Sometimes, when I watch a really good piece of content, I often lack the words to express how I feel. I'll usually simply like, and leave, never letting the creator know the value of their content. As a creator myself, I know it isn't fair. I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that your growth, both as a teacher and filmmaker is both impressive and inspiring. You're putting in the work and it shows. Thank you.
Indeed some people still confuse creativity with the "a-ha moment". Creativity IS a system and any systems must be followed by reviews and metrics which demands consistency. There is a study where researches checked how much works the most artists produced along with their careers. They found out that most iconic artists such as Mozart or Picasso had thousands of materials making a small fraction of their works stand out. In the end, it is not about your ego is about probabilities: as much you produce you practice you hit the bullseye.
also the mileage for artistic fields based on skill, like drawing for example, as you draw more, you improve, and your art starts to be better technically (ㆁωㆁ)
I am surely a lazy creative, but I think for my personal experience the cause of my laziness is due insecurity rather than neglecting routines and habits (i love them) to be creative. Cause when you say you feel happy seeing you're finished work, in my part that doesn't ever happen I tend to concentrate more on the flaws than what is good. I perfectly know this mindset is bad and I'm actually working on it . (English isn't my first language)
I can relate sorta, but thanks to my toxic, angry, and abusive home enviroment I don't really create that much anymore because any time my family talks to me all of my happiness is drained.
"Too many ideas and too little action" meeee 😭 I'm just so overwhelmed by all my passions that I never do anything. I KNOW I need to implement a routine, but it's so hard. I do feel like you can only create or be creative when you feel like it and I've apparently somehow, weirdly, always felt that it has to be one way or the other. Spontaneous creating vs. routinely creating. I don't why it took me this video to realize you can have both???? Like one thing doesn't take away from the other????? Lmao I feel dumb. But thank you.
Great video, and quite important topic! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about trying to balance creating and consuming. The War of Art is also a really good book about being a creative person and fighting our fears.
During the pandemic, I began to write as a coping mechanism. Before that, I never got to finish any project, but last year I wrote two books and many other stories. Having to write everyday to keep my sanity, I finally learned how to write even when I don't feel "inspired". Now that I'm working again, I'm trying to write everyday, even if it's just a page or two. Writing for me is an exercise, a constant practice of perseverance and patience.
As an aspiring writer, let me say that you motivate, inspire, and relax me more than anyone else on CZcams. Every time I watch one of your videos I am reinvigorated to keep working on my stories and to keep reading. Thank you.
This video installment is the best thing I have seen since sliced bread. "Resistance," truly, is the the worst enemy of the writer or artist. You inspired me today, Robin.
Man, I didn't look at your channel for a while and now all of a sudden you have 68,2 K subscribers! That's really inspirational. Thanks for the video, it helped (:
I used to be a typical flaneur (or, well, flaneuse) but I've been having a hard time dedicating myself to those stolen moments lately, mostly because of my need to be prolific. There is this resistance in me that's afraid of giving myself too much space to wonder (and wander), as I'm afraid I'll stop working altogether. I guess that might be a common fear among certain artists - that once we stop working for a day or a week, our talent / ideas / inspiration will leave and never come back.
