Low-key brain is fried so I didn’t watch the video and looked it up instead: ”Only procrastinate on what you would be okay being left undone if you were to die tomorrow” - Picasso Feel bad so I’m liking ur video 😭
I think the main different between me and Picasso is that hes procrastinating making beautiful art that he can sell for millions. I’m procrastinating doing laundry and paying my bills. I do agree there’s valuable advice here but by farrr the biggest contributing factor is wealth and quality of life. I wonder if Picasso did his own laundry and paid his own bills.
This is a really good point and a clear demonstration of how the advice in the video is basically limited to mid-to-long-term projects, not chores. Motivation for getting chores done probably requires a different kind of mental adjustment.
Ah yes, refer to an artist's expression during their depressive phase as "productivity". Only those artists who can use art as a medium for expression can do this "channeling adversity into creativity" thing. For most people, work is a 9-5. Even for most artists these days, work is making assets for a studio or company. Making work that is NOT personal expression. This whole mindset of pushing through and ignoring self-care is harmful for most normal people, and even more so for artists sometimes. If an artist is depressed and buys into this stupid myth that all their sadness must be turned into product, it just hurts them deeper. Source: I'm one of those many artists.
I see your point, thanks for sharing. Productivity should not be prioritized over healing and mental health. Personally, I’ve found the creative process to be therapeutic when faced with periods of challenging emotions. So in that sense I think maintaining the creative flow then can be beneficial. Beautiful ideas can sometimes be found in the shadows. What has helped you on your journey?
@@insightsamuel To "what has helped you in your journey?", I will say "Know yourself". It's a cliche, I know. But it's the most important insight you can have. Knowing your own patterns and your own tempo. Knowing when you need to work a bit more and when to seriously take a break. And being honest about it. Not _brutally_ honest or _compassionately_ honest. Just truly honest. If you're an adult with half a brain, you'll know when you're trying to kid yourself into laziness.
So many people need an ass kicking at some point in their lives, watch some productivity guru who delivers said ass kicking... and start to think that's the solution to everything. Others need some compassionate self care, watch some aesthetic youtuber who's into an extremely forgiving lifestyle... and start to think that's the solution to everything. The single most valuable thing you can learn is to know yourself and know what you need at what time. And you no longer need anyone else to tell you. People will give advice for what got _them_ out of _their_ misery, not what will get _you_ out of _your_ misery. I think the reason I commented is because "finding beautiful ideas in the shadows" is one of the easiest holes to fall down into if you're depressed as hell. Because it sounds so goddamn romantic. Someone who's mentally in a healthy place can find fantastic growth and life lessons from adversity. But someone whose adversity is so bad that their mental state itself is crippled? There is NO point going deeper into that dark alley looking for those lessons.
Low-key brain is fried so I didn’t watch the video and looked it up instead: ”Only procrastinate on what you would be okay being left undone if you were to die tomorrow” - Picasso
Feel bad so I’m liking ur video 😭
I’ll watch this whenever I can get to it (lol)
My next video: how to stop procrastinating on videos about procrastination 👀
Lol!
Sounds good, will try.👍
great video man, keep it up!
Thanks Tyler!
I think the main different between me and Picasso is that hes procrastinating making beautiful art that he can sell for millions. I’m procrastinating doing laundry and paying my bills. I do agree there’s valuable advice here but by farrr the biggest contributing factor is wealth and quality of life. I wonder if Picasso did his own laundry and paid his own bills.
This is a really good point and a clear demonstration of how the advice in the video is basically limited to mid-to-long-term projects, not chores. Motivation for getting chores done probably requires a different kind of mental adjustment.
i clicked on this by accident because I thought it was procrastination advice from Pablo Escobar lmao
Thanks for the video idea ;)
the tip had nothing to do with picasso.
Inspired by Picasso :)
Pomodoro, yeah?
Ah yes, refer to an artist's expression during their depressive phase as "productivity". Only those artists who can use art as a medium for expression can do this "channeling adversity into creativity" thing. For most people, work is a 9-5. Even for most artists these days, work is making assets for a studio or company. Making work that is NOT personal expression.
This whole mindset of pushing through and ignoring self-care is harmful for most normal people, and even more so for artists sometimes. If an artist is depressed and buys into this stupid myth that all their sadness must be turned into product, it just hurts them deeper. Source: I'm one of those many artists.
I see your point, thanks for sharing. Productivity should not be prioritized over healing and mental health. Personally, I’ve found the creative process to be therapeutic when faced with periods of challenging emotions. So in that sense I think maintaining the creative flow then can be beneficial. Beautiful ideas can sometimes be found in the shadows.
What has helped you on your journey?
@@insightsamuel To "what has helped you in your journey?", I will say "Know yourself".
It's a cliche, I know. But it's the most important insight you can have. Knowing your own patterns and your own tempo. Knowing when you need to work a bit more and when to seriously take a break. And being honest about it. Not _brutally_ honest or _compassionately_ honest. Just truly honest. If you're an adult with half a brain, you'll know when you're trying to kid yourself into laziness.
So many people need an ass kicking at some point in their lives, watch some productivity guru who delivers said ass kicking... and start to think that's the solution to everything. Others need some compassionate self care, watch some aesthetic youtuber who's into an extremely forgiving lifestyle... and start to think that's the solution to everything. The single most valuable thing you can learn is to know yourself and know what you need at what time. And you no longer need anyone else to tell you. People will give advice for what got _them_ out of _their_ misery, not what will get _you_ out of _your_ misery.
I think the reason I commented is because "finding beautiful ideas in the shadows" is one of the easiest holes to fall down into if you're depressed as hell. Because it sounds so goddamn romantic. Someone who's mentally in a healthy place can find fantastic growth and life lessons from adversity. But someone whose adversity is so bad that their mental state itself is crippled? There is NO point going deeper into that dark alley looking for those lessons.