a bottle of booze working in a dead end computer career and nursing a failed marriage.
Thanks for the videos. It's surely good advice for anyone striving to be creative.
Thank you for your thoughtful response. I love intermittently getting back into Blender but I forget and hit the learning curve every time
@ That's a bit encouraging... A professional music producer I look up to has dabbled in Blender. Honestly, I could never get into it much until recently. They just released 4.0 and the famous donut tutorial series has been updated for the new version. Recently was the first time I finished that tutorial and actually become comfortable with the software.
Crikey! I didn't know about the donut tutorial. I'm going to do it now :)
Grounded, wise and practical. Thank you for the video TÂCHES!
Thanks for watching!
Great content! Really reasonable and simple rules that are applicable to everyone. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)
Interested in the course but there is no link in the description I can find?
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Do you have ADHD by chance? We tend to be "people pleasers" not wanting to let people down. We're also often creative types >_>
RE: the cynics ("realists") - It's often a sign of depression, especially in men iirc.
I think every music producer should look in the mirror every morning and say "I'm a successful music producer." That sort of thing helps a lot, as cheesy as it sounds. It's a mental hack.
Thanks for sharing!
haha i felt the same thing about adhd hearing this