Hello!!! I have some thought about the "lazy artist" because I guess I am one myself... but I haven't always been one. During my childhood and teen years, I was an incredibly prolific writer, i wrote all the time. I even wrote my first (very bad) novel when i was fourteen. As an adult I struggle to write and I think it has to do with a cycle of perfectionism and guilt. We've grown up, we know what's good quality and what isn't. So when we are writing, we can already tell something is bad, and perfectionism shows up, we feel bad, we get blocked and we stop writing. The next day, we realize we haven't written more than a page. "But how?" We ask ourselves. "I use to write pages and pages non stop when I was just fifteen! What is happening to me? I should be writing more..." and thus begins the incapacitating guilt that paralyzes us. The act of writing (which use to be a joyous moment) becomes this existential nightmare of doubts, anxiety and guilt. This didn't happen when we were younger because we didn't have a concept of "good" or "bad" writing. For us, it was just writing and having fun. I remember being so proud of things that, nowadays I re-read and i think "offf... yeah, this was definitely written by a fourteen year old." But I think there was value on that innocent, playful mentality. I think the solution (at least what I have been implementing) is yes, as you said, set up a system to write everyday, or as much as you can. But I think you should also tackle writing with the mentality of a child. A child isn't thinking about quality. That's precisely why a child can write so prolifically. You should treat writing as a game, as in: you should be playing and having fun. Put an odd word somewhere. The scene you are tackling is boring? Okay, write another scene, or make this one fun. Play with your characters. Write in your comfort zone. Write as "badly" as you want and need. You can always go back and edit, or write those more difficult scenes later. I know everyone will tell you you should "get out of you comfort zone" and yadah yadah, and that's great advice... for people who aren't already struggling just to create /inside/ the comfort zone. If you are stuck up in that cycle of perfectionism and guilt, going out of the CZ would be disastrous. Your creativity would be incapacitated by the chorus of inner critics. I've rambled away. My point is: if you are a "lazy writer" consider what is the reason for your laziness. It might be that you don't find joy in writing anymore, in which case, give yourself a break. Make writing joyful again.
I may be wrong, but since you've started using edited thumbnails (with pictures of other people), my clicking don't become so instant. I still click on it cause i know im in for a treat. (i also have done a video-project before, and it being posted by someone else, with a BLACK screen as thumbnail as oppose to my friend's video with people as clickbait, had less views. Despite it being equally interesting.) People's faces (your face) = stronger hook?
@@adheliaputri4794 I'm currently planning a vlog series documenting my University experience. That might be a nice change. I've realized that as the production value went up, I felt less and less like myself and videos felt like work. So thanks guys. Invaluable feedback.
@@RCWaldun I actually like the "cinematics" and the slowmo shots. The edited thumbnails are the reason why I clicked and found this channel (surtout celle de Camus, l'un de mes écrivains favoris)
U know, society always tries to conform to models of process which usually is stable and u need to know that it's ok to not conform. As one nice fella once said " to be or not to be, that is the question".
I feel like he is using that wording because he knows many of his subs are young, and he is also young, so that is the perspective he can offer. I doubt it is more deep than that
Sometimes I'm afraid, that I'll never be a wholesome author, because my life wasn't a Stephen King Novel worthy of life. I had my upside downs, abusive parents, toxic friendships but I never ever really had something from the good, only just worthless little fragments of happiness. God, that sounds so depressing but I'm actually good - it's just, although my life wasn't "boring" persé but it lacked excitement entirely. Do you have any opinion on this? If a person thinks his life experiences weren't exciting enough to write a book down?
I don't think choosing "L'Academie" as your book's title is great at all. Why not stick with casual English titles? I'd understand if you're a foreigner of course, but you're not. I'm not a hater or anything, in fact, I'm a big fan of your videos; it's just that it's "cringey" to hear the title every time. I hope picking "L'Academie" has a good purpose because it would really be a massive blow out if there isn't. Great video btw.
I'm from Latin America. In my country isn't rare to have school names in foreign languages. There are schools (usually elite schools) with english, french, dutch names etc. I don't find it cringey at all. I think that from what we know about the novel the name suits it very well. Maybe you shouldn't be so closed minded.
@@xSummeraain I'm from the Philippines and also have schools named from foreign languages, commonly, Spanish and Latin. And yeah, I don't find them "cringey" at all, but that's because we're influenced by those that invaded us before. And so, if "L'Academie" has it's purpose or something(the same as the purpose of naming my country's schools after the languages we're influenced with), then I'd put my heads down and proclaim myself an idiot; not until the release of the book tells us whether there is or isn't though.
