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May 13 • Home Room - no spitballs
I QUIT!
I quit art in 1994 because my art professor told me I would never be a good artist.
Her name was Ms. Grimes.
She sucked as a teacher 😆 and has become the motivation for me to teach.
I don’t want anyone giving out the shit she gave me.
She believed there was only ONE traditional way to become a “real artist.”
And I was:
Too structured.
Too analytical.
Too methodical.
Too organized.
So I believed her.
I went corporate instead.
I worked at Texas Instruments designing systems and organizing art files in 27 languages.
I worked at printing companies.
And for YEARS I told myself:
“I’m not creative.”
So I kept trying creative hobbies:
cross stitch
knitting
doodling
…but always following someone else’s pattern because every time I tried creating my OWN thing…
It was dumpster worthy.
Then I finally got the balls to take an oil painting class.
It was great but still a TON of missing pieces.
So I built SYSTEMS.
And suddenly…
painting became possible.
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💎 The thing I thought disqualified me from creativity
💎 became the thing that made me successful at it.
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What’s YOUR superpower?
What are you unusually good at?
And how did you become good at it?
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I QUIT!
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