why you will fail. (motivation)
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Cutting but true. Ill just leave this here.
http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html
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I tell you why. MONEY and TIME
While that's very true there are more reasons. But you will find the people who do succeed don't let that fear cripple them. They work through it. Nothing worth doing will ever be easy and you may very well fail. But I'll taking trying and failing every time, over giving up.
Each time you fail you will slowly but surely increase in your skill and integrity in whatever you're fixated on.
..except calculus. Nobody likes calculus.
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I doubt we'd be so obsessed about having a great career if it wasn't a requirement for our validation.
Fear is the most powerful of all emotions in my opinion and it has the most inhibiting effect on humans. Many people throughout history who have achieved greatness have always been looked upon with awe but they where not fearless people they simply chose not to let fear distract or consume them.
those talks seem to suggest that everyone can be a navi-general if he tries hard enough and that is what he truly wants to be. but an army only needs one generall and a lot of soldiers.
just as society needs a lot of mc donalds employees and definetly no more psychology students.
He basically just repeated himself the whole way through, with no real point to make or experience to share. "You will fail" sounds exactly like "You are a special snowflake", with the only difference being that the audience is in on the joke, ha ha ha.
Meh ! I'd rather listen to some good old Hitchens and Louis CK
cause if you are likely to not get there, you might just save the money and time you will waste by trying and spend it on something usefull, like improving your personal life.
I hate to see how some people like to proclaim themselves as the owners of the truth and wisdom. Why you will fail... shhhh go home, go home...
This man does not say anything new but i'm sure he earns a lot of $$ with silly people with no brains (no offense).
I think the fear and worry of time and money creates much more of an obstacle than real time and real money ever could. Sure, nobody will pay you to do what you wanna do, but that's not a great excuse to tell yourself you can't do it. I think a successful person sees that a lot better than one who fails.
I'm more fan of these kind of video;s
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Yep.
The question then becomes, what are the steroids for art?
Practice & caffeine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA
Well I was placing the emphasis on the obstacle of time and money in and of itself. I for one would be a happier person if activities and responsibilities took no time away from any others, as I would also be if I was free from the needs of money to survive.
In relation to the video I think my point works best for when he talked about using your children as an excuse. While he's right to say we should just use them as an excuse, I think it's folly to discount the serious amount of time and money a family may be. I know some polycounters will disagree but if your career needs you to be that fucking passionate and that fucking hard-working then of course you can't just drop your responsibilities. So people are afraid, because they're multifaceted, they can't just swap one love for another and they can't take that chance that failure will mean failing your children as well.
Mountains of LSD with a sprinkling of Adderall, so it seems.
Why No One Really Wants Creativity (Barry M. Staw)
Also, game dev. steroids :icon60: :
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I have a fucking awesome career, and I had a lot of fear getting there so I dont subscribe to that idea.
As far as TED talks go, this one isn't particularly great. I kept waiting for the guy to get to an interesting or profound point but he just kept dancing around anything that could have made any kind of an impact.
You could pretty much get that advice by asking any older person, about living with regrets.
That Bob Ross remix was great.
He was on TV a lot in our house when I was growing up my mom would record and watch him, when I was doing homework. I don't remember him being that syrupy-sweet but I guess that comes out when you distill him down to a remix.
I saw a show about Transcraniel Magnetic Stimulation - they zapped a part of a students brain and they suddenly drew a whole magnitude better
hmm This is fairly interesting. Even the mayoclinic had a writeup about it, although their research and process were geared more towards treating depression.