#karencheng

[elaines-visual-diary]

This week I’m reading Designing Type - Karen Cheng

What I learn from this, I will apply to the typography centric visuals I include in the next few days.

[kikidemid]

“This isn’t a story about dancing, though. It’s about having a dream and not knowing how to get there — but starting anyway.”

[yestap]

When someone ask you, "to become a master of an art, would you focus your training on quality or quantity?

Some might choose quality. Investing thought and time into a piece of art would produce the perfect piece as lots of effort has been put into it. Some might even say speeding through and half-assing a skill or an art will only produce nothing but a piece of shit. 

However, sorry to break your heart but QUANTITY TRUMPS QUALITY. Sorry batman, but many little robins might prove to be stronger when combined. 

Quantity should be a higher priority than quality, because it leads to higher quality. The shorter path to maximized quality is in maximized quantity and executing on the feedback after each finished product.

A young lady named Karen Cheng learned to dance in a year. She didn't spend hours deciding how to perfect her dance or study perfect dancers. She simply told herself to dance everyday and filmed her progress. 

So how can you master a skill? Give yourself a goal that you must meet everyday. If it's learning a tennis serve, serve 20 times a day..no more and no less. If you want to get those windmills, do 20 of them a day, no more and no less. Want to perfect photography? take 3 pictures a day....and so on. To become a master of something, you need to put in 10,000-hours into it says Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Outliers". 

So there you have it, instead of sitting on your ass and pondering what you should be doing to master your skill.....JUST DO IT, as NIKE would say. Choose quantity as your sidekick to make you the superman of your desired skill.

[forrestkoba]

You can send a resignation letter. Or you can do this.