I can truly connect with this. I've never believed in myself and the best thing I've done is to start ignoring that negative inner voice and starting to move. One step at a time, but we have to keep stepping❣
Yes! I always got scared, panic attack when I made an important decision, like apply for a job, and finally, give in to that, believe that my body is trying to tell me something. While it took me 3 years to get a job now, and a decent one, I don't know if it was a right thing to do, but I do believe that all those fear kind of lead me to where I am now, and I'm both happy and not satisfy with how I deal with that
When things get too stressful just remember that If you just did the same things without all the fears, you’d have the same outcome. Fear is like fire. It can be very good when it’s in a controlled amount
Ah i always play schoolism or bobby's videos while i work. love the mindset and the message. im latinoamerican and an inmigrant still in latinoamerica, currently working full time as a web developer, its been hard to find time to draw, sometimes theres the fear that even if i put effort it wont be enough to make a career out of art, and i think thats my biggest hurdle. the fear of losing my job and not being able to help my family. many people say and i agree thats hard to do art in pair with a job, its putting extra hours with a fried brain, and at the same time its what makes everything so important, and so worth it. Also something that works for me always its the joy i feel when i learn, when im able to pan out what was made to reach an effect, how to imitate it, how to translate it, how to observe better, how to unwrap the way light works on an object, its addictive the same way levelling up on a game haha. as they say one can only play their own hand of cards, but you are still the player. the hand of cards might not be the best, but oh im stubborn enough to draw the cards myself i guess Thanks for everything Chiu. i will save a bit and get a subscription maybe for my next birthday
It seems like your goal is not actually "to sharpen your pencil at Dreamworks" but you wanted to become a "successful artist". We often see "success" as "working at a big company" or "working for someone famous". But then, we realize that we just want to be happy, we just want fulfillment. At the end of the day, maybe you didn't get a job at Dreamworks, but you reached your goal as a successful artist. Also, nothing in this world is guaranteed. We have a goal, we work hard, day and night, Monday to Sunday, yet there's still a chance we don't succeed. Sometimes it feels like our goal is unattainable, but we have to see inwards, what is it that we truly want? Identify what our goal is, if our method doesn't work, then we have to learn another route to reach it, instead of immediately changing our goal.
its so true, because there will always be doubt and fear. only thing that matters is taking action and sticking to it long enough without quitting at the slightest hiccup, as I have done my whole life. Im actually in a similar position now where I have no choice but to do things I avoided. the biggest struggle will be to not listen to my perfectionist fears that prevent me from moving forward, the voices masquerading as logic.
Thank you!!!! thank you!! This video make me want me to share something about me: I worked on advertising agency for 8ish years as graphic designer, but I've always draw, and I've always think "I cannot live just drawing or painting", "that's not for me", "I need a "normal job", "I love drawing but for me it's impossible become an artist full time", etc...... then get fired. I freaked out, because I was paying very expensive english classes (I'm from Latinoamérica.. and maybe you can understand here it's a little bit harder become a full time artist, but not impossible), and started to freelance on the same: graphic design, saved some money and think Oh wow I can become a freelance designer and also have some time to paint and do my thing.. I need a laptop for that, worked a lot and save money, get the laptop, 2 or 3 months later get hired (no need the laptop for now haha) and 1 year later get fired again and I've just see: This is my opportunity to became a full time artist, it's now! I can do it. At the same time there's a world pandemic and some friends graphic designers get fired and I see was a difficult time to look for work, so.. the best I could do right now is try to make my dream come true, Again, work a lot but this time on my art. Also, I have the tools for work from any place in the world. It's better than I imagined. Sometimes is a little bit stressful or difficult, but it's the most beautiful path and I want to walk more on it, I hope it never ends 🥺
You're on the right track. The greatest way to succeed as an artist or creative person in general is by not having a "normal job" getting in the way. A day job is the true killer of creativity, passion, and soul. It's simply not for the creatives. I have seen too many dreams die just because they fell into a trap by thinking that getting a day job might help them. They earned enough money to survive and buy art tools, only to end up abandoning their dreams because they're too busy and physically, mentally and emotionally drained after work to actually pursue what they always wanted.