@@shizotypical Yeah, I know. It's just that I find it inappropriate in a sense that I too don't know why. I mean, imagine this'll be a great book, and other countries would translate the entirety of it or so; wouldn't it be weird to have it translated, and the title, "L'Academie", would be some sort of a barricade for the whole translation of it? Albert Camus's books were being translated from French to English the same with the title. Now what if "L'Academie" will be translated from English to Spanish? Will the title go from that to "El Academia"? I don't know, but it's weird for me.
"Art without living is an empty shell, and living without art is a tragedy." God damn that's woke.
Yeah I instantly hit like on the video after that.
Sometimes, when I watch a really good piece of content, I often lack the words to express how I feel. I'll usually simply like, and leave, never letting the creator know the value of their content.
As a creator myself, I know it isn't fair.
I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that your growth, both as a teacher and filmmaker is both impressive and inspiring.
You're putting in the work and it shows. Thank you.
Indeed some people still confuse creativity with the "a-ha moment". Creativity IS a system and any systems must be followed by reviews and metrics which demands consistency. There is a study where researches checked how much works the most artists produced along with their careers. They found out that most iconic artists such as Mozart or Picasso had thousands of materials making a small fraction of their works stand out. In the end, it is not about your ego is about probabilities: as much you produce you practice you hit the bullseye.
Where’s Waldo
also the mileage for artistic fields based on skill, like drawing for example, as you draw more, you improve, and your art starts to be better technically (ㆁωㆁ)
Research source?
@@user-tn4ls5hh2f I will find out for you. Sorry, late reply. I read an article in the pat pointing the research. I will search it back.
@@chrisedouard2473 I will find out for you. Sorry, late reply. I read an article in the pat pointing the research. I will search it back.
I am surely a lazy creative, but I think for my personal experience the cause of my laziness is due insecurity rather than neglecting routines and habits (i love them) to be creative. Cause when you say you feel happy seeing you're finished work, in my part that doesn't ever happen I tend to concentrate more on the flaws than what is good. I perfectly know this mindset is bad and I'm actually working on it . (English isn't my first language)
Can relate strongly.
I can relate sorta, but thanks to my toxic, angry, and abusive home enviroment I don't really create that much anymore because any time my family talks to me all of my happiness is drained.
"Too many ideas and too little action" meeee 😭 I'm just so overwhelmed by all my passions that I never do anything. I KNOW I need to implement a routine, but it's so hard.
I do feel like you can only create or be creative when you feel like it and I've apparently somehow, weirdly, always felt that it has to be one way or the other. Spontaneous creating vs. routinely creating. I don't why it took me this video to realize you can have both???? Like one thing doesn't take away from the other????? Lmao I feel dumb. But thank you.
'When motivation lets you down - Discipline has your back'
Your videos keep getting better ❤️
this was published on my birthday-best present to wake up to!
Love the cover. I'm excitedly anticipating reviewing l'Académie with you after its release! Keep up all the hard work.
I just landed in Los Angeles. Just started setting aside my books on a shelf, and now I'm ready to get my days going.
Was literally just pondering these ideas...nice vid, dude
Man you gotta check out William H. Gass's Finding A Form essay, every writer should read it.
Great video, and quite important topic! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about trying to balance creating and consuming. The War of Art is also a really good book about being a creative person and fighting our fears.
During the pandemic, I began to write as a coping mechanism. Before that, I never got to finish any project, but last year I wrote two books and many other stories. Having to write everyday to keep my sanity, I finally learned how to write even when I don't feel "inspired". Now that I'm working again, I'm trying to write everyday, even if it's just a page or two. Writing for me is an exercise, a constant practice of perseverance and patience.
As an aspiring writer, let me say that you motivate, inspire, and relax me more than anyone else on CZcams. Every time I watch one of your videos I am reinvigorated to keep working on my stories and to keep reading.
Thank you.
