After a period of slacking off, you might start thinking: “What’s the point in picking back up again?” It’s easy at this point to begin forgetting how much you already know. Even if you’re not ready to go directly after your career goals just yet, you might, after picking up the tools once again, discover … Continue reading Momentum
One of the results of assuming the antitruths I described earlier, is remaining trapped in your comfort zone. There is a certain honesty, and potential for accountability, in showing off your scribbly doodles if that is all you have managed to make yourself do. But nobody really wants to see very much of that, and … Continue reading Taking the plunge
Gesture drawing is an important form of practice, but it’s easy to get trapped in it, telling yourself that there’s no point in moving on from the first thirty seconds of a drawing until you can get that part right. There is a certain rationale to this. If you build a house, and the frame … Continue reading Trapped by antitruths
Thirty is the age of “adulthood for real, this time.” Even if you screw up in college, it’s still far enough in the future that it looks like a perfectly reasonable goal, to get back on track toward your lifetime goals. In one sense, it is a reasonable goal. In theory, five years is enough … Continue reading Commit to doing something
Whimsical Sinkhole: Art by George A. Freeland 