Ooops I killed the Human Rights worm instead of the Perfectionism worm. No worries though I'm never executing my master plan to oppress everyone , it needs just one more refinement
Notes: 1. 7:14 - 8:55 Kill the perfectionism worm and accept that your work will never be perfect a. You can’t move forward if you don’t put your art out there b. Deal with thoughts (worms) that are bad for the artistic process and sharing your art 2. 9:41 - 11:39 Find your minimum viable product a. Smallest possible creation that you can imagine creating b. Manage your expectations c. Find out what the minimum thing you’re willing to settle for is, and start by aiming for that d. “My minimum viable product as a ______ is ________” 3. 11:39 - 13:35 Set hard deadlines a. Based on personal and other things b. Doesn’t matter how long it is (best if less than a month), just make sure you stick to it 4. 13:35 - 17:09 Create punishments a. Create incentives for maintaining your deadlines and consequences for if you fail to meet them b. Make yourself do something you really hate to push yourself to meet deadlines 5. 17:09 - 22:30 Find a partner to hold you accountable a. You probably won’t want to hurt yourself (or at least you shouldn't), so find a way to externalize the pressure b. Ask a friend to somehow hold you accountable to your deadlines and punishments c. If you don’t have friends, maybe focus on that first d. Alternatively, tell an acquaintance or stranger about your project and offer to pay them if you don’t meet your goal 6. 22:30 - 27:44 Thanklessly hone your craft (Repeat steps 2-5) a. Keep going, regularly, indefinitely b. Some deadlines will be missed, the point of them is to train you to meet them c. You will have little to no reinforcement d. Each successive task/deadline should teach you something and make you better at what you do e. End goal: Make/do something no one else can 25:52 - 27:04 Build a social support network Find a supportive community of like-minded artists and join them Call friends weekly, at least 7. 27:44 - 29:57 Create sale infrastructure a. Ex: Etsy, Shopify, Wikifeet Premium, Patreon, “DM for feet pics”, etc. 8. 29:57 - 35:57 Tailor art for communities a. Find a medium-sized community of like-minded individuals that you can share content with (~10k is probably a good start) i. If you aim too small, not enough people will see your stuff ii. If you aim too big, others will outcompete you and you’ll get lost in the noise b. Make content aimed at that community, ex: memes, videos, photos, music, etc. c. If you need to pay for bots and ads, you’ll be less successful than if you grow a following/community “organically” d. Accept that a lot of content created for that community will be hated/rejected (at least at first) e. Get feedback and tailor it to better fit the community 9. 35:57 - 37:18 Find a small group of people who like the art without knowing you 10. 37:18 - 41:24 Make $1 a. Then make more stuff that your audience seems to like Try new things and branch out to get a better idea of what your audience likes/wants from you Leverage algorithms and try different platforms Come up with a plan, commit to it, and adapt as needed Not everything will go according to plan, but you’re the only person who can make the "right" choices Once you “make it” you will have to keep “making it” to stay where you are Artistic success will not solve any of your personal problems Hope other people find these helpful, and thank you for the insight Ggrej.
Make a 10-20 sec short film. It can be a collection of sunsets or cats you saw on the street. maybe a collection of your recent thoughts, things you scared of or something deep of that nature. Or maybe something really simple. For example 10-20 sec showing in a cinematic way the process of going to work/uni/ school or whateva
I hate, and love how he can honestly pin point all the recurring thought patterns that the target audience of this video might have, it is the precise self awareness that is to be expected from Greg. I think this is a super realistic and truthful framework to get the worm out of the ground, to set-up a structure in which you can develop and build your craft, and the most important parts to this map seem to me, overcoming resistance and having relationships that can push you extrinsically towards your goal, forcing you not to be the self serving clicker. Also, noting how this video falls very close to new year, meaning that if anybody wanted to get started on that map now, they'd have a reasonable reference. This is truly a public service, thank you in advance Greg for having very little faith in people and implementing failure as an intrinsic part of the process.
Love this and really took notes! On the subject of punishments - back in Jan I tried giving myself the punishment that, if I didn’t do my thing every day, I’d donate money to a certain evil political organization I hate. But after a week or so when I inevitably missed the deadline I found that none of my accountability buddies were willing to force me to follow through with the punishment because they ALSO hated that organization. Or they thought I was kidding, or they just forgave me right away. So I think one thing I learned is that the punishment has to be something YOU (the artist) will hate, but something your accountability partner would actually enjoy, so they are motivated to actually do it. For example giving them money, or a chore, or whatever. If it’s something nobody wants, they won’t enforce it because they also want to avoid pain. But that raises the question, if you condition somebody to associate your artistic failure with their own financial gain… is there a risk of that providing an incentive for people to sabotage you on purpose? 😅 I guess that would be pretty fucked up so maybe it’s not realistic. But what do you all think?
