“As Soon As I’ve Checked My Emails”- Why Artists Procrastinate
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“As Soon As I’ve Checked My Emails”Why Artists Procrastinate
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Let’s start with the funniest, most accurate description of procrastination ever:
(Taken from “Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack adventure”)
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Every artist in the world knows this to be true.
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We’ve all been there.Every artist in the world knows this to be true.
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We’ve all been there.
some of us quite frequently...
Every artist in the world knows this to be true.
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The big question is:
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The big question is:
Why?
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How come we find these stupid excuses not to do what we’ve chosen to do?
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After all, no one makes you become an artist.
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In fact, you’re probably doing it in spite of skeptical friends and family.
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You should love doing this thing!
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And yet, here you are looking at yet another cat video on Facebook.
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And yet, here you are looking at yet another cat video on Facebook.
But why?
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Many procrastinators think they’re just being lazy.
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But nothing can be further from the truth.
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Procrastinators are prepared to work harder than anyone.
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Procrastinators are prepared to work harder than anyone.
On just about anything they’re not
supposed to be doing.
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They will put in endless hours managing virtual cities.
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building civilizations or wiping entire squads of virtual enemies.
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They will diligently search for the funniest content on the web.
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They’ll watch bad films all the way to their disappointing ending.
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In short, procrastinators will take on anything…
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In short, procrastinators will take on anything…
As long as it’s completely unimportant.
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Procrastination is not the problem.
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Procrastination is not the problem.
Procrastination is a symptom.
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Ironically, it’s exactly because something is important to you,
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Ironically, it’s exactly because something is important to you,
That you tend to want to get away from it.
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Ironically, it’s exactly because something is important to you.
You simply care too much to take the risk of doing something wrong.
That you tend to want to get away from it.
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So you procrastinate.
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So you procrastinate.
Which is simply another name for doing something you can’t fail at.
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Procrastination is a symptom.
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Procrastination is a symptom.
Fear of failure is the problem.
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If this is true,
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If this is true,
then a good solution for procrastination
must somehow take the sting out of
failure.
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The ideal solution would make you feel unable to fail.
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Or else not mind failure so much.
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Such a solution exists.
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Such a solution exists.
It’s called having a structured creative process.
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And whether they’re aware of it or not -
All successful artists have one.
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The details vary, but it always includes procedures that turn an intimidating creative challenge into a series of trivial exercises.
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Each allowing failure without harming the work.
(indeed, some of them are even meant to fail).
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A good creative process
builds success out of failure.
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