Why some drawing beginners advance faster

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Summary

TLDRVideoen undersøker hvorfor enkelte synes å lære å tegne raskere enn andre, selv når de starter samtidig og har samme ressursgrunnlag. Det argumenteres for at dette ikke skyldes et medfødt talent, men heller erfaringer og forskjeller i motivasjon. Enkelte kan ha utviklet observasjonsferdigheter gjennom interesser som ikke direkte er knyttet til tegning, som frimerkesamling eller fugletitting. Livserfaring, vaner og tidligere læringserfaringer bidrar også. Mens perfeksjonisme kan være nyttig i begynnelsen, kan det siden bli destruktivt. Viktigst av alt er å ikke la seg distrahere av andres utvikling, men fokusere på egne mål og reisen for å forbedre seg.

Takeaways

  • 🎨 Naturlig talent er ikke avgjørende for å lære å tegne.
  • 👀 Observasjonsferdigheter kan være utviklet gjennom tidligere interesser.
  • 🛠 Presisjonserfaringer, som snekring, kan hjelpe i tegning.
  • 🧠 Å lære hvordan man lærer er en verdifull ferdighet.
  • 🔄 Livserfaring gir et forskjellig utgangspunkt for hver individ.
  • 💪 Motivasjon og engasjement påvirker læringshastigheten.
  • 🚫 Unngå å sammenligne seg med andres progresjon.
  • ⏳ Perfeksjonisme kan oppmuntre i starten, men hemme i lengden.
  • 🎯 Fokusér på egne mål, ikke andres hastighet.
  • 📈 Trekke energi fra perfeksjonisme kan gi midlertidig fordel.

Timeline

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    To mennesker kan starte å lære å tegne samtidig, men en av dem kan forbedre seg raskere. Dette skyldes ofte ikke 'talent', men skyldes personlige erfaringer og livsferdigheter som kan påvirke prosessen. Tidligere erfaringer med observasjon, presisjon eller skriving kan gi en fordel. I tillegg kan motivasjonen og grunnen til at man begynner å tegne variere, noe som også påvirker fremgangen. Til slutt, perfeksjonisme kan hjelpe i starten, men kan senere bli en hindring. Poenget er å ikke sammenligne seg med andre, men fokusere på sin egen progresjon.

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Frequently Asked Question

  • Hva påvirker hvor raskt noen lærer å tegne?

    Livserfaringer, motivasjon, tidligere utviklede ferdigheter som observasjon, og hvordan man har lært å lære.

  • Hva kan være fordelaktige ferdigheter når man begynner å tegne?

    Observasjonsferdigheter fra interesser som frimerkesamling eller fugletitting, samt presisjonsferdigheter fra aktiviteter som snekring.

  • Er naturlig talent viktig for å lære å tegne?

    Nei, forfatteren mener at naturlig talent er et uheldig konsept og at erfaringer og motivasjon spiller en større rolle.

  • Hva bør man unngå når man sammenligner seg med andre som lærer å tegne?

    Unngå å sammenligne seg med andre, spesielt hvis det fører til nedslåtthet, fordi hver person starter fra et forskjellig utgangspunkt.

  • Hvordan kan motivasjon påvirke læring av tegning?

    Motivasjonen kan påvirke hvor mye tid, innsats og energi en person er villig til å investere, noe som kan føre til ulik progresjon mellom individer.

  • Kan perfeksjonisme ha en positiv effekt når man lærer å tegne?

    I begynnelsen kan perfeksjonisme hjelpe ved å presse en til en høy standard, men langsiktig kan det være destruktivt for læring.

  • Hva er et viktig budskap i videoen?

    Ikke bekymre deg for talent eller sammenligne seg med andre; fokuser på din egen utvikling.

