alt Hacker NewsIf you haven’t had the pleasure of Los Angeles public-access television’s Let’s Paint TV…
Or, to save your eyes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Paint_TV
For more than 20 years, Mr. Let’s Paint TV (artist John Kilduff) has encouraged viewers to “EMBRACE FAILARE”—charitably put, to pass through the valley of incompetence as it’s the only path to the slopes of mastery. Just do the thing.
I couldn’t agree more with that impulse and TFA’s: the common trait that cuts across all the most impressive people I know—from artists to businesspeople to scientists to engineers to even leaders-of-organizations—is a cheerful unselfconsciousness, a humility, a willful simplicity—a willingness to put it out there while it’s raw and stupid and unformed, and hone it through practice with the people around them.
A taste:
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> “EMBRACE FAILARE”—charitably put, to pass through the valley of incompetence as it’s the only path to the slopes of mastery
Instructions unclear. Have pushed secrets to github. When will slope to mastery commence?
Looks like he is still doing his thing here
goddam, that's beautiful. thanks for sharing!
Fantastic, thanks for sharing! I hadn't heard of this before. Very entertaining video!
He should have co-hosted with Max Headroom.
That's super trippy but I like it.
Well, now I went down that rabbit hole. Thanks, I guess :-)
There is a book called Art & Fear which explores this in depth. A quick read and worth it for people that don’t consider themselves artists.
It has a great story (allegory) about a pottery class, which was shared here in the past. Six sentences. Worth a read:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097663