Practice is all we can control .We become what we do.
Seth Godin
Creativity is always a difficult choice. It’s rarely for the faint-hearted. Thinking about who it is for and for what’s it for will help you make your creative decisions. It’s okay to create for your own self. In fact, your creations should first help you. Only then can it be of service to someone else.
Favorite nuggets from The Practice
- Hope is not the same as reassurance.
- You can learn to learn. Reading takes effort.
- Trust the process
- . Practice demands we make an impact on someone not everyone.
- Desirable difficulty is important if you want to upskill.
- Sign up for days of feeling of incompetence .Unlimited reason to hide our work and only one reason to share it full stop to be of service.
- People rarely criticize the critic.
- Become the best in the world of being you. . Curiosity generosity and connection.
- Art helps us make something better.
Growth connection, service ,daring- Creativity
Bhagvad Geeta
Whether you are an artist, writer,maker entrepreneur, you need to do the work.There’s no short cut.There is no fairy dust.Its just the magic inside you to create. Creating anything is Art and Art has an amazing power of making things better .
When I started writing in 2014 I had no clue. When I started podcasting in 2018 I had little clue and when I started on my watercolor journey in 2020 it was a free fall.
l chanced upon the book The Practice by Seth Godin. Seth in his customary style says if you can’t ship it’s no use to anybody. Basically in the world now going digital, if you are not putting it out there nobody knows that you are doing anything. Even fewer people will care.
Every day when I write or share my painting online, I am not even sure whether it’s worth sharing. I know it’s my journey and I want to encourage that one person who is still afraid. Sometimes a community can come forward to teach each other, even when each of them are still learning.
That’s what the Blogchatter community does. That’s what friends like Tangi do for its creators. If not for supported platforms like these, many content creators like me would feel overwhelmed. Sometimes teaching to learn, is the best way to learn.
Who is this book for?
- Anyone on a creative journey.
- If you are afraid of standing up and share your work.
- If you are waiting to publish that one wonderful book.
- If you have always wanted to share your paintings on Instagram on Pinterest on YouTube or even sell them on at Etsy, this is a book you must read.
- The pandemic project gives me a chance to play with watercolors I haven’t looked back after that to learn .
Create if you ever doubt. Fear no more.Start today and you will be ahead of all those who never started.
There is a reason the medical profession it’s called the practice because no one actually knows everything. The time we are interns with practice what we preach what we read what we learn what we see our teachers do. With painting and drawing it’s a constant practice to different kinds but you do get better very constantly keep on practicing life, after all, is never perfect it’s a work in progress that’s why we need to be our very best alarm at least try to be.
Become the best in the world at being you.
Seth Godin
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