Beware: you can't avoid problems

24 March 2015 Unknown 0 Comments

I read a great article about art the other day. It's called Why Giving Up Won't Solve Your Problems. Please go read it.

Now that you've read it, I can probably say nothing and you'd have a happier day already, but let's connect what he said to how we think about things here.

Sometimes we think we are bad at our craft and because of that we always run into problems. Well, that's just not true. Ed Catmull tells in Creativity, Inc. that when he talks about how there weren't any problems during Toy Story 3, that team usually gets offended. They think they must not have pushed themselves artistically enough if there weren't any problems.

Don't try to avoid the problems. Don't be afraid of them. Don't feel like a failure because of them. As Chris Oatley puts it: 

Problems actually mean you are being creative. You are pushing yourself and the craft. You are being amazing.

So don't give up!