Some good Friday Fuel for you.
Lesson 1: Stop waiting and take action.
The lesson about creative thinking I learned from Van Gogh is action.
Just do it. Stop waiting and start working toward what you want. What we
think, or what we know, or what we believe something is, in the end, of
no consequence. The only consequence is what we actually do.
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It was very difficult at times, but he believed nobody can do as he
wishes in the beginning when you start but everything will be all right
in the end. Each day he made every effort to improve because he knew
making beautiful paintings meant painstaking work, disappointment and
perseverance. In the end, Van Gogh produced 2000 works of art between
1880 and 1890 (1100 paintings and 900 sketches). That’s 4 works of art a
week for a decade, and he didn’t start making art until his mid
twenties.
Lesson 2: commit and go through the motions
His advice was if you do nothing, you are nothing. You must keep working
and keep working come what may. Even when your final goal is not clear,
the goal will become clearer and will emerge slowly but surely, much as
the rough drawing turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting
through the serious work done on it and through the elaboration of the
original vague idea and through the consolidation of your fleeting and
passing thoughts on it as you work.
Lesson 3: do your own work
When [the Wright brothers] constantly worked on their idea and learned through trial and
error, they were energizing their brains by increasing the number of
contacts between neurons.
Lesson 4: don't wait for perfect moments
Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect.
There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect
conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will
grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more
self-confident and more and more successful. We are what we repeatedly
do.
The whole piece, HERE.