Thank you for posting this, you posted this a month after I decided to stop just moping in my sadness and actually decide to work on myself and become the artist I wanna be. I really appreciate your work, it means the world to me.
I'll come back to this when I want to focus on youtube videos again. Watched the whole thing, took notes (copied the timestamps but ok), this is pretty motivating Greg, thankyou :)
Jreg tips -We have a brain problem, how to deal with it is up to me 1. Kill perfection worm =don't be perfect obsessed =can't release it till its perfect(pull out as much as you can) 2. Minimal Viable Product =smallest possible creation that you imagine making =(i.e. if author, make blogpost. if musician, make 5-10s beat loop, if filmographer, make 1 scene) =my minimal viable product spoken word artist is..... 3. Set a deadline =how long(best if at most a month) =any long, as long as you commit 4. Set a punishment =discomfort=death =have a condition to fulfill, like putting it out there =i.e. donate money, random thing 5. Find an accountability partner =external pressure =find another person, look outside for help =if I don't do this deadline do buy this using my money =if no friends, find acquaintance 6. Thanklessly Hone your Craft =make deadlines, complete or miss it and keep doing it very long =repeat thanklessly even if negative reinforcement, until make something no one can do =(jreg, made spoken word poetry, became political purpose with beat on bg) =network, build call with friends(make weekly calls to make it real) 7. Set up sale infrastructure =can give you money to do a thing for em =limitless, sell editing, or dm for commission, patreon for vid making 8. Make stuff community like =memes, subreddit, discords, don't be annoying =find a community that they will like, even if they don't like it 9. Find one random person that loves your work =then find 9 more that love what u do and tells friends 10. Make 1$ =do more of it again (we need wisdom, spiritual motivation and good art, not content) (you can do it, even if it's hard and no wage)
I'm at step 6 and I have been for a while now, been really nervous and confused about trying to transition so having the step by step guide is actually extremely helpful! Thanks huge amounts!!!!
Thanks, this came at the right time for me. You show a nuanced understanding of your audience and the human condition at large. This is probably the first youtube video i've ever taken notes on... Uhhh that was too authentic, now I need to reflexively place a barrier between me and the world with irony...
Nice one Greg, you sure showed those competent audio mixers who's boss Edit: OK so it turns out there is audio but it only works on pc, not on phones Edit 2: it works now :D
As someone who’s been making music for 5 years STEP 8 IS STILL SUPER HELPFUL AAAA I FEEL LIKE IVE NEVER FULLY UNDERSTOOD ANY KIND OF EARLY MARKETING EVER
Huge fan of the demotivational motivational style. I came across this video right when I’ve been thinking of how the heck to start doing something artsy even if I can never monetize it. This map gives just enough structure and ideas to establish the discipline needed to actually develop skills and style. Thank you!
Best advice I can give is that it's completely okay if you have 15 half-finished projects that are all unrelated from each other- keep growing those seeds and one day the pieces may fall into place in a bigger way you never could have seen from the outset
Steps 0 through 5ish where solid. I stopped taking notes and forgot 6 to 9 but ill save this video to a playlist and watch it later. I just found your content and already have major respect for you as an artist. Keep it up
This is advice I wish someone told me 10 years ago. While I am happy with how far I was able to take my skill-sets (still want to get better) This "perfectionism goal" has severely isolated me. It doesn't help too though when I try to seek out art communities I feel like people are intimidated by me and dismiss me.... Which is really disheartening because when I was bad at art no one said anything either. So now I'm confident in my skill set, but without friends it's all pointless.
You mentioned misanthropy once in this video, so Could you reupload/unprivate that one presentation on misanthropy and where it comes from? It was the first vid you made that really made me love the channel when I was a tiny teen shitter, and while it won't help me achieve anything it'd be nice getting to see it at least one more time
One augmentation I'm adding to my personal map is a step 6.5 of transitioning from skill development into artistic output, this would apply for people going into a craft such as music, theatre, magic, poetry, that requires performance and not just a consumable product. A musician, for example, may have to spend a considerable amount of time developing their chops by learning fundamentals, repertoire, theory, ear training, playing with others, practicing, etc. It very well may take a year or more before one's collection of Minimum Viable Products becomes something performable or publishable, in such a case, it should be just as effective to have an MVP that shows reasonable mastery or progress of a skill or song. If you're lucky, your accountability partner may be a teacher or mentor but like Greg said, all that is bonus points; showing progress to anybody should still be somewhat effective as long as they're still able to enforce a reward or punishment on you. Once you're getting close to having enough skill to perform your art you can shift your MVP into something that is consumable and repeat. This is what I am going to be attempting over the course of 2023. If I am at all successful, and if I care to remember, I'll update you all on how this worked for me. If anybody has further suggestions on what to do in my situation, I'd love to see it.
