Art and fear

Forgive me for taking the time to repeat how I found this book Art and Fear. One day, I sent a special email from instructor xin to tell us three books, I searched for comments on the Internet and found that everyone praised this book (of course, others are good, but I have forgotten that it is a magic horse ). Quickly and decisively rushed to the 5F library to get the loan.

The cover is exquisite and concise, making people look comfortable.

There are a lot of good insights in the book, although it mainly talks about art and many stories about giving up art due to fear. However, life has always had different performances, but the same principle is everywhere. From such a good book, we can see the true meaning of many life. I also selected another note, which tells me the most profound piece. S

(Page 6) The point is that you learn how to make you work by making your work, lots of work.

There is a saying in China: Everything is difficult at the beginning. Everyone seems to know this truth, so when deciding to start one thing, we usually think for a long time, but more often we still don't know how to start after thinking for a long time, you have to give up. Its name is: I think twice and find that I do not know how to do it. Afterwards, I think it may be wise to give up. But is it really worth it? What if I fail? If I didn't do it, how can I know that it really doesn't work?

How to start is not a problem. It doesn't actually matter much. In this world, we have to admit that there are so many people who are naturally amazing, but more people who are just as common as us. I don't know how to start when facing new things. So I start from the ground up and grow at 1.1. One day, you will find that you can actually do it. The beginning or the end is not perfect.

(Page 29) The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. all those on the left side of the studio, he said, wocould be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. his procedure was simple: on the final day of class he wocould bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: Copyright ty pound of pots rated an "", forty pounds a "B", and so on. those being graded on "quality", however, needed to produce only one pot-albeit a perfect one-to get an "". well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. it seems that while the "quantity" group was busily Churchill out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes-the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay."

　　

I believe many people have heard the story of this ceramic course. They divide the students into two groups, one group is graded by quantity, and the other group is graded by quality. After one semester, the pottery works appeared in the group with a certain score. I listened to this story for the first time. It was in instructor Yan's class. At that time, I thought that I had to keep exercising and trying. I just thought that most of the time it was impossible to achieve something.

This reminds me of our software engineering team project, which is a cool chat software. Our original intention is to make a warm chat tool for couples, but now the Beta version is coming soon, some features are still not implemented, which is different from our initial expectation. It is like the first time we held pottery, we had a lot of things, but we had to consider a lot of practical problems when we were doing our best. Fortunately, we started and gained a lot, try and practice. It's like writing code. If you don't stick to writing, you won't be able to improve your skills. Only by persistently trying and training can we succeed.

It is a species of fear-the fear that your fate is in your own hands, but that your hands are weak. but while talent-not to mention fate, luck, and tragedy-all play their role in human destiny, they hardly rank as dependable tools for advancing your own art on a day-to-day basis."

The author said, "smart" means that they can make things easier. He is only a gift at most, but not a must for a person to succeed. Those who really make a difference must have paid incomparable hardships, but do not think this is a hard task. Like Shen Xiangyang's former president, he is already a person similar to a talented person. When he went to school at CMU, he still learned from PM to AM. Success was not that easy. What we don't get through a solid foundation is just a house built on the beach that cannot withstand the storm.

Therefore, stop complaining about your own failures and stop the fear of the beginning. If you take the first step, do it with your head, keep trying, repeat, and fail, as long as you don't give up, it will be successful.