I have no talents.
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- moniker0
Dinky?
- meffid0
Thought this was a cirquemedia thread.
- utopian0
- </END THREAD>moldero
- I forget who this is, now. Cirquemedia, or B4sh?Continuity
- b4shmekk
- loli_was
- detritus0
That's what living in a world without distractions offers.
Monotasking, for your entire life.
‘Yaaay’.
- CygnusZero40
Ive always admired really creative painters because to me it's 2 talents at work, the actual being able to paint, knowing colors, etc... but also having the mind to create works like this.
- please tell me that this link is meant to be ironicpressplay
- This guy is a world famous artist who creates work for kings and princes. Hows your resume looking?CygnusZero4
- That work takes skill and time, don't hate.bainbridge
- kitschfadein11
- formed0
I think a lot of us could be pretty good at any of those if we dedicated our life to one skill. I'd gladly do that is someone wanted to foot the bill for all the little toys I need. :-)
- mg330
Early composers are who blow my mind. No ability to record things to hear an arrangement, some of them didn't play any instruments at all from what I remember. That ability to often write notation just knowing what would work is amazing to me and always has been.
- BaskerviIle0
I have some skills.
I learned to draw and paint as a kid, spent hours and hours drawing in my own little world until my knees ached from sitting on the floor in the same position for too long. I went to school, learned more, then art school. I reckon I've put in my 10,000 hours by now:
http://www.wisdomgroup.com/blog/…I've also done the same to a slightly lesser extent with music too, both a lot of personal hours spent studying theory and practicing, extra curricular classes, summer schools etc.
I think if you want real skills you have to devote most of your life to them. I don't believe in innate talent, I think everything is learned.
If someone calls me talented, I find it almost insulting because it negates the thousands of hours I've spent practicing and learning my craft. When people say "I wish I could draw as well as you" I think, well you could/can you just need to be prepared to sacrifice other things and devote yourself to it.
Same goes for other things, eg fitness. Sure everyone wants to be super fit and be in great shape, but the hours one needs to devote to exercise, gym, sports, diet etc are a barrier for most people.Skill is really just a measure of how motivated you are to devote time to something.
The craftspeople you talk about that used to exist devoted their lives to that craft. Now we all have a more varied range of activities.
If I've become good at anything, it's because I was a borderline obsessive kid that spent a lot of time drawing and continued ever since. I've been drawing/painting seriously since I was 6, that's 25 years of work.
I think we're lucky in the creative industries since a lot of us have managed to make our passion into our job, or at least something related to our passion.
- 12xu0
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- ohhhhhsnap0
Thinking of going to school for Tech Writing, as a fall back career. Anyone know anything about this field?
I also do like houses as well (something completely different from design I guess) and have been thinking of becoming a Home Inspector (6 mos. for a license). They make bank!
If "shit hits the fan", but not in a catastrophic way, it would be nice to fall back on some writing skills. I do have a strange love for the English language and I'm slowly re-learning Spanish too.
Miss Camacho, for 3 years in H.S. made me suuuuuuper interested. It has since kinda stuck with me.
- set0
- oey0
Most of those people are not creative, they just have technical skills and reproduce Nature.
What's on being creative by reproducing something that already exists?:p