I think more people should open up on how much effort is put into stuff. How much training and/or preparation it takes.
Nowadays inexperienced people (usually youths) see the flawless result and think that it is effortless and then get devastated when it doesn't work for them or it takes more effort than they thought. And it can instill resentment. They think that something is wrong with them as they can't do a thing what seems easy to them.
Like people who complain that people effortlessly socialise, while they are constantly stumble. They are not aware that that person did all of their stumbling in childhood or that the person is thinking that they are screwing things up.
Someone had said "if we were learning to walk as adults, we would still be crawling as we would have fallen a few times and decided that walking is overrated".
Though there is also a bit of a problem with the effortless people as they might no longer remember how much effort it took them to learn stuff that they just go "i just did it without thinking", which is not a good advice for someone who has never done it.
Like I can't tell you how the heck did I learn german just from watching german tv (and no one in myhousehold knwe german). I was at least 3.5 years old when I started. I have no clue how long I watched tv without understanding a thing and how I figured out what words mean what.
And if you think about it, it is facinating how babies learned the native language through associacions alone. Unlike how we adults tend to learn by translation of words.
This! We need a back room or something to not lose sight of the intricacies of creation. I think this loss of sight comes in cycles for me, and then I have to be reminded that this is how it is for everyone. Frustration, cluelessness, imposter syndrome, and many more of these uncomfortable feelings are a part of the process of creating something, and they vary project to project!
I think the rhetoric that we use to describe effortlessness, where something "just comes to/flows out of me," seemingly out of nowhere, is itself obfuscative of the larger process, even when true. You've already demonstrated the prerequisite time and care which goes in to achieving a tone or style; what these turns of phrase also hide is what needs to be done *after* something has been birthed of your 'effortlessness': the necessary steps of tinkering, tailoring, interfacing, and publishing before a work can see the light of day. All of these elements can sometimes be assisted, sure, but then require the effort of communicating with a potentially frustrating correspondant. And, we should not forget, the effort of that correspondant. You've done a great job here at showing that effortlessness is possible only at the expense of effort; I'd add it's crucial to acknowledge that when it isn't yours, it is someone else's.
I think more people should open up on how much effort is put into stuff. How much training and/or preparation it takes.
Nowadays inexperienced people (usually youths) see the flawless result and think that it is effortless and then get devastated when it doesn't work for them or it takes more effort than they thought. And it can instill resentment. They think that something is wrong with them as they can't do a thing what seems easy to them.
Like people who complain that people effortlessly socialise, while they are constantly stumble. They are not aware that that person did all of their stumbling in childhood or that the person is thinking that they are screwing things up.
Someone had said "if we were learning to walk as adults, we would still be crawling as we would have fallen a few times and decided that walking is overrated".
Though there is also a bit of a problem with the effortless people as they might no longer remember how much effort it took them to learn stuff that they just go "i just did it without thinking", which is not a good advice for someone who has never done it.
Like I can't tell you how the heck did I learn german just from watching german tv (and no one in myhousehold knwe german). I was at least 3.5 years old when I started. I have no clue how long I watched tv without understanding a thing and how I figured out what words mean what.
And if you think about it, it is facinating how babies learned the native language through associacions alone. Unlike how we adults tend to learn by translation of words.
This! We need a back room or something to not lose sight of the intricacies of creation. I think this loss of sight comes in cycles for me, and then I have to be reminded that this is how it is for everyone. Frustration, cluelessness, imposter syndrome, and many more of these uncomfortable feelings are a part of the process of creating something, and they vary project to project!
I think the rhetoric that we use to describe effortlessness, where something "just comes to/flows out of me," seemingly out of nowhere, is itself obfuscative of the larger process, even when true. You've already demonstrated the prerequisite time and care which goes in to achieving a tone or style; what these turns of phrase also hide is what needs to be done *after* something has been birthed of your 'effortlessness': the necessary steps of tinkering, tailoring, interfacing, and publishing before a work can see the light of day. All of these elements can sometimes be assisted, sure, but then require the effort of communicating with a potentially frustrating correspondant. And, we should not forget, the effort of that correspondant. You've done a great job here at showing that effortlessness is possible only at the expense of effort; I'd add it's crucial to acknowledge that when it isn't yours, it is someone else's.