"Talent is a pursued interest. Anything you are willing to practice, you are able to do." Guess who said that? The great "Happy little trees" painter, Bob Ross.
@@mjopam5481 It's just a play on words. It suggests that it takes too much effort trying to explain to people that talent is a real thing. If you wanted to know my reasoning instead, it's quite simple. We're not born equal. Everyone is born with different attributes, that's the whole point of genetic diversity. Some people will do better at fighting off certain illnesses. Some people are better equipped to accomplish certain tasks. There's a reason not everybody is equally as inspired to be a rapper. People have different levels of talent and motivation, and it manifests in how they carry out their lives. We just don't have the same physical attributes or brain chemistry. And that doesn't mean we can't improve at something if we dedicate our time and effort to it. But it's not up to you how far you will go, and how quickly you will improve (which is the most important thing). It also doesn't mean you're born with the knowledge of all of mathematics, or the ability to play a piano. It just means certain parts of your brain function better than most people. Perhaps you have better motor controls, perhaps you have better memory and recognition skills, perhaps you just simply process things faster in your head, or maybe you're naturally more focused and disciplined than others. It could be that your brain has better neuroplasticity and you're able to learn things with significantly less practice. It could be that every time you do a certain thing, your brain is releasing all the good chemicals and it makes you want to do it even more. Perhaps, every time you're done with something, you feel a great sense of accomplish rather mere relief from having that task completed. It's just not as simple as, just work hard, get hard, and get good. That's why it's hard work explaining to people that talent is real, because they don't think like that. They just believe in some delusion that we are all equal and born with equal capabilities. We're not equal. Case closed. Also, it doesn't mean that you wouldn't have to put in effort to go a long ways. Just because you have a better car doesn't mean you don't need to drive to get somewhere. Ig that's a decent enough example.
Art is a great escape for hobby jumping, simply because you don't have to quit jumping. As an artist, you can always keep jumping inside the box, change the medium, change the technique, change the subject, change the story you're telling. There is nothing inherently wrong with jumping, or "not getting good at anything". Being an artist is just one way of many to come in terms with the fact that jumping is ok, that change, new things are what people love, and that our society's hyperfocus on productive "single skill mastery" roboticism is a myth that is causing a lot of people harm through a feeling of inferiority.
This is exactly the conversation I'm having with myself. I love that this guy is dialing in and becoming better at one thing that he loves and sharing his knowledge with us, but it doesn't work for me.
@@HankTVsux Well it does, you just didnt find your shit and picked your sacrifices yet, didnt realize that this is what life looks like and its actually fun to learn, the beauty in it etc. What you're conquering is yourself and what you are mastering also is yourself, and a whole field out of that fun through simplicity and embracing what is seemingly only discomfort at first to something that is a rather fascinating and intriguing journey in front of you.
If you made a playlist on your YT of your fav art vids that would be an awesome resource for us. I just started an art one on my page. You might find some new stuff you like. The Art Tourist and Art Chad are my fav Art pages rn highly rec
I think having a healthy and solid understanding of what purpose a hobby serves is key. I have been an avid hobby jumper my entire life. But I think only in the last year or two when I began to realize that different hobbies served different purposes in my life and that I didn't need to be a "success" in all of them. Having realistic expectations alongside knowing the purpose of a hobby means you are less likely to quite when it gets too hard-or when you hit a wall with progressing any further. Learning to play piano a few years back, I went in knowing my physical limitations and told myself it was purely for the enjoyment of being able to play just well enough to have fun doing it. I haven't given up that hobby and it brings so much joy to my life. Writing fulfills my emotional needs, it is therapeutic for me. And art has been what I have decided to focus on getting really good at knowing full well it could take me years and I may still never have a career in it, it is still something I feel passionate about. And I have learned my lesson on leaving social media out of the equation when learning a new art form. Social media kinda sullied photography for me years back and I won't make that mistake again. I don't share my art online. I won't let my need for validation ruin something I feel so strongly about.