Really good practical advice. The deadline thing i don’t think is healthy for me with the already like, im gonna wanna kill myself if I don’t make something mindset. I have a lot of internal pressure to make things, and making that sense of responsibility someone else’s problem often builds like guilt in me when I’m already beating myself up for not making something in the time that I wanted to make it. Regardless, I feel like that strategy is really good advice for times when you don’t have that fire under your ass. Love you dreg Greg
Am 29 subs only atm and I wanna be a full time musician. No more excuses for myself by next year I should be able to do music fulltime and have a "real" audience". I watched the entire video and jreg is literally vocalising all the thoughts i have about art. I already knew all these things but didn't do them. Its time to take action. I leave this comment here as accountability for myself. A reminder to take action
I hate you for this. This video gave me a deadline so impactful that there's a 0% chance I'm gonna miss it, which sucks because I wanted to do it at my own pace. Wth, Greg, you're pushing me to be my best self and it sucks.
You could probably watch interviews / podcasts featuring successfull artists you look up to (as an alternative to maps). One time I saw a clip of Donald glover and he was talking about how he stopped rapping partially because when the industry sees you as a rapper they respect you less for TV shows and other stuff. He probably talked about how he got started somewhere, I'd say he's very successful as an artist.
It's so cool to see something that described like 90% of my artistic journey for the past 4-5 years and still learn things that I could do better and rethink
Anyone got ideas for topics and creative content ? I want to make UA-cam videos with creative info and engaging style but I haven’t made any videos yet. If making UA-cam videos is too hard or not appropriate for the information, I can write blogs or articles
This was great. Honestly comforting and validating to hear this roadmap. Maybe I should start creating a roadmap instead of shooting in the dark! Thanks :)!
Thanks Greg. Somewhere in December last year I've drawn a first draft of the map without knowing you are here. Anyway, I confirm from the way, that the map is real. I believe in you too.
I honestly thought there was no sound (like haha you can't hear the advice or whatever ironic jregging he was doing) until I watched it on desktop, now that's what I call death of the author
The best part is that its actually a jreg video, it has a scipt, its edited. We will just never no anything he said (the meaning is obvious, but like still)
I don’t have the perfection worm. I have a worm that says to stop when I initially expected to be finished whether the product is viable or not. I submit my engineering labs half finished and just say “ next time I’ll give myself twice as much time”, but the TAs are only available for 2 hours a week, my meds knock me out immediately after dinner, and if I work into the next hour my anxiety makes me feel like I’m holding my breath until I stop and watch a UA-cam video.
Why is this acually helpful? I did not expect this video to inspire me to do something. I started to take drawing more seriously (by more seriously I mean started drawing reguarly and trying to get better) in 2022 and I have already made like 250 dollars with my furry commisions, its not much but I am in high school and this is my first time making money. I would really want to be full time artist but like idk
@@naterardin8053 I completely forgot about this comment lol I still draw! I do more traditional art now and I don't focus on commissions that much, I mostly focus on improving my skills. And I still use some of the advice in this video, so I guess it really helped
this is like the 2022 youtube video version of neitchze's antieducation where he opens with the story of him and his friends meeting in the woods to recite poetry
For me just posting the unfinished thing feels like a huge punishment, humiliating. Or a light version. You missed the deadline, now youll never finish this thing, without the timing its meaningless. You can basically throw it away then if youre not gonna finish it now.
This feels good to me in conjunction with some other accountability buddy punishment, cause then you still get the benefit of building a relationship with your struggling artsy friends.
i have an idea, you should do therapy like this, like the way youre telling me to accept my brain disease works 10x better and more efficient than recent psychiatrists ive been seeing, legit I got slapped with a schizophrenia diagnosis, then the next one I see is telling me that Im not. Fuck it, rather just be a schizo then deal with this shit. Love you Greg
I personally prefer the jreg method, which is when you make a series a lot of people kinda liked, and then diverge into a bunch of stuff nobody really cares about until you fade into obscurity
Punishment idea (a serious one): I cannot live without my favorite flavored water drink at the end of the night. If I miss my deadline I tell my wife not to buy it for me with the groceries. It forces me to go out and use my own money outside the grocery budget to get it. It’s small and stupid but enough friction for me to avoid.
