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Perhaps it would be difficult to understand what she is talking about if you had never experienced similar personal dilemmas...
by kringz 17y ago
Perhaps it would be difficult to understand what she is talking about if you had never experienced similar personal dilemmas...
- lux 17y agoIndeed, the struggle with the process of creation, the fear of rejection, misunderstanding, failure, is at the core of many artists. I look at entrepreneurialism and hacking as forms of art too, so the topic is very on point here in my view. But back to that vulnerability. As an artist, you can connect to that immediately. It's moving to hear another artist talk that openly and honestly about something so central to their existence. One of my favourite things she said was about being a mule. We're all mules. And we can be proud of the effort, of continuing to show up, regardless of the result. I'm a fairly hard-line atheist (I am open to actual proof ;), but there is something mystical about the eureka moment during the creative process. Sometimes it is a wave that comes at you when you hope to be ready, and you just try to catch it while you can. And several times I remember feeling the way she described the dancer becoming something more. I've seen that dancer before. Anyone who's created art for long enough has touched that, but as a logical person I'm almost ashamed to get that out-there describing my personal experiences. Hat's off to her for having the guts to do so and do so that openly.
- diN0bot 17y agoer... i think i understand what she is talking about and have had similar personal experiences...interesting choice there of questioning that. no, i was speaking to the disjoint between the content of the blog article (effortless requires extreme diligence) and the example (eat, pray, love author's ted talk as "best ted talk ever").