Persistence is the answer to all problems.
I smell a rant
Short story: This weekend, I knew full well that updating my Ubuntu to 10.04 could bugger up my ghetto-ass but wonderfully huge $49 Aldi Medion Tablet, rendering her useless, but I did it anyway. And guess what? It did. Fucksocks. So I spent 3 days trying to make it work, probably 7-8 hours invested in forums, the goddam terminal, restarting, every alchemical voodoo combination possible- but, here I am now, a working tablet, a happy, giddy sumbitch. Now, if I tell average Joe about this, they will think "this guy is good at computers." Yeah right!
As an artist, I hate the word "talent." Do these people have any idea how much time I've put in to get to where I am, and how much more to get to where I want to be? Talent? Fuck talent! Persistence! I like to think I am a "persistent hack," I pretty much fuck up until I get something presentable (in my sole opinion of course).
The great thing about this, or 2 great things, is that A) you learn the best way, by fucking up, and B) you discover that you can do anything reasonably well by just doing it A LOT. People are capable of anything, the only limit is your desire to do so.
I think educational systems limit people as well, everybody learns differently. As a physics major in college, I had no idea what the hell was going on, because it was all explained mathematically. If concept was introduced first, in detail, the math would have made much more sense! I think schools can push people in the wrong way, Fuck, lost my train of thought, too many distractions! haha, shit, I'll click "add blog" anyway, feel free to comment!
I smell a rant
Short story: This weekend, I knew full well that updating my Ubuntu to 10.04 could bugger up my ghetto-ass but wonderfully huge $49 Aldi Medion Tablet, rendering her useless, but I did it anyway. And guess what? It did. Fucksocks. So I spent 3 days trying to make it work, probably 7-8 hours invested in forums, the goddam terminal, restarting, every alchemical voodoo combination possible- but, here I am now, a working tablet, a happy, giddy sumbitch. Now, if I tell average Joe about this, they will think "this guy is good at computers." Yeah right!
As an artist, I hate the word "talent." Do these people have any idea how much time I've put in to get to where I am, and how much more to get to where I want to be? Talent? Fuck talent! Persistence! I like to think I am a "persistent hack," I pretty much fuck up until I get something presentable (in my sole opinion of course).
The great thing about this, or 2 great things, is that A) you learn the best way, by fucking up, and B) you discover that you can do anything reasonably well by just doing it A LOT. People are capable of anything, the only limit is your desire to do so.
I think educational systems limit people as well, everybody learns differently. As a physics major in college, I had no idea what the hell was going on, because it was all explained mathematically. If concept was introduced first, in detail, the math would have made much more sense! I think schools can push people in the wrong way, Fuck, lost my train of thought, too many distractions! haha, shit, I'll click "add blog" anyway, feel free to comment!
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johnny_lethargic:
Tita, your abs are bucket loads of tenacity 
johnny_lethargic:
Funny how I write a half-assed, unfinished blog about persistence. Life is ironic