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@Machinainterna
2010-06-03 18:04:09
Chuck!
WHAT GANG? I WASNT THERE. - doiwehfoiwhefoihwaeofi 2010-06-01 12:02:01 Hi
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Theme Music to Parts of My Life?
2010-05-14 05:00:07
It seems like anytime that things get a little =/ or =( this song would play in my playlist today o.O
VNV Nation - Holding On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCUHClheiZk
- WATCH IT! 2010-04-10 02:29:10 http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=175605
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Talent
2010-03-19 07:32:06
There's no such thing as talent. Some people do the work, some people don't.
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seeing 'talent' is to mistakenly perceive a skill as being something magically bestowed or easily attained, rather than learned through hard work and repetition.
if somebody learns faster than you it's probably because they've honed their learning skills more than you have.
with the exception of those unfortunate enough to be mentally or physically incapacitated in some way, i think most people are pretty much functionally identical.
if you think 'i can't do x/y/z no matter how hard i try, because i lack the necessary talent' you are being narrow minded. you can't do x/y/z because you lack the relevant knowledge and experience. if you are having trouble learning, you need to talk to peers and superiors and find a better way to learn. You WILL be rubbish when you start (check me out), and quite possibly for a very long time thereafter.
and finally, i don't think it's good to learn to draw by just doing manga. your abilities will be limited by your lack of experience and understanding. manga is abstracted and stylised from reality. understanding how to see life and how to draw from life is the best way to learn.
-Blabbler ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zATilH-orO0 )
hmm, when i decided to go into the arts over doing something like becoming a doctor, I had the same mindset about talent. I truly believed that I could learn by studying different methods and getting a lot of practice. It's only when I forgot about that and stopped having the passion for learning that my thoughts started to drift into the idea that I may not be creative enough or may not have the talent for something.
It's a stupid way to think and only an excuse for when you dont accomplish something as good as you want to. Recently, I got myself together a little and I still am. You can learn by pushing yourself. It was once I started learning about the various aspects of design and animation that other things I work on became better. It made me a better editor. Most of the time, when you're not getting something, it's because you're doing something wrong and people with experience can point that out.
In the end, you shape your mind to think a certain way that affects the way you perceive things. That is where people mistaken talent to come from. These 'talented' people had their minds shaped to think a certain way because of their surroundings and the things they learned early on.
No person who has never heard music or seen it played will ever be able to one day pick up an instrument and be magically talented to pick up on how they're supposed to play it. However, people who have heard an instrument many times and have seen it played may have a better grasp and may to play learn faster but that's only because they were actually learning by their surroundings before they even picked up the instrument
So, it's a matter of learning different techniques and gaining experience so that you can reshape the way your mind thinks and perceive things so that your mind will begin naturally pick up on what it's supposed when you're 'talented'
I almost forgot about all this. Thanks for reminding me, blabbler ^_^ It's what every person needs to hear when things get tough in the learning process. It's something that I always believed when I was young, I should have never thought otherwise for a second:
Back in high school, I was barred from taking some advanced placement classes because of standardized test scores. The administration that that I didnt had what it takes to do well in AP English. In terms of grades, I was seen as while above average, I was nothing special. I made the administration allow me in AP English and in class, I ended up out performing a lot of students that were regularly accepted. When I was in the class, a lot of students looked at the exam as something you couldnt study for because it was about a skill that you either 'had or didnt have.' I believed that you could study and every day cracked open the practice books to prepare. Exam day came and a lot of the 'talented' students who usually breezed through the material easily werent able to finish the multiple choice section of the exam. I was able to though no problem. In the end, it was a matter of developing skills through self-teaching. I will say I did not pass the first AP english exam I took, but I was allowed in the AP literature class the next year and I did end up passing that exam. It was a matter of experience this time around and better developed skills that I taught myself by doing what everyone else said didnt matter.
Still on high school stuff, I ended up with one of the higher ACT scores in the class despite just making the top half of the class GPA wise and I ended up getting accepted into one of the better universities of my class.
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