@@Kalitayy YES! Totally agree. I remember felt drained and I did a lot of things to keep creating but for me was hard, really hard I don't know the solution or had a nice advice about that. I remember I had the weekend free, but sometimes "there's work to do" and I had to go there, no extras, no payment, all day, sometimes I had to stay after hour and "my free time" of the day was vanished. It was very abusive :/
@@lorraine.rabbitExactly. Having a day job basically means you have to waste 8-10 hours worth of time and energy doing nothing that will help you reach your goals. You do the exact same mind-numbing thing everyday. Years feel like hours and hours feel like nanoseconds. The next thing you know you're 60, retired, and have achieved nothing. To me, the greatest failure a person can make in their life is getting a day job. That's one way to strip off your humanity and soul. One way to lose your life before you die.
Our generation was told many things that put so much pressure on achieving "great" things. "You can be anything", "If you can dream it you can do it" which is great, but a double-edged sword. It feels like we're a failure if we can't reach our goals, and sometimes, even if we do all the right things, circumstances are out of our control. It is tough to deal with the realization that most of the things are out of our control. However, you're right that most of the time, goals and dreams mean nothing without actually moving forward, ignoring fear a little bit, and just starting to actually bet on ourselves and putting in the effort. Thanks for your very insightful videos, and have a wonderful 2024!
Do you resonate with Bobby's message of 'steps > goals'? If so, I can't recommend this book enough -> "How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams I'd heard the idea of "goals = bad, systems = good" before, but a particular chapter in the book really drove it home for me. Hope it helps you too. Thanks for the amazing vid Bobby!
For me one of the basic steps is to work real hard, i don't mean like exhausting yourself, but always everyday try to give my best and always try to push a little more on what i do, never back down, always try to have better ideas and keep evolving
I had to think on this for a day. There is no one great who didn't have a goal or some self belief that it could happen. None of the artists or musicians or actors or atheletes that we all know and admire who didn't follow a vision. They all took different steps. Now, careerist people can absolutely take steps- take the right classes, make a resume, show experience- and get to a place. In both cases of a Visionary and a Careerist, they followed some intuitive choices and some logic but the Visionary leans towards intuition personality type and the Careerist towards logic and business. You can see it in the kind of work they make. Sometimes I'm more of a fine artist who hustles and sometimes an educator who either does online on my own or in a school environment- in education, you absolutely meet talented artists as teachers who didn't envision a career for what they make but what they knew. They inspire the kids to get jobs for other people. But the Visionary doesn't even "follow the right steps," they go in the metaphorical brush with a machete and then you get Guillermo Del Toro, Miyazaki, Bjork, Neil Gaiman, Radiohead, John Lennon etc. all these intuitive visionaries.
You wouldn't have gotten to where you are today without the original goal that was parallel and in the same direction as where you are today. Like if your original goal was to be a bodybuilder, it wouldn't have led to such a prolific art career. Your goal was in art and animation and you are very successful in art and animation. I think you exceeded your goal, which is a success. I think you were too specific with your original goal. If you changed "sharpening pencils at Dreamworks" to a more general getting a start at an animation studio, then you definitely reached your goal. Also not finding the job immediately has helped me personally grow as a person and handle situations I may not have encountered if I went straight to a dream job. My art and knowledge base has grown and changed as well. It sounds like your art definitely grew while trying to get your start in animation. You filled 3 books, so maybe you needed time for that. Still hoping for an entry level position at animation studio. :)
Thanks for sharing, that was enlightening, often times I think about goals, and method takes the guilt out of not achieving and just systemizes it without all the emotion involved which honestly can be way more productive
This is a rather unconventional way of thinking, but it's something I start to agree with more and more. Believing in yourself isn't even a properly defined thing. You don't have to be confident in yourself to do the work. If you have a certain goal or task you need to complete, it will help to only focus on the task rather than yourself. if you're doing this task you are simply the ''vessel'' for completing it and at that point your abilities, fears, what other people think of you simply dont matter. Focus on the task, and stop focusing on yourself. Your abilities are your abilities, and there's no point fussing about them as they will not change when you don't do the task. I disagree about the not having any goals thing however. Having goals and breaking them down is pretty mandatory to get somewhere, not having any goals is like a ship without a destination, it will just end up beached somewhere. Mr Chiu, I can very much believe that you don't really care about goals because you mostly achieved everything you wanted, or at least most of it. Other people that have simply not ''made it'' as an artist yet are still in a completely different situation. It's a good example of the psychologists fallacy. In which people use their personal experience as the objective nature of a thing.