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    why is it that two people can start to
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    learn to draw at exactly the same time
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    each with no prior
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    experience and yet one of them seemed to
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    go further much faster one of them
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    seemed to build on what they do and to
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    improve much faster even when they have
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    much the same access to resources I
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    suspect this is often put down to what I
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    increasingly see as the very unhelpful
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    concept of natural Talent well that
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    person's just more talented which is a
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    way of saying it comes easier to them
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    they're able to go faster more easily
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    because somehow it just naturally ties
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    in with them in some way that other
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    people don't have it's some sort of Head
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    Start to begin and then some sort of
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    natural Advantage as they keep going
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    part of the problem with that of course
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    is that we end up thinking am I talented
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    do I have enough Talent if I have
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    troubles with learning to draw if I
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    reach a block and I can't improve is the
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    problem simply that I don't have enough
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    talent because well what can I do about
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    that not much at all but let me give you
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    some other reasons why I think this
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    might happen and I hope that will be
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    particularly encouraging to anyone
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    firstly wanting to understand the
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    process of how we learn to draw or learn
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    to do anything more but also to anyone
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    starting to wonder whether perhaps their
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    problem is they don't have enough talent
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    and wondering therefore should they just
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    give up let's say I'm in a group of 10
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    we all start to draw at the same time
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    the only thing we have in common really
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    is that we all start to draw or all
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    start to learn to draw at the same time
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    because the truth is that none of us
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    start from the same place for a lot of
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    reasons we have different personalities
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    we have different life experiences but
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    even if we're almost the same age just
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    one or two years difference life
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    experience can make a huge difference
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    particularly at the early adult stage of
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    life and those one or two extra years
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    may have actually brought us a lot of
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    life experience that's going to be very
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    helpful in learning to draw let me spell
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    out a couple of them to give you an idea
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    of what I'm talking about and the most
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    obvious one is some of us have learned
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    how to observe more carefully than
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    others for all sorts of reasons it may
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    be we had a particular interest say in
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    well when I was a boy I love stamps and
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    I collected stamps and I used to look
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    very intently at the stamps trying to
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    see differences trying to see the
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    patterns the designs how they were made
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    especially in the older line drawn
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    non-photographic ways of producing
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    stamps or possibly I've had an interest
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    in say bird watching where I've actually
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    tried to find birds and when I found
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    them I look at them very intently for
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    the short period they stay still so that
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    I can see gather all the information in
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    my mind enough so I can then find them
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    in a book now none of these things are
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    anything to do with drawing but I can
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    actually learn how to observe very
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    quickly to see key things or to remember
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    them for afterwards by doing things such
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    as this and of course if you've watched
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    any of my videos you know that careful
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    observation is an enormous skill and
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    learning to see the things that we need
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    to see to draw rather than the things we
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    need to see just for General Life
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    getting by is not always as easy as it
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    sounds but for some people they've done
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    other things that have happen to push
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    that skill development further so when
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    they look at something at the same time
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    as someone who hasn't got that
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    experience it looks like they can draw
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    better more easily it's just that
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    they've already developed skills skills
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    they didn't realize they were going to
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    need maybe we've learned other skills
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    say carpentry where we learn to have to
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    be very precise with the way we look and
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    see and measure and perhaps estimate so
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    that when we say make a cut it's in the
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    right place and we don't waste the wood
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    again it's got nothing to do with
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    drawing but it may well put us ahead of
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    someone who hasn't happened to do any of
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    these things in their life experience so
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    far sometimes it can be more
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    straightforward things such as I've
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    simply used a pen a lot maybe I was very
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    studious at school and I did subjects
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    where we had to write a lot of essay so
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    I became very comfortable with holding a
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    pen and moving a pen with lovely fluid
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    movements my arm is nice and loose and
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    relaxed when I write because I couldn't
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    write well without that and those hand
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    eye coordination arm hand wrist skills
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    all happen to be very useful if I start
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    to learn to draw particularly if I was