Your video outline sounds pretty similar to making a product as a software developer or engineer. (Or maybe an entreprenuer.) At least for 1-3 and 5-8. MVP is a really great concept. Although you example of the blog post might not be the right medium if you want to be a creative writer. Short stories are hard but teach a lot to make. It's a lot easier to make 3-5 chapters and not finish something. Or maybe make a novella that is like 15-30k. (Maybe 50k?) And do nano-wri-mo or something. Or maybe just start by writing single scene fanfics.
This is anti anti Oedipus. Reverse Deleuzo-Guattarian praxis. A user Manuel is a Manuel that tells the user their function in the machine rather than how to use it.
the first part sounds like bdsm. that sounds like alot of fun to do with a whip and some loob. so if anyone needs a punishment.... go look somewhere else I am busy
Making friends with a bunch of executive dysfunctioning artists is my new get rich quick scheme.
great one Greg, you showed those aspiring artists a map
holy shit
jreg the cartographer
this is the best one, my favourite one
Ooops I killed the Human Rights worm instead of the Perfectionism worm. No worries though I'm never executing my master plan to oppress everyone , it needs just one more refinement
Good thing for all of us that you didn't kill your 'lack of prioritisation' worm first
Notes:
1. 7:14 - 8:55 Kill the perfectionism worm and accept that your work will never be perfect
a. You can’t move forward if you don’t put your art out there
b. Deal with thoughts (worms) that are bad for the artistic process and sharing your art
2. 9:41 - 11:39 Find your minimum viable product
a. Smallest possible creation that you can imagine creating
b. Manage your expectations
c. Find out what the minimum thing you’re willing to settle for is, and start by aiming for that
d. “My minimum viable product as a ______ is ________”
3. 11:39 - 13:35 Set hard deadlines
a. Based on personal and other things
b. Doesn’t matter how long it is (best if less than a month), just make sure you stick to it
4. 13:35 - 17:09 Create punishments
a. Create incentives for maintaining your deadlines and consequences for if you fail to meet them
b. Make yourself do something you really hate to push yourself to meet deadlines
5. 17:09 - 22:30 Find a partner to hold you accountable
a. You probably won’t want to hurt yourself (or at least you shouldn't), so find a way to externalize the pressure
b. Ask a friend to somehow hold you accountable to your deadlines and punishments
c. If you don’t have friends, maybe focus on that first
d. Alternatively, tell an acquaintance or stranger about your project and offer to pay them if you don’t meet your goal
6. 22:30 - 27:44 Thanklessly hone your craft (Repeat steps 2-5)
a. Keep going, regularly, indefinitely
b. Some deadlines will be missed, the point of them is to train you to meet them
c. You will have little to no reinforcement
d. Each successive task/deadline should teach you something and make you better at what you do
e. End goal: Make/do something no one else can
25:52 - 27:04 Build a social support network
Find a supportive community of like-minded artists and join them
Call friends weekly, at least
7. 27:44 - 29:57 Create sale infrastructure
a. Ex: Etsy, Shopify, Wikifeet Premium, Patreon, “DM for feet pics”, etc.
8. 29:57 - 35:57 Tailor art for communities
a. Find a medium-sized community of like-minded individuals that you can share content with (~10k is probably a good start)
i. If you aim too small, not enough people will see your stuff
ii. If you aim too big, others will outcompete you and you’ll get lost in the noise
b. Make content aimed at that community, ex: memes, videos, photos, music, etc.
c. If you need to pay for bots and ads, you’ll be less successful than if you grow a following/community “organically”
d. Accept that a lot of content created for that community will be hated/rejected (at least at first)
e. Get feedback and tailor it to better fit the community
9. 35:57 - 37:18 Find a small group of people who like the art without knowing you
10. 37:18 - 41:24 Make $1
a. Then make more stuff that your audience seems to like
Try new things and branch out to get a better idea of what your audience likes/wants from you
Leverage algorithms and try different platforms
Come up with a plan, commit to it, and adapt as needed
Not everything will go according to plan, but you’re the only person who can make the "right" choices
Once you “make it” you will have to keep “making it” to stay where you are
Artistic success will not solve any of your personal problems
Hope other people find these helpful, and thank you for the insight Ggrej.
