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Title: Be Friends With FAILURE!
Post by: Ms Grace on November 22, 2013, 05:15:58 PM
Post by: Ms Grace on November 22, 2013, 05:15:58 PM
This is simply marvellous. Even though it's intended for artists, as I read it I realised it could apply to pretty much everything - including and perhaps especially gender transition... :)
Please check it out... Be friends with failure (http://doodlealley.com/2012/10/10/be-friends-with-failure/)
Please check it out... Be friends with failure (http://doodlealley.com/2012/10/10/be-friends-with-failure/)
Title: Re: Be Friends With FAILURE!
Post by: Gabrielle on November 22, 2013, 05:20:53 PM
Post by: Gabrielle on November 22, 2013, 05:20:53 PM
"The Master has failed more times than the Beginner has even tried."
Wise words.
But I think that makes me a Grandmaster. :-\
Wise words.
But I think that makes me a Grandmaster. :-\
Title: Re: Be Friends With FAILURE!
Post by: kira21 ♡♡♡ on November 22, 2013, 05:34:10 PM
Post by: kira21 ♡♡♡ on November 22, 2013, 05:34:10 PM
like :-)
Title: Re: Be Friends With FAILURE!
Post by: JillSter on November 22, 2013, 08:08:44 PM
Post by: JillSter on November 22, 2013, 08:08:44 PM
OMG! I got to this line: "Whoa! Fail! You suck at talking!" and I burst! LMAO! :laugh:
That was great! It really does have a lot of wisdom in it. :)
That was great! It really does have a lot of wisdom in it. :)
Title: Re: Be Friends With FAILURE!
Post by: Carrie Liz on November 23, 2013, 02:17:16 AM
Post by: Carrie Liz on November 23, 2013, 02:17:16 AM
Love it!!!
And yeah, definitely applies to transition. I felt like that also the first few times I went out... kind of like "OMG what the hell am I doing, I can't do this, I should just give up," where as time went on I slowly got better and better at it, and I'd look back at those initial attempts and almost chuckle at how hilariously bad my first attempts at "passing" were. But if I hadn't gone through that stage, had never tried, I never would have made it to that point where I could look back and laugh. I'd still be there.
And yeah, definitely applies to transition. I felt like that also the first few times I went out... kind of like "OMG what the hell am I doing, I can't do this, I should just give up," where as time went on I slowly got better and better at it, and I'd look back at those initial attempts and almost chuckle at how hilariously bad my first attempts at "passing" were. But if I hadn't gone through that stage, had never tried, I never would have made it to that point where I could look back and laugh. I'd still be there.
Title: Re: Be Friends With FAILURE!
Post by: TerriT on November 23, 2013, 02:28:43 AM
Post by: TerriT on November 23, 2013, 02:28:43 AM
That was very charming. My hero Adam Hughes said something like "everyone has 10,000 horrible drawings inside them, so get through those and you're on your way."
Title: Re: Be Friends With FAILURE!
Post by: Lo on November 23, 2013, 10:39:45 AM
Post by: Lo on November 23, 2013, 10:39:45 AM
All true stuff!
I'm always charmed by the folks that go through people's sketchbooks and expect to find page after page of masterpieces instead of awful doodles and stick figures, lol.
I'm always charmed by the folks that go through people's sketchbooks and expect to find page after page of masterpieces instead of awful doodles and stick figures, lol.