I wish I had even 1% of this talent, but my brain is perpetually starved of dopamine so I never have the drive pursue my hobbies. So I’m forced to get my dopamine from artificial sources. But then that eventually stops working too, which makes things even worse.
I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer
There’s more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I’m spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass
to accomplish a goal everyone needs two things, the desire, and the circumstances. Desire is internal, but circumstances are usually out of our control. It sounds like your circumstances are challenging. You might not be able to do what you wish you could, but you’re still beautiful. I didn’t know you, but I bet your tastes are killer
Blows my mind every time seeing a painting like this that can only be recognized as a painting by zooming in until you can see texture/brush strokes.
Looks like a damn photograph otherwise.
I wish I had even 1% of this talent, but my brain is perpetually starved of dopamine so I never have the drive pursue my hobbies. So I’m forced to get my dopamine from artificial sources. But then that eventually stops working too, which makes things even worse.
Man I really feel this
I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:
There’s more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I’m spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass
Having a lack of executive function is the big hurdle. All the motivation and desire in the world doesn’t help against that. :/
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to accomplish a goal everyone needs two things, the desire, and the circumstances. Desire is internal, but circumstances are usually out of our control. It sounds like your circumstances are challenging. You might not be able to do what you wish you could, but you’re still beautiful. I didn’t know you, but I bet your tastes are killer