Thank you
I’m getting in to philosophy can you make a video in beginner philosophy books thanks for the videos
Very motivating
Love the video! Amazing content as always! Keep doing what you do, you’re definitely my favorite channel on youtube!
This video installment is the best thing I have seen since sliced bread. "Resistance," truly, is the the worst enemy of the writer or artist. You inspired me today, Robin.
Your videos have helped me a lotttt!! Thank you for posting them!
Excellent video as always! You are an inspiration
Love your channel - really needed this advice! thank you
Man, I didn't look at your channel for a while and now all of a sudden you have 68,2 K subscribers! That's really inspirational. Thanks for the video, it helped (:
❤❤❤
I struggle with this every day.
Thank you for this video, I truly needed it.
Admiration from India 🙂
Thank you for this honestly
I love how you started to have more shots instead of just you talking! great video
I am amazed at your productivity!
I used to be a typical flaneur (or, well, flaneuse) but I've been having a hard time dedicating myself to those stolen moments lately, mostly because of my need to be prolific. There is this resistance in me that's afraid of giving myself too much space to wonder (and wander), as I'm afraid I'll stop working altogether. I guess that might be a common fear among certain artists - that once we stop working for a day or a week, our talent / ideas / inspiration will leave and never come back.
yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo new videooooo
i'm a type 2, thank you so much for helping all of us work toward finding balance.
Hello!!! I have some thought about the "lazy artist" because I guess I am one myself... but I haven't always been one.
During my childhood and teen years, I was an incredibly prolific writer, i wrote all the time. I even wrote my first (very bad) novel when i was fourteen.
As an adult I struggle to write and I think it has to do with a cycle of perfectionism and guilt. We've grown up, we know what's good quality and what isn't. So when we are writing, we can already tell something is bad, and perfectionism shows up, we feel bad, we get blocked and we stop writing. The next day, we realize we haven't written more than a page. "But how?" We ask ourselves. "I use to write pages and pages non stop when I was just fifteen! What is happening to me? I should be writing more..." and thus begins the incapacitating guilt that paralyzes us. The act of writing (which use to be a joyous moment) becomes this existential nightmare of doubts, anxiety and guilt.
This didn't happen when we were younger because we didn't have a concept of "good" or "bad" writing. For us, it was just writing and having fun. I remember being so proud of things that, nowadays I re-read and i think "offf... yeah, this was definitely written by a fourteen year old." But I think there was value on that innocent, playful mentality.
I think the solution (at least what I have been implementing) is yes, as you said, set up a system to write everyday, or as much as you can. But I think you should also tackle writing with the mentality of a child. A child isn't thinking about quality. That's precisely why a child can write so prolifically. You should treat writing as a game, as in: you should be playing and having fun. Put an odd word somewhere. The scene you are tackling is boring? Okay, write another scene, or make this one fun. Play with your characters. Write in your comfort zone. Write as "badly" as you want and need. You can always go back and edit, or write those more difficult scenes later.
I know everyone will tell you you should "get out of you comfort zone" and yadah yadah, and that's great advice... for people who aren't already struggling just to create /inside/ the comfort zone. If you are stuck up in that cycle of perfectionism and guilt, going out of the CZ would be disastrous. Your creativity would be incapacitated by the chorus of inner critics.
I've rambled away. My point is: if you are a "lazy writer" consider what is the reason for your laziness. It might be that you don't find joy in writing anymore, in which case, give yourself a break. Make writing joyful again.
Love your content!
You hit the nail on the head with Type 1.
I really admire your focus. Congats on your book! Also, your videos are getting better. Do you edit your own videos?
Dude can you switch back to your old video format? They're much more natural and relaxed imo but this new format is great too!
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks :)
I may be wrong, but since you've started using edited thumbnails (with pictures of other people), my clicking don't become so instant. I still click on it cause i know im in for a treat. (i also have done a video-project before, and it being posted by someone else, with a BLACK screen as thumbnail as oppose to my friend's video with people as clickbait, had less views. Despite it being equally interesting.) People's faces (your face) = stronger hook?