Honestly surprising that I haven't seen more people talk about self-love, ego, shame as things you have to learn to manage in relation to hobbies and getting good, so really glad to see it here. (I've been thinking about this a lot recently as I'm at a crossroads in my own art journey of deciding to get serious or not.)
Damn!! I’ve run from my negative thoughts all my life. Got to the messy middle in my art, freaked out, said I was shit and left. But I am being drawn back to the art over and over again. I regret my years of running. Those could have been years of practicing, of being kinder to myself and being honest with myself. Thank you for sharing g this insight. I love that you show your flaws in your videos; you show you are just like us and need to keep learning, understanding and feeling all the positive as well as the negative. I do freak out when I don’t feel in control, and have an unrealistic perfectionism. This is what I need to break.
@@theoriginalmonstermaker nah....from past issues it doesn't motivate me. I need to remember how I feel when in the zone; when I get so deep into the art I forget where I am and what time it is. I need to look past the messy shit and just keep plugging away. I then need to ignore the hate and focus on what I have achieved and the little steps in becoming a better artist.
Man, recommendations are getting really shit nowadays, I found your channel through instagram. I wish youtube would recommend more creators like you, your style really reminds me of old youtube, very real
the reason i keep jumping hobbies and interests is that i genuinely fall out of love with them. i just could not care less. i used to want to be one of the best in that field but that amount of passion only lasted for a week or two and then it completely fell off a cliff. this has happened more times than i can count. nowadays when i catch an interest all i can really think of is that ill lose it eventually and how i dont want that to happen. at least that interest loss doesnt last forever though and it can come back into cycle and i can like it again. but if i dont i cant force myself to even associate myself with it because i just dont care.
The problem with "love at first sight" is that by any meaningful definition of "love", it's impossible. To truly love someone, you must love THEM in their entirety, and you don't KNOW them "at first sight". It's the difference btwn "loving someone" FOR YOU, and real love, which is loving them FOR THEM. (though *lust* at first sight is CERTAINLY a possibility, and generally what ppl mean ... after they retroactively apply the term to a now successful relationship, since everyone conveniently forgets about all the ppl they "loved" if it never amounts to anything) .... but everything else you said was interesting too 👍
You picked art the same way Gordon Ramsay picked cooking. He couldn't play football anymore, but he still wanted to be the best at something, and he just picked cooking.
Seriously, you don't need thirty hours to finish a painting. You need to learn to prioritize the decisions that really count when it comes to giving structure to an emotion. You also need to learn when to leave the painting alone. The timed time constraint, while it may seem like a terrible idea, tests your ability to limit and prioritize the decisions you can make.
It really messed with my head when my brother told me years ago that there's no point in pursuing something if you won't try to be the best at it. Not that there's no point if you aren't the best, but if you don't try to be. I think he meant the same thing as you and Jake here when you talk about wanting to be great. I don't think it helped me at all, and as I've grown and found my own happiness, striving for greatness hasn't played much of a part in my life. Balancing self-care with occasionally pushing myself out of my comfort zone and being bad at something so I can start to get better at it is what's really rewarding. Instead of focusing on greatness, which may or may not ever come to me, I focus on the process. When the learning itself is rewarding you can begin to make good progress. I don't know about anyone else, but for myself, if I can be well and happy while I improve at what I set my mind to, that's what's great.
I know that I have to be bad at art to become good at art but I'm too lazy to improve So I just sit on my bed, draw something, think "nah it's bad", deleting art and cry I just can't make myself learn, it's hard, it's ugly, it's painful, but it's important. I have to learn I don't know what to do
It's interesting that you say you don't know what to do when you actually laid out the problem quite clearly. And in a comment on a video all about what to do no less! Working on a skill is working on yourself, and that's a never-ending job. No single part of your life happens in a vacuum-it's all intertwined. You'll work on yourself concurrently with actually practicing your art, and you'll get better at all of it gradually, with each piece contributing to the others. It looks just like what Jake says. Take care of your mental health (you'll know what that means for you far better than I do). Practice mindfulness and being gentle with yourself. Cultivate routines conducive to learning. Learn how to learn-it is a real skill that you can improve! These things are hard and have no clear finish line, but the more you work on them the more they'll pay off in all areas of your life. As for the suggestion of "brute force"... well, all I can say is that there is one person in this thread who clearly didn't take much away from watching the video 😂 Sure, absolutely cultivate self-discipline, but that's not going to happen by uh, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, or something? It'll happen by figuring out how to care as deeply for yourself as you care about your craft.
