There are a lot of people out there who want to be your coach.
Who want to give you advice and tell you how you can do your job better.
But the hard truth about the reality of creativity is that there is no road map.
There are questions you should be asking when people give you advice.
Have they been where you are now…before?
Did they push through it?
Are they still creating…or have they given up all together?
Teaching is a very difficult job. It takes patience and understanding and this page in not intended in anyway to demean that.
That being said, a good teacher is very hard to come by.
If you go around making all of the changes that others ask you to make to your project, it won’t take very long before what you set out to make has become unrecognizable in comparison to what sits in front of you.
You have to be stubborn.
No question.
You also have to understand that it is very unlikely that you are always right.
And the more that you create, the more that you hone, the more that you fail forward from your work.
Keep creating.
Keep working.
Keep believing in yourself, even when it feels like you are alone in that belief.
Surround yourself with people that want you to succeed and understand that when you ask them for their input, they are being asked as a trusted advisor… not a creative partner.
There is a significant difference.
You have to be the one to do the work.
If that can’t be you, be careful not to be the bad teacher that limits the work of their pupils by inserting their own ideas without bearing any of the risk.
Find inspired assets. Not ass hats.