Thank you for making this video Bobby . I've been thinking about this lately , outside of the realm of commercial art also, Can't get a job (I don't know if its age or trying to change careers or bad CV) and people keep saying that creating my own business is super tough but maybe that's what I should aim for cause I do have ideas to solve some problems that I become aware of as I gain more knowledge.
i feel like my problem is that i invest all my energy into learning and trying to understand art at a certain level and that prevents me from taking other steps - like i'll neglect health, or sharing my art or meeting other artists for the sake of absorbing more - and it's not like i'm not learning, i do feel that i've been making progress, but is it fast enough? it feels a bit like there's a timer, like a window is shrinking and soon all that effort will have been in vain cause AI tools will eventually have evolved to a point where the kind of pictures i want to make wouldn't allow me to make a living - why pay me, or anyone when you could get a picture for free almost instantly?
No one knows the future so I’d just concentrate on using my time productively. I personally don’t think AI will make doing art obsolete. We should just stay on our path and see where the chips land with AI and its legal ramifications.
Get to a certain level? To do what? Then what happens when you reach that level? Will you not keep growing from there? It seems like that level is intangible, and you keep waiting for something to hit you to feel more confident in yourself about your art. The wonderful thing about art is its process, not its result. Don't get all stressed out on the speed of things. ENJOY creating. That is most important. If the laymen (non-artists) prefer "AI" over a human artist who can grow, learn, and understand good decisions from bad ones... then those people will suffer for it, and they will reduce meaning in their life (and will continue to produce bad content--not art.) Don't worry about these "AI" shenanigans. Seriously. No matter what, the art community will continue going strong learning from each other like we always have for thousands of years. Art will continue to evolve and be created and built upon by people like you. You have a unique voice with a unique artistic journey to follow. Please enjoy it, don't rush yourself through it or you won't like what you end up doing with art, and your art may bring you pain instead of pleasure. :( Speed only matters when you're getting paid a salary for it. Then that's for a career artist to keep up with and work on. Speed will comes with practice--the more you understand the fundamentals, the more you create, and the more you develop yourself... you will be inherently faster (and you won't even realize it at any point.) Please continue learning and creating art, friend!!
So basically you are saying if I follow the right steps with zero belief in myself, I will make it? Hmm this makes sense actually. It’s the steps that matter
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Everytime I have career crisis, I go here and to Adam Duff's chanel. Save me a lot of time. Just failed 3 job application and still going on.
I can truly connect with this. I've never believed in myself and the best thing I've done is to start ignoring that negative inner voice and starting to move. One step at a time, but we have to keep stepping❣
Right on Jordan
Yes! I always got scared, panic attack when I made an important decision, like apply for a job, and finally, give in to that, believe that my body is trying to tell me something. While it took me 3 years to get a job now, and a decent one, I don't know if it was a right thing to do, but I do believe that all those fear kind of lead me to where I am now, and I'm both happy and not satisfy with how I deal with that
When things get too stressful just remember that If you just did the same things without all the fears, you’d have the same outcome. Fear is like fire. It can be very good when it’s in a controlled amount
In another way, Van Gogh finished committing a suicide and still not sure to be a good painter, so it's more complex :)
action speaks the loudest
Ah i always play schoolism or bobby's videos while i work. love the mindset and the message. im latinoamerican and an inmigrant still in latinoamerica, currently working full time as a web developer, its been hard to find time to draw, sometimes theres the fear that even if i put effort it wont be enough to make a career out of art, and i think thats my biggest hurdle. the fear of losing my job and not being able to help my family. many people say and i agree thats hard to do art in pair with a job, its putting extra hours with a fried brain, and at the same time its what makes everything so important, and so worth it.