@@Stilipluth brute forcing is something thatll work out for anything but art Art is strongly built around your emotions, so if you're forcing your art, you're forcing your emotions Whenever I make art out of force i never end up enjoying it, even if it's somewhat decent. Instead what I like to do is let myself loose. Give myself freedom to refuse doing art when I don't feel like it, then before ik it I'm back at drawing!
"Talent is a pursued interest. Anything you are willing to practice, you are able to do." Guess who said that? The great "Happy little trees" painter, Bob Ross.
it takes hard work to explain to people that talent is real
@@notrhythm I'm late to this but can you elaborate?
@@mjopam5481 It's just a play on words. It suggests that it takes too much effort trying to explain to people that talent is a real thing.
If you wanted to know my reasoning instead, it's quite simple. We're not born equal. Everyone is born with different attributes, that's the whole point of genetic diversity. Some people will do better at fighting off certain illnesses. Some people are better equipped to accomplish certain tasks. There's a reason not everybody is equally as inspired to be a rapper. People have different levels of talent and motivation, and it manifests in how they carry out their lives. We just don't have the same physical attributes or brain chemistry.
And that doesn't mean we can't improve at something if we dedicate our time and effort to it. But it's not up to you how far you will go, and how quickly you will improve (which is the most important thing). It also doesn't mean you're born with the knowledge of all of mathematics, or the ability to play a piano. It just means certain parts of your brain function better than most people. Perhaps you have better motor controls, perhaps you have better memory and recognition skills, perhaps you just simply process things faster in your head, or maybe you're naturally more focused and disciplined than others.
It could be that your brain has better neuroplasticity and you're able to learn things with significantly less practice. It could be that every time you do a certain thing, your brain is releasing all the good chemicals and it makes you want to do it even more. Perhaps, every time you're done with something, you feel a great sense of accomplish rather mere relief from having that task completed. It's just not as simple as, just work hard, get hard, and get good. That's why it's hard work explaining to people that talent is real, because they don't think like that. They just believe in some delusion that we are all equal and born with equal capabilities. We're not equal. Case closed.
Also, it doesn't mean that you wouldn't have to put in effort to go a long ways. Just because you have a better car doesn't mean you don't need to drive to get somewhere. Ig that's a decent enough example.
Art is a great escape for hobby jumping, simply because you don't have to quit jumping. As an artist, you can always keep jumping inside the box, change the medium, change the technique, change the subject, change the story you're telling.
There is nothing inherently wrong with jumping, or "not getting good at anything". Being an artist is just one way of many to come in terms with the fact that jumping is ok, that change, new things are what people love, and that our society's hyperfocus on productive "single skill mastery" roboticism is a myth that is causing a lot of people harm through a feeling of inferiority.
This is exactly the conversation I'm having with myself. I love that this guy is dialing in and becoming better at one thing that he loves and sharing his knowledge with us, but it doesn't work for me.
There is art in everything and anybody
@@HankTVsux Well it does, you just didnt find your shit and picked your sacrifices yet, didnt realize that this is what life looks like and its actually fun to learn, the beauty in it etc. What you're conquering is yourself and what you are mastering also is yourself, and a whole field out of that fun through simplicity and embracing what is seemingly only discomfort at first to something that is a rather fascinating and intriguing journey in front of you.
This felt like a free therapy session. thx.