Thanks for taking notes for the whole class.
Very useful. Thank you
you're an angel
Nice one Isaac 👍
Wait a second...
You're just telling me to record the folk punk album I've got written out on the notes app on my phone and then advertise it...
"I've accepted that creating things is a painful experience I put myself through, because not doing it is worse" - Samperson
Me: writes down "a short film" for min viable product
Greg: NO SHORT FILMS FOR THE FILMOGRAPHERS!!!!
first/last scene then
Make a 10-20 sec short film. It can be a collection of sunsets or cats you saw on the street. maybe a collection of your recent thoughts, things you scared of or something deep of that nature. Or maybe something really simple. For example 10-20 sec showing in a cinematic way the process of going to work/uni/ school or whateva
Bring back Vine. 7 seconds is plenty long enough for a setup and punchline
@@ezg5221 Have you seen Tak Tak? It's pretty much the same thing but new.
I hate, and love how he can honestly pin point all the recurring thought patterns that the target audience of this video might have, it is the precise self awareness that is to be expected from Greg.
I think this is a super realistic and truthful framework to get the worm out of the ground, to set-up a structure in which you can develop and build your craft, and the most important parts to this map seem to me, overcoming resistance and having relationships that can push you extrinsically towards your goal, forcing you not to be the self serving clicker.
Also, noting how this video falls very close to new year, meaning that if anybody wanted to get started on that map now, they'd have a reasonable reference.
This is truly a public service, thank you in advance Greg for having very little faith in people and implementing failure as an intrinsic part of the process.
Jreg: "I don't have any experience doing art locally."
Also Jreg: *Literally ran for mayor in his home city.*
One of the best pieces of performance art ever.
It’s so rare that you come across genuine human advice
Love this and really took notes! On the subject of punishments - back in Jan I tried giving myself the punishment that, if I didn’t do my thing every day, I’d donate money to a certain evil political organization I hate. But after a week or so when I inevitably missed the deadline I found that none of my accountability buddies were willing to force me to follow through with the punishment because they ALSO hated that organization. Or they thought I was kidding, or they just forgave me right away.
So I think one thing I learned is that the punishment has to be something YOU (the artist) will hate, but something your accountability partner would actually enjoy, so they are motivated to actually do it. For example giving them money, or a chore, or whatever. If it’s something nobody wants, they won’t enforce it because they also want to avoid pain.
But that raises the question, if you condition somebody to associate your artistic failure with their own financial gain… is there a risk of that providing an incentive for people to sabotage you on purpose? 😅 I guess that would be pretty fucked up so maybe it’s not realistic. But what do you all think?
mo money mo problems sucka😎
I always appreciate seeing this kind of content from artists I admire.
Thanks for the tips Greg! This was great background noise for playing cookie clicker. Going to start working on my Moderately Visible Product
only just started the video but i’m 95% sure that i’m in that 5%. i needed this. thanks.
How is it going
Clearly mastery of the audio design.
Ahah, so true, I loved when you said "kys" it reminded me the voices in my head.
Idk why but this video really appeals to me for some reason.
Thank you for posting this, you posted this a month after I decided to stop just moping in my sadness and actually decide to work on myself and become the artist I wanna be. I really appreciate your work, it means the world to me.
amazing decision, I wish you all the best!
@@projectjupiter5523 thank you!
Thanks for calling me a worm. I actually needed that.
my jreg is always right worm is telling me this another fantastic video
I believe this applies to all people, who want to forge their own path by creating something new. Thank you for making this video!
Great video Greg, the audio was a bit too loud maybe tone it down next time buddy.
Love this video! I am going to cultivate my brain disease so efficiently now! :)
honestly thank you for this video man just essentially finished a project i’d been putting off for ages lol
Very good video that gave me a very good set of notes. The process has begun and it cannot be stopped.
I like how he has a full-blown villain backstory monologue in the "Get Feedback" tangent
I'll come back to this when I want to focus on youtube videos again. Watched the whole thing, took notes (copied the timestamps but ok), this is pretty motivating Greg, thankyou :)
Jreg tips
-We have a brain problem, how to deal with it is up to me
1. Kill perfection worm
=don't be perfect obsessed
=can't release it till its perfect(pull out as much as you can)
2. Minimal Viable Product
=smallest possible creation that you imagine making
=(i.e. if author, make blogpost. if musician, make 5-10s beat loop, if filmographer, make 1 scene)
=my minimal viable product spoken word artist is.....
