Been a gamer and a hobbyist since I was a wee lad. Can't remember a time in my life when it hasn't been present one way or another.
Motivation
Posted by Jeff Hiatt on Monday, November 16, 2009
Here I am this morning getting ready for work. Before I had a job that I had to go to every day I found that it was hard to go into the studio and get started every morning.
A few years back there was this movie with Tom Selleck in it call Mr. Baseball. It is the story of an aging player that is traded to a Japanese Baseball team. He has lost his swing. Throughout a good portion of the movie his manager (played by the great Ken Takakura) seems to have him doing everything but hitting Baseballs.
Finally his manager is making him hit golf balls with a baseball bat at a driving range. After a bit of him hitting the crap out of these Jack (Tom Sellecks Character) says in a very definite tone that he wants to hit baseballs. His manager tells him that is what he wanted to hear all along.
My telling of this took a couple of second but imagine this as a 15-20 minute montage in a movie and you get the idea.
Needless to say there are other saying that go with this sort of issue "Familiarity breeds contempt", "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" ad nausium.
I find that some times there is too much and I need a break or I getting going on monotonous projects that never seem to end and that will burn me out.
So what the hell is the point that I am trying to get at here? I think that the point is: when I have a definite amount of time do work on something, I find that it is easier to work on as opposed to trying to get my self motivated to get started on something when I have all of the time in the world. I would almost go so far as to say that I am more productive when there is a time limit. The easiest way to put this is that the fact that I can paint makes me long for it. So when it is time to paint I have been looking forward to it as opposed to being something that had to be done.
A few years back there was this movie with Tom Selleck in it call Mr. Baseball. It is the story of an aging player that is traded to a Japanese Baseball team. He has lost his swing. Throughout a good portion of the movie his manager (played by the great Ken Takakura) seems to have him doing everything but hitting Baseballs.
Finally his manager is making him hit golf balls with a baseball bat at a driving range. After a bit of him hitting the crap out of these Jack (Tom Sellecks Character) says in a very definite tone that he wants to hit baseballs. His manager tells him that is what he wanted to hear all along.
My telling of this took a couple of second but imagine this as a 15-20 minute montage in a movie and you get the idea.
Needless to say there are other saying that go with this sort of issue "Familiarity breeds contempt", "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" ad nausium.
I find that some times there is too much and I need a break or I getting going on monotonous projects that never seem to end and that will burn me out.
So what the hell is the point that I am trying to get at here? I think that the point is: when I have a definite amount of time do work on something, I find that it is easier to work on as opposed to trying to get my self motivated to get started on something when I have all of the time in the world. I would almost go so far as to say that I am more productive when there is a time limit. The easiest way to put this is that the fact that I can paint makes me long for it. So when it is time to paint I have been looking forward to it as opposed to being something that had to be done.