BEDA No. 20: my friends
Before this entry will make any sense, you'll have to read these other blog posts first, if you haven't already:
http://nerimon.diaryland.com/2502.html
http://nerimon.diaryland.com/2503.html
http://johnnydurham.com/wasting-time/
Now... here's an email I sent to Alex this morning, one I was going to paraphrase here today, so I thought I would just copy paste it for you:
Subject: with my freezeray I will find the time
Hey nerifriend,
I'm all for you uncomplicating your life as much as possible, and I don't mind too much that you unsubscribed (we communicate better via email about that kind of stuff anyway, as you rarely comment publicly), but I do want to bring up one point that might not be covered in the 4-Hour Workweek. Let me start with a quote from Stephen King:
“Let me get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing right at you out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” Stephen King
On Writing, Page 37
Emphasis was added by me. I worry that by drastically reducing your idea input (meaning, being exposed to way less random unrelated ideas posted by other vloggers, other twitterers, other bloggers), that your idea output will also drop-off dramatically once you're finished with the projects you have cached.
Sure, take a month off from everything and finish your album, edit Skyers, put together the trock comp. But once your current cache of ideas are gone, I think you'll find yourself much less inspired having only your own old recycled ideas to work with.
Skyers wouldn't exist if other YouTubers and twitterers hadn't told you about nanowrimo, and you hadn't participated with everyone else who was involved. If other YouTubers hadn't embraced Trock and sent you their songs and encouraged you guys to continue, would Chameleon Circuit or the Trock comp even exist?
By symbolically "freezing" your input and experiences from others at their current place in time, you're freezing your ability to learn and grow from other people's experiences in addition to your own.
4-Hour Workweek is written for people stuck in cubicles or those who work from home with pre-defined tasks. I don't believe the book was written with "artists" in mind. Most artists require constant stimulation and inspiration to drive their creativity.
That's not to say you need to follow 1,000 people, or spend four hours a day watching YouTube videos. But I feel you may be over-embracing ideas that were meant to give CEOs and secretaries more time to spend with their kids or to go to the gym. I doubt the author would support a mass friend dump that leaves you alone with only your own thoughts and opinions to bounce your.. well, own thoughts and opinions off of.
Alan
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Subscribers: 13,926 (+113 subs today)
http://nerimon.diaryland.com/2502.html
http://nerimon.diaryland.com/2503.html
http://johnnydurham.com/wasting-time/
Now... here's an email I sent to Alex this morning, one I was going to paraphrase here today, so I thought I would just copy paste it for you:
Subject: with my freezeray I will find the time
Hey nerifriend,
I'm all for you uncomplicating your life as much as possible, and I don't mind too much that you unsubscribed (we communicate better via email about that kind of stuff anyway, as you rarely comment publicly), but I do want to bring up one point that might not be covered in the 4-Hour Workweek. Let me start with a quote from Stephen King:
“Let me get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing right at you out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” Stephen King
On Writing, Page 37
Emphasis was added by me. I worry that by drastically reducing your idea input (meaning, being exposed to way less random unrelated ideas posted by other vloggers, other twitterers, other bloggers), that your idea output will also drop-off dramatically once you're finished with the projects you have cached.
Sure, take a month off from everything and finish your album, edit Skyers, put together the trock comp. But once your current cache of ideas are gone, I think you'll find yourself much less inspired having only your own old recycled ideas to work with.
Skyers wouldn't exist if other YouTubers and twitterers hadn't told you about nanowrimo, and you hadn't participated with everyone else who was involved. If other YouTubers hadn't embraced Trock and sent you their songs and encouraged you guys to continue, would Chameleon Circuit or the Trock comp even exist?
By symbolically "freezing" your input and experiences from others at their current place in time, you're freezing your ability to learn and grow from other people's experiences in addition to your own.
4-Hour Workweek is written for people stuck in cubicles or those who work from home with pre-defined tasks. I don't believe the book was written with "artists" in mind. Most artists require constant stimulation and inspiration to drive their creativity.
That's not to say you need to follow 1,000 people, or spend four hours a day watching YouTube videos. But I feel you may be over-embracing ideas that were meant to give CEOs and secretaries more time to spend with their kids or to go to the gym. I doubt the author would support a mass friend dump that leaves you alone with only your own thoughts and opinions to bounce your.. well, own thoughts and opinions off of.
Alan
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Hayley is hot.
Subscribers: 13,926 (+113 subs today)