I love how the lighting changes whenever the mood or tone shifts, it itches my brain the right way
Brilliant! It takes some people their entire lives to appreciate what you summed up in eight minutes.
Dude, I don't speak English very well, but you talk about art so cool that I understand everything on intuition.
Very wise for someone who appears so young. Thank you for your words.
If you made a playlist on your YT of your fav art vids that would be an awesome resource for us.
I just started an art one on my page. You might find some new stuff you like. The Art Tourist and Art Chad are my fav Art pages rn highly rec
You’ve actually help me so much and I wanna support you and your channel 😁
really appreciate man! I'm working on so much more great stuff! only getting started
@@JakeDontDraw I can wait to see more 😊
I think having a healthy and solid understanding of what purpose a hobby serves is key. I have been an avid hobby jumper my entire life. But I think only in the last year or two when I began to realize that different hobbies served different purposes in my life and that I didn't need to be a "success" in all of them. Having realistic expectations alongside knowing the purpose of a hobby means you are less likely to quite when it gets too hard-or when you hit a wall with progressing any further. Learning to play piano a few years back, I went in knowing my physical limitations and told myself it was purely for the enjoyment of being able to play just well enough to have fun doing it. I haven't given up that hobby and it brings so much joy to my life. Writing fulfills my emotional needs, it is therapeutic for me. And art has been what I have decided to focus on getting really good at knowing full well it could take me years and I may still never have a career in it, it is still something I feel passionate about. And I have learned my lesson on leaving social media out of the equation when learning a new art form. Social media kinda sullied photography for me years back and I won't make that mistake again. I don't share my art online. I won't let my need for validation ruin something I feel so strongly about.
Honestly surprising that I haven't seen more people talk about self-love, ego, shame as things you have to learn to manage in relation to hobbies and getting good, so really glad to see it here. (I've been thinking about this a lot recently as I'm at a crossroads in my own art journey of deciding to get serious or not.)
Damn!! I’ve run from my negative thoughts all my life. Got to the messy middle in my art, freaked out, said I was shit and left. But I am being drawn back to the art over and over again. I regret my years of running. Those could have been years of practicing, of being kinder to myself and being honest with myself. Thank you for sharing g this insight. I love that you show your flaws in your videos; you show you are just like us and need to keep learning, understanding and feeling all the positive as well as the negative. I do freak out when I don’t feel in control, and have an unrealistic perfectionism. This is what I need to break.
All successful ppl hate themselves... it's what motivates improvement.
@@theoriginalmonstermaker nah....from past issues it doesn't motivate me. I need to remember how I feel when in the zone; when I get so deep into the art I forget where I am and what time it is. I need to look past the messy shit and just keep plugging away. I then need to ignore the hate and focus on what I have achieved and the little steps in becoming a better artist.
Wise and helpful insights, Monika 👍💚
This is 8 minutes of pure wisdom
Why this channel is so underrated
You’re very wise man, your words apply to so many situations throughout life
brilliant video on habits! real eye opener for some people.
Every single statement in this video was a previous thought of mine. This resonates so deeply with me. thank you for making this essay.
this channel is truly a treasure! thanks always ❤
bro ur such a painfully underated artist i hope you blow up soon! i just subscribed :]
Man, recommendations are getting really shit nowadays, I found your channel through instagram. I wish youtube would recommend more creators like you, your style really reminds me of old youtube, very real
Hobby jumping is also extremely valuable, though.. so many skills can carry over and make it easier and easier to learn new things.
very useful, very inspirational, very helpful. thanks for your sharing.
Yo this is such an important thing to hear that it really help me configure my mind thanks jake
Thanks for this. Your tiktok has been a valuable resource for me and this video is no different.
