Random reminder for no reason; you don't have to be good at your hobbies to do them, its perfectly fine to do them because you like doing them without having talent or whatever.
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@CarstenBoll One of my favourite quotes is from G.K. Chesterton: "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."
@bodhipaksa @CarstenBoll When did he say that? No, actually, where, I meant to ask.
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@bodhipaksa @CarstenBoll When did he say that? No, actually, where, I meant to ask.
@wing_of_eternity @CarstenBoll It's in Chapter XIV of "What's Wrong With The World."
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@wing_of_eternity @CarstenBoll It's in Chapter XIV of "What's Wrong With The World."
@bodhipaksa @CarstenBoll Ah, from FOLLY AND FEMALE EDUCATION. Found the book on project gutenberg.
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Random reminder for no reason; you don't have to be good at your hobbies to do them, its perfectly fine to do them because you like doing them without having talent or whatever. You're also allowed to stop doing them whenever you don't feel like doing them anymore.
They're just things we do to experience joy and broaden our horizon.
@CarstenBoll thank you
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Random reminder for no reason; you don't have to be good at your hobbies to do them, its perfectly fine to do them because you like doing them without having talent or whatever. You're also allowed to stop doing them whenever you don't feel like doing them anymore.
They're just things we do to experience joy and broaden our horizon.
@CarstenBoll I was at a dance class and someone kept apologizing to the instructor about doing it wrong and I really, really wanted to jump in and say something along these lines, but never found a great time.
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@CarstenBoll I was at a dance class and someone kept apologizing to the instructor about doing it wrong and I really, really wanted to jump in and say something along these lines, but never found a great time.
@nirak I feel this because I am almost always too self-conscious to enjoy dancing
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Random reminder for no reason; you don't have to be good at your hobbies to do them, its perfectly fine to do them because you like doing them without having talent or whatever. You're also allowed to stop doing them whenever you don't feel like doing them anymore.
They're just things we do to experience joy and broaden our horizon.
& also, doing them is (irritatingly) a prerequisite for getting good at them.
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@CarstenBoll And amateur comes from the French 'one who loves' and has its roots in the Latin amator meaning 'lover'.
@psneeze @CarstenBoll Now you've reminded me of one of my favourite phrases. A 'glad amatør'. Directly translated from Danish: 'a happy amateur'. I use the literal translation in English too, because it's not a dilettante or dabbler, but more positive. Just someone happily doing something they are not expert at, in a situation where that is fine and enjoyable.
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@psneeze @CarstenBoll Now you've reminded me of one of my favourite phrases. A 'glad amatør'. Directly translated from Danish: 'a happy amateur'. I use the literal translation in English too, because it's not a dilettante or dabbler, but more positive. Just someone happily doing something they are not expert at, in a situation where that is fine and enjoyable.
@CiaraNi @CarstenBoll I love that. Love it.
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@CarstenBoll Also a hobby doesn’t have to have a point. Just because is good enough. A hobby isn’t a waste of time.
@yon @CarstenBoll and my posts
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Random reminder for no reason; you don't have to be good at your hobbies to do them, its perfectly fine to do them because you like doing them without having talent or whatever. You're also allowed to stop doing them whenever you don't feel like doing them anymore.
They're just things we do to experience joy and broaden our horizon.
@CarstenBoll You don't need the best equipment or tools either to get started.
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Random reminder for no reason; you don't have to be good at your hobbies to do them, its perfectly fine to do them because you like doing them without having talent or whatever. You're also allowed to stop doing them whenever you don't feel like doing them anymore.
They're just things we do to experience joy and broaden our horizon.
@CarstenBoll I'm a ham radio opperator. I'll never ever never ever never stopp running my pie hole on the radio. Its a great hobby.
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Random reminder for no reason; you don't have to be good at your hobbies to do them, its perfectly fine to do them because you like doing them without having talent or whatever. You're also allowed to stop doing them whenever you don't feel like doing them anymore.
They're just things we do to experience joy and broaden our horizon.
@CarstenBoll OMG yes! This. I used to teach art to kids - not professionally - I called them "creative classes" and as one kid's mom was leaving, she said, "oh great now he wants to be an artist when he grows up." 0_0 - Erm. No. Now he has a way to express himself, whether it's well done or not, for his entire life.
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@CarstenBoll OMG yes! This. I used to teach art to kids - not professionally - I called them "creative classes" and as one kid's mom was leaving, she said, "oh great now he wants to be an artist when he grows up." 0_0 - Erm. No. Now he has a way to express himself, whether it's well done or not, for his entire life.
@nomdeb @CarstenBoll Maybe the kid does want to be an artist. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe he will change his mind about what he wants to be a dozen times before he turns 20.
But he does have a way to express himself, to explore the world, to amuse himself. He may have considered at least one option for a career, and if he rejects it he's one step closer to figuring out what he really wants and is good at.
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@reiayanami @CarstenBoll Every artist has a stash of things that didn't work. Part of becoming an artist, if that is your goal, is developing the taste to assess your own work.
So keep staring!
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And it doesn't have to have a 'financial value' attached to it.
Just do it for the joy of doing it.@OohOkayKay @CarstenBoll What do psychologists charge?
I'm not saying art will treat mental illness; it won't. But if art helps the ordinary feelings of frustration and being down in the dumps that everyone faces occasionally, it can have financial as well as non-financial value.
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@OohOkayKay @CarstenBoll What do psychologists charge?
I'm not saying art will treat mental illness; it won't. But if art helps the ordinary feelings of frustration and being down in the dumps that everyone faces occasionally, it can have financial as well as non-financial value.
@Karen5Lund @CarstenBoll
What 'I' meant was ...
art work doesn't have have a price attached to it as a commodity. It can just be art you enjoy creating and owning. -
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What 'I' meant was ...
art work doesn't have have a price attached to it as a commodity. It can just be art you enjoy creating and owning.@OohOkayKay @CarstenBoll I get that, and I'm not really saying the resulting work had a value. I was saying that the process of doing any kind of art may have a quantifiable (approximate) value for the benefit it provides.
Last year I wrote an article that required a 3+ mile walk, repeated three times, which seemed to result in my losing five pounds over two months, with no other action taken regarding diet or exercise. That's a quantifiable health benefit.
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@OohOkayKay @CarstenBoll I get that, and I'm not really saying the resulting work had a value. I was saying that the process of doing any kind of art may have a quantifiable (approximate) value for the benefit it provides.
Last year I wrote an article that required a 3+ mile walk, repeated three times, which seemed to result in my losing five pounds over two months, with no other action taken regarding diet or exercise. That's a quantifiable health benefit.
@Karen5Lund @CarstenBoll
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