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Pitfalls of success
A lot is written about failure and coping with it, bouncing back and moving on but not much is written about dealing with success. Countless tennis players tumble at their match that follows a big victory and in other sports similar things can be seen showing success can be hard to deal with – why? [...]
Does photography change us?
“You know, actually photography is a very philosophical thing. It teaches you to see things.” – Nikola Borissov For a while I tried to pursue music and it look me a while before I realised as much as I liked it I really had no natural ability at it and perhaps it wasn’t the best [...]
Fear of completion
Finishing something is scary despite it being what we are working towards. When something is finished there is no more room to hide, there are no “in work” excuses for any shortcomings and we must face what we have produced straight on. It’s scary because there is a risk that for all our efforts we [...]
Big ideas
It’s great to think big and be ambitious letting our imagination and creativity run riot without restriction but when it comes to realising these, things can get difficult. Usually the best creative concepts are not easy, they are not something that’s been done before and won’t make ‘sense’ to do to many people when there [...]
Permission to fail
I have ideas and things I have wanted want to try, some more developed than others with all sorts of inspiration gathered together from various sources but have gone no further because I’ve been afraid to and for a long time I have had no idea why, I’d just switch to developing a different idea [...]
The risk of trying
To become accomplished at something takes hard work and practice, but issues of time and motivation aside, there is another problem: people only ever want to experience the finished result and an accomplished one at that. People may have passing intrigue into a scene that did not have made the grade in their favourite film [...]
