Desire/Purpose

I got this feeling that I can do anything. Anyone can, literally.

It hit me while watching a random YouTube video  "How to recreate this Netflix style documentary intro." Somewhere in the middle of it I just realized: I can recreate this. I can do whatever level of editing I want.

The only thing I actually need is a reason to.

Not reason in some big way. Just the desire. The want to create something specific. And once that want is there, whatever the thing needs  your mind is already ready to go figure it out.

That's how my process works. The project comes first. Everything else comes because the project needed it.

And I think this is how any skill should be learned. Not just creative stuff  any skill.

The whole school system is basically the opposite of this, and that's probably why most of what we study doesn't stay with us. You sit in a class, someone gives you a syllabus, you study it, pass the exam, forget most of it in two months.

No one wanted to make anything. There was nothing pulling you.

The people who actually get really good at something  they got obsessed with a specific outcome before they ever formally studied anything. The learning was almost accidental. A side effect of chasing the thing they wanted.

There's also this thing with money.

There are two ways this can go. You learn a skill to earn money. Or you want to create something, and you get so good at it, that the money comes to you as an effect of that.

Those are two completely different things.

And here's what most people don't see  you don't even have to figure out the money part. The world is already smart enough to turn anything good into something that makes money. Brands, platforms, audiences, agencies  all of it already exists and it's looking for people who are genuinely exceptional.

You just have to be that. The rest figures itself out.

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The scary thing about learning for money is it also caps your ceiling. You stop when you're good enough to get paid.

But if the pull is the work itself, "good enough" isn't even a concept you think in.

You keep going because the work demands it.