Also something that works for me always its the joy i feel when i learn, when im able to pan out what was made to reach an effect, how to imitate it, how to translate it, how to observe better, how to unwrap the way light works on an object, its addictive the same way levelling up on a game haha. as they say one can only play their own hand of cards, but you are still the player. the hand of cards might not be the best, but oh im stubborn enough to draw the cards myself i guess
Thanks for everything Chiu. i will save a bit and get a subscription maybe for my next birthday
It seems like your goal is not actually "to sharpen your pencil at Dreamworks" but you wanted to become a "successful artist". We often see "success" as "working at a big company" or "working for someone famous". But then, we realize that we just want to be happy, we just want fulfillment. At the end of the day, maybe you didn't get a job at Dreamworks, but you reached your goal as a successful artist.
Also, nothing in this world is guaranteed. We have a goal, we work hard, day and night, Monday to Sunday, yet there's still a chance we don't succeed. Sometimes it feels like our goal is unattainable, but we have to see inwards, what is it that we truly want? Identify what our goal is, if our method doesn't work, then we have to learn another route to reach it, instead of immediately changing our goal.
Everyone who succeeded in their goals failed in them first until they reached them ✊
its so true, because there will always be doubt and fear. only thing that matters is taking action and sticking to it long enough without quitting at the slightest hiccup, as I have done my whole life. Im actually in a similar position now where I have no choice but to do things I avoided. the biggest struggle will be to not listen to my perfectionist fears that prevent me from moving forward, the voices masquerading as logic.
Sometimes having limited choices is what we need. Good luck to you!
Great to have you and your wisdom back! Love you!
Thank you!!!! thank you!!
This video make me want me to share something about me: I worked on advertising agency for 8ish years as graphic designer, but I've always draw, and I've always think "I cannot live just drawing or painting", "that's not for me", "I need a "normal job", "I love drawing but for me it's impossible become an artist full time", etc...... then get fired. I freaked out, because I was paying very expensive english classes (I'm from Latinoamérica.. and maybe you can understand here it's a little bit harder become a full time artist, but not impossible), and started to freelance on the same: graphic design, saved some money and think Oh wow I can become a freelance designer and also have some time to paint and do my thing.. I need a laptop for that, worked a lot and save money, get the laptop, 2 or 3 months later get hired (no need the laptop for now haha) and 1 year later get fired again and I've just see: This is my opportunity to became a full time artist, it's now! I can do it. At the same time there's a world pandemic and some friends graphic designers get fired and I see was a difficult time to look for work, so.. the best I could do right now is try to make my dream come true, Again, work a lot but this time on my art. Also, I have the tools for work from any place in the world. It's better than I imagined.
Sometimes is a little bit stressful or difficult, but it's the most beautiful path and I want to walk more on it, I hope it never ends 🥺
Thank you so much for sharing Lorraine. You can do it
You're on the right track. The greatest way to succeed as an artist or creative person in general is by not having a "normal job" getting in the way. A day job is the true killer of creativity, passion, and soul. It's simply not for the creatives. I have seen too many dreams die just because they fell into a trap by thinking that getting a day job might help them. They earned enough money to survive and buy art tools, only to end up abandoning their dreams because they're too busy and physically, mentally and emotionally drained after work to actually pursue what they always wanted.
