Talent is overrated. The name of the game is practice.
The craft of the top performer isn’t perfect because of their talent. It’s perfected by the endless hours of practice they put in. And so can you.
Developing Creative Stamina
From finger paint to art. How to develop Creative Stamina to create even when you're not feeling it. From waiting for inspiration to creating inspiration.
Josh Kaufman - The first 20 hours of learning anything
So, after Malcolm Gladwell wrote Outliers, we’ve been stuck in a game of telephone. We’ve slowly come to think that it takes 10,000 hours to learn a skill. Instead of it taking that long to become really good at a skill. What if it only took 20 hours?
Viljami Salminen - Typography for User Interfaces
So, I’m a bit of nerd when it comes to some things. I take great interest in things that have little use to me in everyday life. Like typography (even though it can safe your life). I really liked this piece on the right way to use typography; focusing on its practical implications.
Vox - Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time
I like Vox. And I like hiphop. So, no surprise I really liked their reconstruction of rap and how the greatest rhyme. Very well done visualization of different rhymes to show the evolution of the craft. Very fun watch that’ll give you new admiration for these artists.
Every Frame a Painting
Great YouTube channel that takes apart and explains aspects of storytelling with movies. How Scorcese uses silences. How Jackie Chan is the GOAT of action comedy. How Robin Williams was a master of movement. And how Vancouver plays every city but itself.
Noah Bradley - How I became an artist (The 12 year journey of my art thus far)
Very cool to read his journey of becoming an artist. Following a very non-liniear path with many twists and turns. Seeing the progress he makes in his work visually (lot of pictures included) is especially cool and re-emphasizes the importance to always keep developing yourself!