3. Set a deadline
=how long(best if at most a month)
=any long, as long as you commit
4. Set a punishment
=discomfort=death
=have a condition to fulfill, like putting it out there
=i.e. donate money, random thing
5. Find an accountability partner
=external pressure
=find another person, look outside for help
=if I don't do this deadline do buy this using my money
=if no friends, find acquaintance
6. Thanklessly Hone your Craft
=make deadlines, complete or miss it and keep doing it very long
=repeat thanklessly even if negative reinforcement, until make something no one can do
=(jreg, made spoken word poetry, became political purpose with beat on bg)
=network, build call with friends(make weekly calls to make it real)
7. Set up sale infrastructure
=can give you money to do a thing for em
=limitless, sell editing, or dm for commission, patreon for vid making
8. Make stuff community like
=memes, subreddit, discords, don't be annoying
=find a community that they will like, even if they don't like it
9. Find one random person that loves your work
=then find 9 more that love what u do and tells friends
10. Make 1$
=do more of it again
(we need wisdom, spiritual motivation and good art, not content)
(you can do it, even if it's hard and no wage)
I'm at step 6 and I have been for a while now, been really nervous and confused about trying to transition so having the step by step guide is actually extremely helpful! Thanks huge amounts!!!!
Thanks so much for this. I've come to some realizations about my past lately and this feels very prescient
Thanks, this came at the right time for me. You show a nuanced understanding of your audience and the human condition at large. This is probably the first youtube video i've ever taken notes on...
Uhhh that was too authentic, now I need to reflexively place a barrier between me and the world with irony...
Nice one Greg, you sure showed those competent audio mixers who's boss
Edit: OK so it turns out there is audio but it only works on pc, not on phones
Edit 2: it works now :D
Works on mobile browser, click share and paste into chrome/etc. Probably will work on the app in a few hours is my guess
What? How?
It worked on my phone
@@JJMcCullough that's because you're a wizard J.J.
lol this is my comment from a jreg video where the audio actually was messed up
As someone who’s been making music for 5 years STEP 8 IS STILL SUPER HELPFUL AAAA I FEEL LIKE IVE NEVER FULLY UNDERSTOOD ANY KIND OF EARLY MARKETING EVER
Today someone who i didn't really know listened to my art and so this video came for the perfect time for me, thanks you a lot from one worm Greg
good timing upload. not in like a "this is just what I needed!" way, just a good timing upload for me. great video
Huge fan of the demotivational motivational style.
I came across this video right when I’ve been thinking of how the heck to start doing something artsy even if I can never monetize it. This map gives just enough structure and ideas to establish the discipline needed to actually develop skills and style.
Thank you!
one of my favourite things from you yet
also this can just be called "how to make art while you have adhd guide"
Best advice I can give is that it's completely okay if you have 15 half-finished projects that are all unrelated from each other- keep growing those seeds and one day the pieces may fall into place in a bigger way you never could have seen from the outset
Much the advice is applicable to adhd anyways in everyday life
@@gatergates8813 oh really? cause I have like 30 unfinished stories
@Pizza any way you can Forrest Gump a character through like half of them?
@@gatergates8813 hum?
great one jreg, you show people like me who don't have friend who's the boss!
Perfectly timed for the insects to commit themselves to a new years resolution (they will fail it in a week)
Thanks Greg! You really gave me permission to kill off the worms inside my brain!
Steps 0 through 5ish where solid. I stopped taking notes and forgot 6 to 9 but ill save this video to a playlist and watch it later. I just found your content and already have major respect for you as an artist. Keep it up
Watched whole vid. No notes cus have cat laying on arm. Still in playlist so will watch again.
Wow this feels like friendship!!!
Finally, practical advice. I can work with this. Thank you Greg.
This is advice I wish someone told me 10 years ago. While I am happy with how far I was able to take my skill-sets (still want to get better) This "perfectionism goal" has severely isolated me. It doesn't help too though when I try to seek out art communities I feel like people are intimidated by me and dismiss me.... Which is really disheartening because when I was bad at art no one said anything either. So now I'm confident in my skill set, but without friends it's all pointless.
You mentioned misanthropy once in this video, so
Could you reupload/unprivate that one presentation on misanthropy and where it comes from? It was the first vid you made that really made me love the channel when I was a tiny teen shitter, and while it won't help me achieve anything it'd be nice getting to see it at least one more time
This is really great! It’s good to hear worm infested people unite!!!!
best vid Ive ever seen lowkey
I feel he is leading us into a dark forest of sadness and pain but it's really hard to resist taking this on.
