I'm glad I came across this video because I've been really struggling lately. I'm a 3D artist and I have ADHD and particularly suffer from executive dysfunction, which most people don't even really understand. But it's exactly what you're talking about here, the pressure of the blank page, the overwhelming nature of starting a project or working on something where you aren't even sure how to approach the act of creation. Everything you say here are things I've thought but it's easy to be completely demotivated especially when other people don't even understand what you are struggling with. So it's really helpful for me to just listen to someone else go through the entire thought process of what's even happening here. Appreciate it!
Thanks for the fascinating new perspective on procrastinating! I like the idea of seeing it in a more positive light and delving into why it feels so hard to start at that moment, rather than seeing it as some dark force to constantly fight and suppress.
24:41 sounded awesome. "[To this procrastinator,]] success means you scraped it across the line." 29:57 sounded awesome too. I love my memories of my sketchbooks. 32:14 Yea that totally worked for me. Just sit down and do something. It was so hard to get started with my current game project. I told myself I would sit down and do 2 things I *know* I could do. Now it is very easy and I am doing much much more. 40:57 Really awesome. Hayoa Miyazaki says "Working hard, it's just something you do. If you don't, nothing meaningful gets done. Thinking about that, some people can't sleep at night. That's a matter of course. At times like that, can you forgive yourself? Those who don't, don't do very good work." It's like by being present at the sketchbook, you are turning yourself into a person who does art. 46:49 Sounds awesome. "I'm here anyway for half an hour" it becomes so easy to then try to do my best. Right now I'm highly motivated because I have an explicit goal. "Release an alpha for the game within a month." And I think I can actually make a good game in that time period; it's not a sacrifice. 58:42 Ooh! Similarly if we allow ourselves to look at our phone, then the exciting part of art is getting bored so we can look at our phone! So it need not be an option perhaps. It seems to me that in hundreds of years regarding our impact on art history, very little about the suffering we endured matters. The people who did really well got to work one way or another. Thanks for the podcast!
I'm glad I came across this video because I've been really struggling lately. I'm a 3D artist and I have ADHD and particularly suffer from executive dysfunction, which most people don't even really understand. But it's exactly what you're talking about here, the pressure of the blank page, the overwhelming nature of starting a project or working on something where you aren't even sure how to approach the act of creation. Everything you say here are things I've thought but it's easy to be completely demotivated especially when other people don't even understand what you are struggling with. So it's really helpful for me to just listen to someone else go through the entire thought process of what's even happening here. Appreciate it!
Thanks for the fascinating new perspective on procrastinating! I like the idea of seeing it in a more positive light and delving into why it feels so hard to start at that moment, rather than seeing it as some dark force to constantly fight and suppress.
Drawing while listening your video, great tips.. ty !
This man just keeps giving and I appreciate his wisdom and hard work he puts into his lessons!
24:41 sounded awesome. "[To this procrastinator,]] success means you scraped it across the line."
29:57 sounded awesome too. I love my memories of my sketchbooks.
32:14 Yea that totally worked for me. Just sit down and do something. It was so hard to get started with my current game project. I told myself I would sit down and do 2 things I *know* I could do. Now it is very easy and I am doing much much more.
40:57 Really awesome. Hayoa Miyazaki says "Working hard, it's just something you do. If you don't, nothing meaningful gets done. Thinking about that, some people can't sleep at night. That's a matter of course. At times like that, can you forgive yourself? Those who don't, don't do very good work."
It's like by being present at the sketchbook, you are turning yourself into a person who does art.
46:49 Sounds awesome. "I'm here anyway for half an hour" it becomes so easy to then try to do my best.
Right now I'm highly motivated because I have an explicit goal. "Release an alpha for the game within a month." And I think I can actually make a good game in that time period; it's not a sacrifice.
58:42 Ooh! Similarly if we allow ourselves to look at our phone, then the exciting part of art is getting bored so we can look at our phone! So it need not be an option perhaps.
It seems to me that in hundreds of years regarding our impact on art history, very little about the suffering we endured matters. The people who did really well got to work one way or another.
Thanks for the podcast!