@@adheliaputri4794 I'm currently planning a vlog series documenting my University experience. That might be a nice change. I've realized that as the production value went up, I felt less and less like myself and videos felt like work. So thanks guys. Invaluable feedback.
@@RCWaldun I actually like the "cinematics" and the slowmo shots.
The edited thumbnails are the reason why I clicked and found this channel (surtout celle de Camus, l'un de mes écrivains favoris)
"Don't constrain my art with boundaries. with rules and with systems and routines." Guilty 😭😂
Can you please make a video on building a great vocabulary to understand complex books?
damn
U know, society always tries to conform to models of process which usually is stable and u need to know that it's ok to not conform. As one nice fella once said " to be or not to be, that is the question".
500 words a day is an excellent goal. I did 2000 for Nanowrimo, which was good discipline, but over a longer time frame I think 500 is much better.
What you say reminds me to a poem line of Pablo Neruda that says:
I wrote and wrote just for not to die.
I hope you have read something of him.
I agree with everything but, i feel weird with the "young artist" i mean, age is just a number, creativity is in all of us, not only young people...
I feel like he is using that wording because he knows many of his subs are young, and he is also young, so that is the perspective he can offer. I doubt it is more deep than that
Young could also mean "unexperienced". If a 60 year old starts painting for the first time that makes them a young artist to me.
Yes, for sure, thanks for the different perspectives!
I love how everyone in this community is so nice and understanding 🥺🥰
Sometimes I'm afraid, that I'll never be a wholesome author, because my life wasn't a Stephen King Novel worthy of life. I had my upside downs, abusive parents, toxic friendships but I never ever really had something from the good, only just worthless little fragments of happiness. God, that sounds so depressing but I'm actually good - it's just, although my life wasn't "boring" persé but it lacked excitement entirely.
Do you have any opinion on this? If a person thinks his life experiences weren't exciting enough to write a book down?
Why are my favourite authors alcoholics? :-(
My boyfriend hates you because I'm crushing on you dude. As a literature major, I finally found my soul mate. So much love 🇩🇿 ♥️
I don't think choosing "L'Academie" as your book's title is great at all. Why not stick with casual English titles? I'd understand if you're a foreigner of course, but you're not. I'm not a hater or anything, in fact, I'm a big fan of your videos; it's just that it's "cringey" to hear the title every time. I hope picking "L'Academie" has a good purpose because it would really be a massive blow out if there isn't. Great video btw.
Maybe he wanted to do something different and out of the box?:) we'll know when we read the book maybe it has a meaning to it.
I'm from Latin America. In my country isn't rare to have school names in foreign languages. There are schools (usually elite schools) with english, french, dutch names etc. I don't find it cringey at all. I think that from what we know about the novel the name suits it very well. Maybe you shouldn't be so closed minded.
Eh, cringe culture is dead, let the author do what he wants. In the end we only learn from our own experience
@@xSummeraain I'm from the Philippines and also have schools named from foreign languages, commonly, Spanish and Latin. And yeah, I don't find them "cringey" at all, but that's because we're influenced by those that invaded us before. And so, if "L'Academie" has it's purpose or something(the same as the purpose of naming my country's schools after the languages we're influenced with), then I'd put my heads down and proclaim myself an idiot; not until the release of the book tells us whether there is or isn't though.
@@shizotypical Yeah, I know. It's just that I find it inappropriate in a sense that I too don't know why. I mean, imagine this'll be a great book, and other countries would translate the entirety of it or so; wouldn't it be weird to have it translated, and the title, "L'Academie", would be some sort of a barricade for the whole translation of it? Albert Camus's books were being translated from French to English the same with the title. Now what if "L'Academie" will be translated from English to Spanish? Will the title go from that to "El Academia"? I don't know, but it's weird for me.