One augmentation I'm adding to my personal map is a step 6.5 of transitioning from skill development into artistic output, this would apply for people going into a craft such as music, theatre, magic, poetry, that requires performance and not just a consumable product. A musician, for example, may have to spend a considerable amount of time developing their chops by learning fundamentals, repertoire, theory, ear training, playing with others, practicing, etc. It very well may take a year or more before one's collection of Minimum Viable Products becomes something performable or publishable, in such a case, it should be just as effective to have an MVP that shows reasonable mastery or progress of a skill or song. If you're lucky, your accountability partner may be a teacher or mentor but like Greg said, all that is bonus points; showing progress to anybody should still be somewhat effective as long as they're still able to enforce a reward or punishment on you. Once you're getting close to having enough skill to perform your art you can shift your MVP into something that is consumable and repeat. This is what I am going to be attempting over the course of 2023. If I am at all successful, and if I care to remember, I'll update you all on how this worked for me. If anybody has further suggestions on what to do in my situation, I'd love to see it.
Really good practical advice. The deadline thing i don’t think is healthy for me with the already like, im gonna wanna kill myself if I don’t make something mindset. I have a lot of internal pressure to make things, and making that sense of responsibility someone else’s problem often builds like guilt in me when I’m already beating myself up for not making something in the time that I wanted to make it. Regardless, I feel like that strategy is really good advice for times when you don’t have that fire under your ass. Love you dreg Greg
Am 29 subs only atm and I wanna be a full time musician. No more excuses for myself by next year I should be able to do music fulltime and have a "real" audience". I watched the entire video and jreg is literally vocalising all the thoughts i have about art. I already knew all these things but didn't do them. Its time to take action. I leave this comment here as accountability for myself. A reminder to take action
it’s been a year since this comment how’s it going?
I hate you for this. This video gave me a deadline so impactful that there's a 0% chance I'm gonna miss it, which sucks because I wanted to do it at my own pace. Wth, Greg, you're pushing me to be my best self and it sucks.
You could probably watch interviews / podcasts featuring successfull artists you look up to (as an alternative to maps).
One time I saw a clip of Donald glover and he was talking about how he stopped rapping partially because when the industry sees you as a rapper they respect you less for TV shows and other stuff. He probably talked about how he got started somewhere, I'd say he's very successful as an artist.
It's so cool to see something that described like 90% of my artistic journey for the past 4-5 years and still learn things that I could do better and rethink
Luckily for me, the goblin already cut my arm off so metaphorically I'm already step ahead.. right.. right..?
My favorite part is when he said "It's mapping time" and started mapping all over the making it for the artists.
This has helped me a lot, although I am not following all the steps. Thanks for making this.
Anyone got ideas for topics and creative content ? I want to make UA-cam videos with creative info and engaging style but I haven’t made any videos yet. If making UA-cam videos is too hard or not appropriate for the information, I can write blogs or articles
thank you for this video jreg, i took notes and im killing my perfection brain worms asap
This was great. Honestly comforting and validating to hear this roadmap. Maybe I should start creating a roadmap instead of shooting in the dark! Thanks :)!
commenting for algorithmic leverage. excellent regular roadmap for extraordinary results!
Thanks Greg. Somewhere in December last year I've drawn a first draft of the map without knowing you are here.
Anyway, I confirm from the way, that the map is real. I believe in you too.
You are a magnificent worm.
when it rains I usually look to the ground and see if any worms are on the ground because I don't want to step on my fellow brethren.
I honestly thought there was no sound (like haha you can't hear the advice or whatever ironic jregging he was doing) until I watched it on desktop, now that's what I call death of the author
Unironicallly very handy video. I like it. Very useful. You clearly use it but it also clearly is derived from your content though is also unique.
thanks, really
instead of posting weird videos with a scary af voice, i think i'll start doing spoken word
The best part is that its actually a jreg video, it has a scipt, its edited. We will just never no anything he said (the meaning is obvious, but like still)
invaluable thank you
Hi, greg.
I will make a MMORPG with really good graphics in the next two weeks.
If I don't finish it, I will donate 10 dollars to your patreon.
I genuinely appreciate this. Thank you
Good video! (I think you could enjoy CJ the X if you don’t know about him already! He seems like your type of content creator)
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this."
Thank you Greg
I don’t have the perfection worm. I have a worm that says to stop when I initially expected to be finished whether the product is viable or not. I submit my engineering labs half finished and just say “ next time I’ll give myself twice as much time”, but the TAs are only available for 2 hours a week, my meds knock me out immediately after dinner, and if I work into the next hour my anxiety makes me feel like I’m holding my breath until I stop and watch a UA-cam video.
