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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Do what You Love? This article argues maybe not:
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...I’ve come to the ironic conclusion that for writers, artists, and just about everyone, “do what you love” is actually terrible advice... More here: http://www.deliberate.rest/?p=67
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Sep 17, 2014, landmark wrote: Good article. Thanks for sharing. Passion and committment are neccesary of course, but as the article says too many people ignore reality, deluding themselves into thinking the universe will reward them automatically. They look before they leap and have no contingency plan, if they had any plan at all. Then reality slaps them a few times and they find themselves adrift. This was the best advice imo - "Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.” Close knew that to get work done, you have to treat your creative life like a regular job. Given the “do what you love” ideal, it’s ironic that people who have long creative lives actually learn to treat their creative work like… well, a regular job." Treating it like a job brings discipline and a realistic approach. You get up everyday and you get to work.
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts |
Well, to be fair, he doesn't really argue against do what you love, he more specifically states, "The problem with the “do what you love” mantra is in how we follow it, which is with a single-mindedness that carries unnecessary risk."
So, do what you love, just don't be stupid about how you go about doing it! When first reading the OP I thought he was going to claim that people tend to start to hate what they love when it becomes a job. I'm glad that wasn't his point. (Although I wouldn't be surprised if that happens somewhat regularly also! I used to love making video games until the job sucked the life out of me.) |
Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
And still...
Do what you love.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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Think of it this way. Who has ever said, “Man, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis would have reached their potential if only they had resigned their professorships at Oxford and become full-time novelists” or, “Spinoza’s philosophy would have sucked less if he’d sold his lens-grinding business”? Nobody. I suspect the DWYL ideology is a great-grandchild of the 19th-20th-21st century romanticized notion of the artist, suffering for the sake of authentic expression. Before this time, we had the more pragmatic Samuel Johnson tell us that "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." Modern Shakespeare authorship-conspiracy theorists cannot fathom that, having made his fortune, Shakespeare retired completely from writing. He would have been much closer to Johnson than the DWYL crowd in this regard. Oh well, back to the grind. Have to pay the bills and all, y'know?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
Jim Carrey on how his late father inspired him to follow his dreams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajMpfPYlHi4 "You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance at doing what you love."
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
I posted this somewhere else, but it fits here as well;
We have a company magazine here at Wal-Mart, this month's issue has to do with "talent." There is a Wal-Mart associate in North Carolina, named Eric S. Brown who wrote short stories on his own time and sent them to "genre magazines," managing to sell quite a few. In time, he managed to sell a novel "The War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies" Several other novels followed and he could have quit to write full-time, but chose to stay. Then in 2013, one of his "cult hits" ("Bigfoot War" was optioned for a movie starring C. Thomas Howell and Judd Nelson. With his advance, he again could have quit his job but chose to stay. His wife on the other hand has left her position as a teacher to spend more time at home with their children.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts |
.....then do the one you're with.
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Try to love what you do, even if it's the washing up.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Who do you think has it easier: the cook or the washer?
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