motivation
September 10th, 2005In the circus, of course, everyone knows the show must make money in order to continue, but it’s the circus, not the money, that provides the livelihood. I mean that they don’t keep the circus going in order to make money; they make money in order to keep the circus going. An artist might see it this way: there’s a difference between painting in order to make money and making money in order to paint. -DQ
It’s a funny shift in thinking, deciding to take only the courses you perceive to be useful and that interest you. Sure it should be like this all along? Listen everyone bitch and moan for having to go on a camp for a week to measure and draw old buildings. Because they have to. You don’t have to. You choose to do so, you like drawing.
It’s freeing to quit thinking about degrees and start thinking about learning as a personal process. Taking responsibility and stopping whining. It’s also scary as hell.