Blogging Revival: One of the 8 Keys to Success
Exploding Tulip is revived once more.
Hello everyone,
I have been immersed in my academic pursuits for the last couple months, and I felt like posting again. I came across a very insightful article on The 8 Keys to Success from David Lyman.
"David Lyman is an artist, entrepreneur, adventurer and workshop leader. He founded The Maine Photographic Workshops in 1973, then founded Rockport College in 1996—a conservatory based on the intuitive artist’s path. In a career that spans 50 years, he has sailed oceans (solo); climbed mountains, skied down glaciers, been a radio personality, publisher, magazine writer, photographer, producer and filmmaker, and college president."
I can see myself taking a similarly entrepreneurial approach to education at some point in my life...but that's for a different blog post. :)
Back to the article, one of the points spoke to me in particular: 4. Persistence.
Lyman writes:
It will take 10 years before you can use the craft to hear what your inner artist has to say. I have asked hundreds of accomplished photographers, writers, filmmakers, painters and musicians how long it took before they felt they were speaking from a source within. Ten years has been their unanimous answer.
If it takes ten years, then how to spend the time wisely? It will take, in my estimation, 2 years to acquire 70% of the craft you will need to work in your medium. It will take another 8 years to acquire the next 20% of your craft. At 90%, you will have mastered your craft, but there is that 10% that will take a lifetime to acquire. In the meantime, while working to master your craft (the technical and methods of working in a medium) you will also be learning and acquiring a personal vision, your ability to see, to observe, to create and discover things. This is difficult at first, but the older you get the wiser and more aware, the more perceptive you become. Craft and vision are your tools for inner exploration.
As I sat in my composition professor's office for the first time, I realized that I was just about to start this ten year journey. All the struggling up until that moment had just been to get me into the room. Now the real work begins.
To be even more realistic, my two years of acquiring 70% of my craft might officially begin in the fall. While all I am doing now is nurturing my development, I spend only a precious fraction of my time applying my knowledge and learning my craft. That is true for now. Not forever. Right now, I'm pouring cement. Laying a foundation.
Hope you enjoyed my return to blogging. Comments, yeah?
m
Hello everyone,
I have been immersed in my academic pursuits for the last couple months, and I felt like posting again. I came across a very insightful article on The 8 Keys to Success from David Lyman.
"David Lyman is an artist, entrepreneur, adventurer and workshop leader. He founded The Maine Photographic Workshops in 1973, then founded Rockport College in 1996—a conservatory based on the intuitive artist’s path. In a career that spans 50 years, he has sailed oceans (solo); climbed mountains, skied down glaciers, been a radio personality, publisher, magazine writer, photographer, producer and filmmaker, and college president."
I can see myself taking a similarly entrepreneurial approach to education at some point in my life...but that's for a different blog post. :)
Back to the article, one of the points spoke to me in particular: 4. Persistence.
Lyman writes:
It will take 10 years before you can use the craft to hear what your inner artist has to say. I have asked hundreds of accomplished photographers, writers, filmmakers, painters and musicians how long it took before they felt they were speaking from a source within. Ten years has been their unanimous answer.
If it takes ten years, then how to spend the time wisely? It will take, in my estimation, 2 years to acquire 70% of the craft you will need to work in your medium. It will take another 8 years to acquire the next 20% of your craft. At 90%, you will have mastered your craft, but there is that 10% that will take a lifetime to acquire. In the meantime, while working to master your craft (the technical and methods of working in a medium) you will also be learning and acquiring a personal vision, your ability to see, to observe, to create and discover things. This is difficult at first, but the older you get the wiser and more aware, the more perceptive you become. Craft and vision are your tools for inner exploration.
As I sat in my composition professor's office for the first time, I realized that I was just about to start this ten year journey. All the struggling up until that moment had just been to get me into the room. Now the real work begins.
To be even more realistic, my two years of acquiring 70% of my craft might officially begin in the fall. While all I am doing now is nurturing my development, I spend only a precious fraction of my time applying my knowledge and learning my craft. That is true for now. Not forever. Right now, I'm pouring cement. Laying a foundation.
Hope you enjoyed my return to blogging. Comments, yeah?
m
posted by meg @ 5:20 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
David Lyman here . . .
It is heart warming to read of your beginning and that something I have written may have made a differnce . . . that's why we share life's discoveries . . . to help, to make a differnce . . . good luck with your journey.
Rockport, Maine
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