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Time and Fear: Part Two

Time I’m currently working on a project that started of well in the first stage. I felt a high because I carved out a pretty damn good concept. When it got to execution things went awry. Doubts, frustrations, and too many second thoughts. It was quicksand. When time came to review, it needed to be reworked. Simply, I just needed more time. I recall back to some advice I was given: Just Ask. Ask for more time, for more money, more understanding, more creativity. Give yourself the opportunity to fail so you can reinvent, reconfigure, renew, and just about any verb that begins with re-. Steve Jobs took walks when he had to make big decisions. It’s a way to clear your mind so you can allow better things into your mind. You’ll have go back to the drawing board a few times, sure, but it’s worth it, isn’t it? We live in a world where “time is money”, time is this, time is that. I get it. Everybody wants quick fast and in a hurry. Quality can not possibly be achieved through this method. You only get dry, rushed, watered-down crap. Producing it doesn’t mean it’s good. You got to put in the work. You have to dig deep, spill your guts, form it, simplify it, and reach as many as you can. This is what quality takes. But all of this takes time. Serious time.

Time and Fear: Part One

Fear I’ve been a little busy…growing. My professional and personal life have grown parallel to each other for about a year now since I’ve been in New York. What a trip it has been. Growth is change. Change happens over a period of time and it’s difficult, hard, causes anxiety, depression, doubt, which comes from fear. Fear comes from thought and time. When you think about the last time your feelings were hurt or you were insulted, your fear tells you you must avoid that from happening again. Escaping or even avoiding moments of fear doesn’t conquer it, it increases it. You realize it when you begin to look inward, deeply. My fear is failure. But slowly over time I’ve embraced it. Hell, I wish I embraced it quicker but we’ve all been conditioned to fear failure. In school, work, and our relationships. As I grow, I see that failure is an opportunity to make better. To break away from the old and comfort and move into a new or different area of thinking at times enlightenment. I had to walk into it, “step up to it” as well (in reference to the Sagmeister project I assisted with). You have to be willing. This has changed my work.

Time, work, machine….

viafrank:

“The theory of machinery is that it saves time, but Stanford himself noted of such machinery that “if you could limit man’s wants it might be called ‘labor saving,’ but as there are no limits to his wants, the machinery really increases the power of production.” That is, the industrialized world wants more goods, not more time, and so the machinery doesn’t increase freedom and leisure, it increases production and consumption.”

— From Rebecca Solnit’s River of Shadows