This is so applicable to my life right now. I'm trying to improve two aspects of my art and know it will be weeks and months of mistakes until I refine my process. I look for small successes and use the scientific process to track my failures. I try to view my failures as successes, they eliminate avenues and sometimes reveal special surprises.
'Here’s what I know: if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally underestimate how effort needs to be poured into talent in order to develop it. So much of getting good at anything is just pure labor: figuring out how to try and then offering up the hours. If you’re doing it wrong you can do it a thousand times and not produce any particularly interesting results. So you have to make sure you’re trying the right way.’ —Ava, https://ava.substack.com/p/effort
This is so applicable to my life right now. I'm trying to improve two aspects of my art and know it will be weeks and months of mistakes until I refine my process. I look for small successes and use the scientific process to track my failures. I try to view my failures as successes, they eliminate avenues and sometimes reveal special surprises.
I like this. Rob Bell talks about how everything is data and a lot of times the failure data is more useful than the success data.
On writing more: https://ava.substack.com/p/on-writing-more
'Here’s what I know: if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally underestimate how effort needs to be poured into talent in order to develop it. So much of getting good at anything is just pure labor: figuring out how to try and then offering up the hours. If you’re doing it wrong you can do it a thousand times and not produce any particularly interesting results. So you have to make sure you’re trying the right way.’ —Ava, https://ava.substack.com/p/effort
The history of that famous definition of insanity: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/