@@Kalitayy YES! Totally agree. I remember felt drained and I did a lot of things to keep creating but for me was hard, really hard I don't know the solution or had a nice advice about that. I remember I had the weekend free, but sometimes "there's work to do" and I had to go there, no extras, no payment, all day, sometimes I had to stay after hour and "my free time" of the day was vanished. It was very abusive :/
@@lorraine.rabbitExactly. Having a day job basically means you have to waste 8-10 hours worth of time and energy doing nothing that will help you reach your goals. You do the exact same mind-numbing thing everyday. Years feel like hours and hours feel like nanoseconds. The next thing you know you're 60, retired, and have achieved nothing. To me, the greatest failure a person can make in their life is getting a day job. That's one way to strip off your humanity and soul. One way to lose your life before you die.
Our generation was told many things that put so much pressure on achieving "great" things. "You can be anything", "If you can dream it you can do it" which is great, but a double-edged sword. It feels like we're a failure if we can't reach our goals, and sometimes, even if we do all the right things, circumstances are out of our control. It is tough to deal with the realization that most of the things are out of our control. However, you're right that most of the time, goals and dreams mean nothing without actually moving forward, ignoring fear a little bit, and just starting to actually bet on ourselves and putting in the effort. Thanks for your very insightful videos, and have a wonderful 2024!
Fear is the reason 'why' I keep my art to myself.
I need to get brave.
Thank you!
You can do it!
❤🐾 Thank you for the blind dog short 🤗 Really needed that 🙏
Do you resonate with Bobby's message of 'steps > goals'?
If so, I can't recommend this book enough -> "How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams
I'd heard the idea of "goals = bad, systems = good" before, but a particular chapter in the book really drove it home for me.
Hope it helps you too.
Thanks for the amazing vid Bobby!
I think i heard this just at the right time- the advice is always coincidental but sometimes its timing is impeccable!
You are my hero 😭😭I really needed this point , I am now more hopeful and I will continue so strong 😭😭Thank you Thank you 🙏🏻 🙏🏻 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😭😭😭😭😭
For me one of the basic steps is to work real hard, i don't mean like exhausting yourself, but always everyday try to give my best and always try to push a little more on what i do, never back down, always try to have better ideas and keep evolving
I had to think on this for a day. There is no one great who didn't have a goal or some self belief that it could happen. None of the artists or musicians or actors or atheletes that we all know and admire who didn't follow a vision. They all took different steps. Now, careerist people can absolutely take steps- take the right classes, make a resume, show experience- and get to a place. In both cases of a Visionary and a Careerist, they followed some intuitive choices and some logic but the Visionary leans towards intuition personality type and the Careerist towards logic and business. You can see it in the kind of work they make. Sometimes I'm more of a fine artist who hustles and sometimes an educator who either does online on my own or in a school environment- in education, you absolutely meet talented artists as teachers who didn't envision a career for what they make but what they knew. They inspire the kids to get jobs for other people. But the Visionary doesn't even "follow the right steps," they go in the metaphorical brush with a machete and then you get Guillermo Del Toro, Miyazaki, Bjork, Neil Gaiman, Radiohead, John Lennon etc. all these intuitive visionaries.
You wouldn't have gotten to where you are today without the original goal that was parallel and in the same direction as where you are today. Like if your original goal was to be a bodybuilder, it wouldn't have led to such a prolific art career. Your goal was in art and animation and you are very successful in art and animation. I think you exceeded your goal, which is a success. I think you were too specific with your original goal. If you changed "sharpening pencils at Dreamworks" to a more general getting a start at an animation studio, then you definitely reached your goal. Also not finding the job immediately has helped me personally grow as a person and handle situations I may not have encountered if I went straight to a dream job. My art and knowledge base has grown and changed as well. It sounds like your art definitely grew while trying to get your start in animation. You filled 3 books, so maybe you needed time for that. Still hoping for an entry level position at animation studio. :)
I really needed this. Thank you Bobby. 😊
Another wonderful and inspiring video Bobby! Fear is my problem but I’m slowly getting past it. ❤
Thanks for sharing, that was enlightening, often times I think about goals, and method takes the guilt out of not achieving and just systemizes it without all the emotion involved which honestly can be way more productive
Yep
This is a rather unconventional way of thinking, but it's something I start to agree with more and more. Believing in yourself isn't even a properly defined thing. You don't have to be confident in yourself to do the work. If you have a certain goal or task you need to complete, it will help to only focus on the task rather than yourself. if you're doing this task you are simply the ''vessel'' for completing it and at that point your abilities, fears, what other people think of you simply dont matter. Focus on the task, and stop focusing on yourself. Your abilities are your abilities, and there's no point fussing about them as they will not change when you don't do the task.