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    used to writing in the same medium which
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    I'm going to draw with this is an
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    advantage I'm sure I had when I started
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    to draw and that's it I'd learned to
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    learn now sometimes we learn to learn
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    because we learn how to learn because
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    learning is a skill and because I'm a
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    trained High School teacher not art but
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    a trained High School teacher I learned
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    to learn as part of our teacher
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    education but when I began to draw and
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    realized I had to learn this new skill I
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    understood a lot of practices that would
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    be helpful a lot of strategies that
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    would be helpful or not helpful in the
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    learning to learn process even though I
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    didn't have a teacher I was self-taught
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    I knew how to function as a teacher and
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    that helped me know what to do how to do
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    it when to do it to maximum
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    Advantage it didn't make it easier in
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    itself for me to learn to draw but it
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    cut out a lot of time wandering in the
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    wilderness doing things that weren't
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    going to be as helpful as the things I
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    chose to do it wasn't Talent it was life
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    experience and learning before I started
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    if we go back to our 10 people who are
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    all starting to learn at the same time
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    if we were to ask each of them why are
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    you learning to draw why do you want to
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    we are going to get 10 very different
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    reasons and each of them is likely to
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    have a different level of motivation and
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    commitment there's a commitment enough
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    and motivation enough for all of us to
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    start but when the going gets tough when
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    we have to make choices with what we do
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    with our time and just how much
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    importance and effort and concentration
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    I'm prepared to spend on this is going
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    to change if I'm doing it just to have
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    fun if I'm doing it because I've been
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    really inspired by other drawings and
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    it's made me want to try it it's going
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    to be very different if I think it's
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    going to be a side hustle if I'm going
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    to be able to sell my drawings at
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    markets and so forth and it's very
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    different again if I dream of being a
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    full-time artist who lives off their art
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    for my career and as Life Starts to
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    throw up other things in our path as we
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    move along for some of us our
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    motivational level will mean we pull
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    back or slow down maybe stop all
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    together relative to others and it's not
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    that anyone should or shouldn't do that
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    it's simply understanding why there is a
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    difference I would say the reason some
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    people improve is that they push through
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    the difficulties that other people might
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    let them slow down a bit because of
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    because of the other things in life that
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    they value and the other time
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    commitments they have it's not natural
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    Talent it's just other stuff happening
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    and we all respond to that differently
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    I've left this one till last I wasn't
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    sure whether to include it or not
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    because in my mind I don't want to be
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    unhelpful but I think when we just start
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    to learn to draw sometimes being
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    perfectionistic can work to our
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    advantage in that it really pushes us to
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    a high standard now let me say in the
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    longer term I think perfectionism is
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    highly destructive to learning to draw
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    because in the end it gives us all sorts
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    of focuses that really aren't helpful
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    for learning process or for General
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    morale during the process but at the
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    very start when it's not so obvious to
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    us or to others again it may just push
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    us at may be a motivating thing this
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    fear or drive that we have to get it
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    perfect can allow us to dredge up energy
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    and effort that perhaps other people not
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    quite so driven don't have and that can
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    make it look as though we're getting
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    further more
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    easily but not at all we all simply have
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    different personalities and life
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    experiences that mold how we think and
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    how we push ourselves on I think the
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    bottom line I think I think the takehome
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    of all of this is when we learn to draw
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    don't compare ourselves with other
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    people don't worry about who is or isn't
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    talented not a helpful concept if it
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    means anything at all at all I'm the
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    only person I need to be concerned about
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    and I should really avoid comparing my
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    drawings with others particularly other
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    beginners if I find that generally a
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    discouraging thing to do because we
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    might start at the same time but we all
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    start from different different places
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    but what I really hope is that my videos
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    help you get to the place that you're
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    wanting to get to as quickly and as
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    effectively as possible good day I'm
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    Steven Travis so after all that it's
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    probably time for us all to stop
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    watching videos and do a drawing I'll
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    see you next time bye
Tags
  • naturlig talent
  • tegning
  • livserfaring
  • observasjon
  • motivasjon
  • læring
  • perfeksjonisme