Anime lesson: develop your own style

Todays lesson I learned from the new anime New Game!! That lesson is: in art, it is good to mimic existing styles, but generating your own personal and unique style is also important.

New job skill: you

One standard piece of advice is to learn job skills to get a job. Some natural tendencies don’t seem to translate to traditional job skills, and mentors may push these tendencies aside.

I think people should take time to explore their natural tendencies, and see what they can produce after nurturing for awhile.

As an example, let’s say I fancy myself an idea person. Typically, you might think of this as a cop-out, but there can be merit in it. If you take ideas and flesh them put into a strong presentation with a polished sales pitch, it is possible to sell royalties on it.

While this advice may come late for some people, you can go ahead and start nurturing now. If you enjoying, it is good for the soul. If it can pay the bills, bully for you!

Showing off finished work

One issue I have is that I have a ton of little projects and ideas that I start working on and never finish.

An idea I had regarding finishing these things is to show off a finished result to people. That would give a sense of accomplishment and pride, and that would also give me a goal to work toward rather than letting the project lapse.

For me, personally, I would not prefer a hard deadline for such things, as I would feel like it would be more like work than amusement, which would take the fun out of it.

Aphorism on living life well

I have sampled stories from across the known universe and back, yet neglected the story of my own life. You have a deadline to finish your story. Best get to writing it.