Cynical Bro…Teachers?!
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“I love and buy art but I myself am not an artist.
I am, however, a teacher.
Ira Glass:
Nobody tells people who are beginners… and I really wish somebody had told this to me… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it, and we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there’s a gap… that for the first couple of years you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good – it’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good but it’s not quite that good. But your taste – the thing that got you into the game, your taste is still killer! And your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past that phase, a lot of people at that point they quit. And the thing that I would just like to say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste, they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be. They knew it fell short. It didn’t have this special thing that we wanted it to have. And the thing that I would say to you is everybody goes through that. And for you to go through it, if you’re going through it right now, if you’re just getting out of that phase is you gotta know it’s totally normal, and the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week or every month you know you’re going to finish one story. Because it’s only by going through an actual volume of work, that you’re actually going to catch up and close that gap. And the work that you’re making will be as good as you’re ambitions. It takes a while, it’s gonna take you a while, it’s normal to take a while. And you just have to fight your way through that.”
Back to your episode—I can’t believe that “Maybe your art just isn’t good enough” was part of the podcast. As a teacher, I was always taught to flip the narrative to find the positive. How about saying, “Your work is great, study what sells in (children’s books, comic books, etc.) and use your skills and your talent and always keep studying toward the market you plan to enter.” Otherwise you might discourage a highly talented kid from their ultimate potential.
Sorry, but even if you’re laughing and having a good time while criticizing someone else’s work, that person is listening and pushing back against your words instead of learning what needs to be changed. People instantly dig in against criticism and become defensive. I bet when you read this review’s title you became defensive, too, and you instantly wanted to hate me. That’s exactly why I chose the title. Hopefully you can be more constructive than critical when someone asks for help and wonders why their art isn’t selling.”
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