Gladwell

Time Isn’t Everything

Garth Beyer

I could blog everyday for 5 years and still not get anywhere. You could spend 10 years on artwork and never get a chance to showcase it in a gallery. Your friend can spend his 20s fixing cars, but never get a tip. Gladwell’s idea you must spend at least 10,000 hours on something before you become a professional is incomplete. It’s not really the time the matters. It’s the bravery, the risk, the new things you try during that time.

Turns out 10,000 hours is enough time to try as many options, take as many risks and show as much bravery as it takes to truly get noticed, recognized and respected for your effort.

Time isn’t everything. Grit is.

 

Stay Positive & Start Impressing Yourself With The Work You Do

Blink

Garth Beyer

Blink is an aberrantly exceptional book by Malcolm Gladwell, yes. But the action is something entirely significant on its own.

An artist notes, “on a good day blinking refreshes sight and brings clarity.” The act of blinking revitalizes focus and perception to the world, and I state this on no low-level.

If you were to walk around with your best efforts to refrain from blinking, you would experience every emotion on the right-wing of negativity. Alas, this is not necessary. In fact, for lack of a better term, I would consider us lucky that blinking is primarily involuntary.

It seems suggestive that in order to perceive, understand, inspirit and reanimate life, we must blink. What if we conceptualized blinking into our work and our art?

When we incorporate “blinking” into our efforts – whatever they may be – we are naturally prone to create more understandable products: alive, lit up, stimulated, lucid.

The only difference: this type of “blinking” is voluntary. Though, equally invaluable.

 

Stay Positive & Be Sure To Blink, And Blink Often

Garth E. Beyer