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[cf2princessawnw]

By someone who was paralyzed and lost everything but built it all back up tenfold. A simple youtube commenter going by the name Blaze High. Someone else in the thread asked how she did it, and she said some simple honest things about not giving up, working hard to build strength back, having to be creative in building a different business now, but

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[taylorj1037]

Interesting video! Thanks for sharing it.

The video assumes an adversarial environment in which people will attack you if they know what you're doing. Maybe I'm a Pollyanna, but I hope most of the world isn't like that.

I have a professional friend who is relatively new to the field. She posts a lot on twitter, which has helped her build a lot of good relationships with leaders in the field. However, she's also had a lot of false starts, and all those posts about what she's working on that never pan out probably don't help.

[cf2princessawnw]

It's funny you mention Pollyanna because I was listening to that thinking I'm too much of one! :) I'm trying to get back out into the world again from isolation, and I tend to think everyone has the same fervor and clarity of wanting to live life to the fullest and help each other to that goal. But apparently people out there already have found there are haters. I have them here in my family, but I tend forget they exist out there too. Just have to weed through to find the ones that aren't like that. I agree with you that I don't believe everyone out there is like that

[taylorj1037]

Thanks!

If you've got people in your immediate orbit who tear your ideas down, keeping quiet about things until they're ready makes sense. No need to give them any fuel.

I hope you can find people who will support you and who you can bounce ideas off of when you need inspiration or a reality check. If not nearby, then that's what we're all here for, cf2princessawnw!

[cf2princessawnw]

Thank you for your kind and thoughtful reply. I'm hoping too to find nearby new support, and in the meantime, as always, I value our little tribe so very much!

[gottawonder]

When I started doing pottery at the studio I'm with now, the atmosphere felt very adversarial. At the time, the members didn't really want new people joining, and I really had to push to get registered there. The one ally who helped me to get into the studio made it seem like it was me and her going to tear the old system apart, and we sort of have

[bcegda]

I was bummed that she died but she was pretty old, so

was thinking the other day how I got as far in that book as the part where you're supposed to put your life in order, then i lost interest, LOL. Typical.

AS a creative but financially useless person I can understand when ppl resent others' for their good fortune, just because they found a way to capitalize on their contribution to the world. I was talking to someone the other day who said something like "either you're in creative or entrepreneurial mode" and that is true - it's 2 different functions, creativity v entrepreneurial and some of us just don't have the latter at all. But I in general don't feel that way - I say if someone succeeded and made bank due to being more entrepreneurial or fortunate connections, bully for them. Only when the stuff that succeeded was utter crap, like the 50 Shades of Vomit thing. The only reason that thing became a thing was becasue the writer was a PR professional.

[gottawonder]

Yes, I relate a lot to what you've said about creative mode vs. entrepreneurial mode. I resist selling any of my work, because I don't want it to shape my vision in any way. I don't want to be the person who paints or makes pottery based on whether or not people like it or buy it. Van Gogh was like this. He was mostly supported by his brother, and didn't sell much of his work because he didn't want money to influence how he painted. Then, you look at many other artists, and they painted religious works for the church, because that's who had enough money to hire them. Who knows what they would have painted if they weren't trying to earn a living. I feel like Louis L. Hay wasn't quite in the realm of creating art, though I'm sure money did influence how she marketed her books. It can be hard to know if someone really has your best interest at heart when they also are earning a living from helping you

[bcegda]

I'm prob one of the few ppl on earth who actually got something out of Damien Hirst - same with Yoko - I grokked what he was doing and it affected me immensely (the cow things) but point well taken. I have lots of bookmarks on how commodity high dollar expectations have completely turned the 'high art' world topsy turvy, to where it's more about celebrity and possibly shock value and defo trendiness who is actually selling or not

an interesting book is Art and Fear, on the perils of Making Art, they talk about this sort of issue, and creativity in general, etc. Not a big book but powerful

[bcegda]

wow, that last quote is super relevant to me right now

[cf2princessawnw]

hope it can help you too! <3