I have often asked this question of myself when faced with a new challenge. Where to begin? The answer is simpler than we think. Begin wherever you are. Just dive in. The process of growth towards success has no start as such. You just have to begin wherever you find yourself now. It’s like trying […]
Mastery and The four stages of competence
The Learning of a skill is complex but the Four Stages of Competence outlines the psychological stages the journey from incompetence to mastery. They go as follows: Unconscious incompetence. This is the initial stage where we are doing something wrong, but we don’t know we are doing it wrong. We lack the necessary awareness to […]
Stop measuring yourself, your life against a metric
One of the things that I noticed in my struggle with anxiety was the constant, but subtle process of self evaluation that goes on in the background. Am I talking enough? Talking too much? Is my appearance acceptable? Am I wealthy enough, confident enough, and much more. Almost always I would answer with a negative. […]
Some of my art experiments #2
Here are a few more efforts from my pencil or brush. These four paintings of the cherry I did together. The first is based upon a cherry tutorial by Will Kemp and for the template for the others. The Next is a monochrome version it painted to understand value. The next one is a more […]
The Courtauld Gallery Visit
With my new interest in art and becoming an artist I have looked at a lot of art online. However looking at art on screen doesn’t reveal any details our insights into how that artist worked. So I recently decided to start visiting art galleries in order to see the work up close and learn […]
Why have I moved away from writing
This is a sort of follow-up to my previous post. Blogging is Depressing. I explain further why I have stopped trying so hard with my writing. Learning how to be a blogger became too stressful for me. What I read was constantly telling me what I wasn’t good enough at it. It left me having […]