I bypassed some steps I didn't need and now have a shitty vanity audio clip on soundcloud. Thanks Jreg!
Why is this acually helpful? I did not expect this video to inspire me to do something. I started to take drawing more seriously (by more seriously I mean started drawing reguarly and trying to get better) in 2022 and I have already made like 250 dollars with my furry commisions, its not much but I am in high school and this is my first time making money. I would really want to be full time artist but like idk
It's been a year. How's it going?
@@naterardin8053 I completely forgot about this comment lol
I still draw! I do more traditional art now and I don't focus on commissions that much, I mostly focus on improving my skills. And I still use some of the advice in this video, so I guess it really helped
@@j3tus15 Awesome 🙂
this is like the 2022 youtube video version of neitchze's antieducation where he opens with the story of him and his friends meeting in the woods to recite poetry
10 minutes in: I have a terminal illness and brainworms. RIP me I guess
Genuinely had to check my audio because I'm watching from mobile
For me just posting the unfinished thing feels like a huge punishment, humiliating. Or a light version. You missed the deadline, now youll never finish this thing, without the timing its meaningless. You can basically throw it away then if youre not gonna finish it now.
This feels good to me in conjunction with some other accountability buddy punishment, cause then you still get the benefit of building a relationship with your struggling artsy friends.
Dammit. Now I have to post a video of me singing to my insta within 2 days or I have to donate $500 🥵
Update: Jregg has gotten me to actually post something with this video. Thank you!!
i have an idea, you should do therapy like this, like the way youre telling me to accept my brain disease works 10x better and more efficient than recent psychiatrists ive been seeing, legit I got slapped with a schizophrenia diagnosis, then the next one I see is telling me that Im not. Fuck it, rather just be a schizo then deal with this shit. Love you Greg
This video should have gotten more views. I will personally talk to your manager
I personally prefer the jreg method, which is when you make a series a lot of people kinda liked, and then diverge into a bunch of stuff nobody really cares about until you fade into obscurity
Why be so harsh to him 😭
Booo L take
thank you greg!
47:20 me after actually taking notes the entire video:
(loved it btw!!! cool stuff. thanks for the map, sword, and shield man)
Thanks greg, ill definitely follow this
wow this was great
I actually took notes lol
I will publish a video demonstrating a shape shifting robot prototype by Monday at noon EST.
How is it going
@arandomuser3329 lol pretty rough, hit another dead end, imma try again this week though!!! How about you?
@@OwenWithAHammer I don't have the brain disease. Iam just curious
you should do a speech at rutgers
As Jennifer Aniston with a maga hat and trump shirt under the dress
@@monnicamii WHAT IS THIS MENTAL IMAGE
Punishment idea (a serious one): I cannot live without my favorite flavored water drink at the end of the night. If I miss my deadline I tell my wife not to buy it for me with the groceries. It forces me to go out and use my own money outside the grocery budget to get it. It’s small and stupid but enough friction for me to avoid.
how did you know I was playing an idle game wtf
Your video outline sounds pretty similar to making a product as a software developer or engineer.
(Or maybe an entreprenuer.)
At least for 1-3 and 5-8.
MVP is a really great concept.
Although you example of the blog post might not be the right medium if you want to be a creative writer.
Short stories are hard but teach a lot to make.
It's a lot easier to make 3-5 chapters and not finish something.
Or maybe make a novella that is like 15-30k. (Maybe 50k?)
And do nano-wri-mo or something.
Or maybe just start by writing single scene fanfics.
I liked this video it was in fact a good video
This is anti anti Oedipus. Reverse Deleuzo-Guattarian praxis. A user Manuel is a Manuel that tells the user their function in the machine rather than how to use it.
Last year I made my first 30€ off of music. This year it's on track to being 120 €. Thanks JREG!
huh this sure does hit close to home
I'm up to stage 10. Not quite sustainable yet but nearly there.
I'm just starting but I'm really proud of you
Mum how did I end up here im scare pick me up
the first part sounds like bdsm. that sounds like alot of fun to do with a whip and some loob.
so if anyone needs a punishment....
go look somewhere else I am busy
Anyone who knows how read lips, drop the secrets
His lips are magnificent and he uses them to fantastic effect with his imagery and wordsmithing.
9 months later, I've fallen off. that said, isn't there a jreg discord where we could meet other likeminded artists?