I disagree about the not having any goals thing however. Having goals and breaking them down is pretty mandatory to get somewhere, not having any goals is like a ship without a destination, it will just end up beached somewhere. Mr Chiu, I can very much believe that you don't really care about goals because you mostly achieved everything you wanted, or at least most of it. Other people that have simply not ''made it'' as an artist yet are still in a completely different situation. It's a good example of the psychologists fallacy. In which people use their personal experience as the objective nature of a thing.
I really enjoy these videos! Pretty nice one 😊
Random thought: I would love for Chris Do to interview you!
cool bud
Thank you for making this video Bobby . I've been thinking about this lately , outside of the realm of commercial art also, Can't get a job (I don't know if its age or trying to change careers or bad CV) and people keep saying that creating my own business is super tough but maybe that's what I should aim for cause I do have ideas to solve some problems that I become aware of as I gain more knowledge.
Plan well my friend. Not every path is meant to be taken but calculated risks can pay off well
i feel like my problem is that i invest all my energy into learning and trying to understand art at a certain level and that prevents me from taking other steps - like i'll neglect health, or sharing my art or meeting other artists for the sake of absorbing more - and it's not like i'm not learning, i do feel that i've been making progress, but is it fast enough? it feels a bit like there's a timer, like a window is shrinking and soon all that effort will have been in vain cause AI tools will eventually have evolved to a point where the kind of pictures i want to make wouldn't allow me to make a living - why pay me, or anyone when you could get a picture for free almost instantly?
No one knows the future so I’d just concentrate on using my time productively. I personally don’t think AI will make doing art obsolete. We should just stay on our path and see where the chips land with AI and its legal ramifications.
Get to a certain level? To do what? Then what happens when you reach that level? Will you not keep growing from there? It seems like that level is intangible, and you keep waiting for something to hit you to feel more confident in yourself about your art.
The wonderful thing about art is its process, not its result. Don't get all stressed out on the speed of things. ENJOY creating. That is most important. If the laymen (non-artists) prefer "AI" over a human artist who can grow, learn, and understand good decisions from bad ones... then those people will suffer for it, and they will reduce meaning in their life (and will continue to produce bad content--not art.) Don't worry about these "AI" shenanigans. Seriously.
No matter what, the art community will continue going strong learning from each other like we always have for thousands of years. Art will continue to evolve and be created and built upon by people like you. You have a unique voice with a unique artistic journey to follow. Please enjoy it, don't rush yourself through it or you won't like what you end up doing with art, and your art may bring you pain instead of pleasure. :(
Speed only matters when you're getting paid a salary for it. Then that's for a career artist to keep up with and work on. Speed will comes with practice--the more you understand the fundamentals, the more you create, and the more you develop yourself... you will be inherently faster (and you won't even realize it at any point.)
Please continue learning and creating art, friend!!
Are those 3 books still available for purchase?
They’re sold out but can be found on some secondary markets, eBay and some bookstores like Stuart Ng Books
This is the real law of attraction. Get off your butt and do it.
cowchop?🐮🔪
So basically you are saying if I follow the right steps with zero belief in myself, I will make it? Hmm this makes sense actually. It’s the steps that matter
He’s going full doomer, bruh
Post video me takes some of this back lol
"You just have to have the right mindset and the right steps". Ok but what are those steps, how do you get to know that TToTT
That’s different for each person and each goal. Keep searching
Oh boy, this is so wrong and terrible advice. Having faith in yourself is the only thing that will carry you in life.
Blud didn't watch the video