Rec | LET YOURSELF BE BAD AT SOMETHING!!

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Make things, stop thinking about making things and just make things. Don’t make things that potentially will make a profit. Let yourself fail (which you probably aren't). Don’t even tell anyone you want to start, take the pressure off it. We aren’t all child prodigies. THATS OKAY! and GOOD! Stop thinking, start doing :)

@findingfranque

Sep 6, 2024

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being shitty at things

it's okay to be bad at stuff!! don't let some video of an 8 year-old (insert skill here) prodigy make you feel inconsequential. make shitty music. draw like a little kindergartener who can't hold a pencil very well. fail at landing an ollie. it's better to start somewhere and be terrible at first (with room to improve) than never start at all.

@verygoodvalentina

Jan 23, 2024

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do it for fun, not because you’re good

i’m such an advocate for regular ass people doing art. or anything new that “requires skill” really we are so scared of doing things because we’re not any good at them. so what. karaoke with the confidence of a popstar even if your voice cracks and you don’t know breath support. paint even if it looks like a toddler made it. play the same three guitar chords and paint your furniture with a kitchen sponge and try to bake macarons. it’s so sad that people who aren’t, like, professionally skilled, get laughed at for their art. or like i said, trying any skill that isn’t honed yet there’s something so important and human in the arts, its such an amazing outlet but people refuse to tap into it because they “can’t draw a stick figure” or “write too cliche” or “have two left feet”. DO IT POORLY!!!!! DO IT SCARED!!!!! DO THE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO DEEP DOWN IN YOUR SOUL EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU’RE BAD AND FEEL EMBARASSED!!!!! let yourself have fun with things!!!!!!!! it shouldn’t be a competition all the time. you probably are not ariana grande, but you’re allowed to have fun singing and stuff too. if you have a voice in your head that laughs at you when you’re not immediately good at something, learn to gently correct it. tell it you’re learning and you’ll never be any good at something if you don’t have the courage to just….start. somewhere, anywhere

@bl4nkc4nv4s

Feb 1, 2025

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accept that you will be bad at it

I relate to this heavily. There's lots of reasons why you might be stuck in this loop, but for me, it's because I'm a perfectionist. If you're like me, you have to accept that you're going to be bad at whatever it is you're wanting to do. You're going to suck, and that's a good thing because you can't be good at something unless you get through being bad at it. If you were given Gifted and Talented status as a child, you were probably deprived of this lesson and will need to learn it now. After you've acquired the cheapest and most basic version of whatever materials are needed, make the next item on your to-do list some version "suck at doing the thing".