0:12 that’s actually my first video
This is wise : " You would be a sicho if you never thought negatively about you "
the reason i keep jumping hobbies and interests is that i genuinely fall out of love with them. i just could not care less. i used to want to be one of the best in that field but that amount of passion only lasted for a week or two and then it completely fell off a cliff. this has happened more times than i can count. nowadays when i catch an interest all i can really think of is that ill lose it eventually and how i dont want that to happen. at least that interest loss doesnt last forever though and it can come back into cycle and i can like it again. but if i dont i cant force myself to even associate myself with it because i just dont care.
love you man, great message
The problem with "love at first sight" is that by any meaningful definition of "love", it's impossible.
To truly love someone, you must love THEM in their entirety, and you don't KNOW them "at first sight".
It's the difference btwn "loving someone" FOR YOU, and real love, which is loving them FOR THEM.
(though *lust* at first sight is CERTAINLY a possibility, and generally what ppl mean ... after they retroactively apply the term to a now successful relationship, since everyone conveniently forgets about all the ppl they "loved" if it never amounts to anything)
.... but everything else you said was interesting too 👍
I needed this
realest artist ever
Incredible video my friend
Amazing video!!!
True wisdom man
very smart
I wish you would post your tiktok videos here too :(
You picked art the same way Gordon Ramsay picked cooking. He couldn't play football anymore, but he still wanted to be the best at something, and he just picked cooking.
Seriously, you don't need thirty hours to finish a painting. You need to learn to prioritize the decisions that really count when it comes to giving structure to an emotion. You also need to learn when to leave the painting alone. The timed time constraint, while it may seem like a terrible idea, tests your ability to limit and prioritize the decisions you can make.
Why did you decide you need to become great at something? I still can't reconcile if that's important or not
It really messed with my head when my brother told me years ago that there's no point in pursuing something if you won't try to be the best at it. Not that there's no point if you aren't the best, but if you don't try to be. I think he meant the same thing as you and Jake here when you talk about wanting to be great.
I don't think it helped me at all, and as I've grown and found my own happiness, striving for greatness hasn't played much of a part in my life. Balancing self-care with occasionally pushing myself out of my comfort zone and being bad at something so I can start to get better at it is what's really rewarding. Instead of focusing on greatness, which may or may not ever come to me, I focus on the process. When the learning itself is rewarding you can begin to make good progress.
I don't know about anyone else, but for myself, if I can be well and happy while I improve at what I set my mind to, that's what's great.
I know that I have to be bad at art to become good at art but I'm too lazy to improve
So I just sit on my bed, draw something, think "nah it's bad", deleting art and cry
I just can't make myself learn, it's hard, it's ugly, it's painful, but it's important. I have to learn
I don't know what to do
You just have to do it by brute force. Discipline is also a skill.
It's interesting that you say you don't know what to do when you actually laid out the problem quite clearly. And in a comment on a video all about what to do no less!
Working on a skill is working on yourself, and that's a never-ending job. No single part of your life happens in a vacuum-it's all intertwined. You'll work on yourself concurrently with actually practicing your art, and you'll get better at all of it gradually, with each piece contributing to the others.
It looks just like what Jake says. Take care of your mental health (you'll know what that means for you far better than I do). Practice mindfulness and being gentle with yourself. Cultivate routines conducive to learning. Learn how to learn-it is a real skill that you can improve! These things are hard and have no clear finish line, but the more you work on them the more they'll pay off in all areas of your life.
As for the suggestion of "brute force"... well, all I can say is that there is one person in this thread who clearly didn't take much away from watching the video 😂 Sure, absolutely cultivate self-discipline, but that's not going to happen by uh, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, or something? It'll happen by figuring out how to care as deeply for yourself as you care about your craft.
@@morejolli I think brute forcing things is a really good advice
@@Stilipluth brute forcing is something thatll work out for anything but art
Art is strongly built around your emotions, so if you're forcing your art, you're forcing your emotions
Whenever I make art out of force i never end up enjoying it, even if it's somewhat decent.
Instead what I like to do is let myself loose. Give myself freedom to refuse doing art when I don't feel like it, then before ik it I'm back at drawing!
Underrated video, #Wisdom
Who made the art on the thumbnail picture?
Yo how old are you ?
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