[Calm guitar music in background]: So, you woke up today and realized something.
You're a bad artist, or a bad poet, or a bad writer, or a bad carpenter, or a bad actor,
or a bad singer, or a bad dancer, or a bad painter.
You love what you do but you're not very good at doing it.
A lot of people think that you need to be good or great at what you do in order to count.
They think that your art is somehow worthless unless it's up to a certain standard.
Some people feel like they will never achieve that standard, and so they give up on their
art.
Or they experience constant frustration and are really hard on themselves, which ends
up blocking their creativity.
The solution to being a bad artist is to just be a bad artist.
You're not necessarily a great, and maybe you're not even particularly good at what
you do, but you're doing it because you love it and because you want to keep doing it.
If you feel like you're not very good at what you love, my recommendation to you would be
to claim the title of "Bad Artist".
For example, I'm a Bad Poet.
I'm objectively not very good at writing poetry.
I adore writing poetry, I've been doing it since I was twelve.
It's something that brings me a lot of joy and fulfillment and satisfaction and many
other positive, wonderful things.
It's one of my main tools of expression.
But from a technical point of view, I'm not very good at it.
My poems are not very good by literary standards.
My poems are excellent because they are unique to me, but if looked at from a technical point
of view, they kind of suck [laughs].
I'm a Bad Poet, and I'm proud.
This certainly doesn't mean that you should never strive for your best or to improve,
but just to accept your limitations, accept what you're working with, accept where you
are at and love how silly and messy, absurd, unique, weird, and wonderful that is.
Learn to have pride in that fact that what you create is not "up to code," but it's still
yours anyway.
The cool thing about being a bad writer, bad filmmaker, bad artist, bad dancer, whatever
- is that when the critics come for you, I'm talking the real harsh ones who have nothing
constructive to offer, when they come for you and they try to tear you down and insult
you and tell you that you suck and that you should just give up, you can just look at
them and say, Oh, I know I'm a bad poet.
Oh, I know I'm a bad filmmaker.
Oh, I know I'm a terrible chef.
I have people coming at me all the time, telling me that my poems are poorly written and that
my videos aren't worth watching, but do you see me giving up?
No.
I'm just gonna write more poems and make more videos the more people that try to tell me
to stop [laughs].
People who give unwarranted criticism that it is not in any way constructive tend to
be the kinds of people who want to silence you.
Do not let them silence you.
Look them square in the face and say, You're right, I'm not very good at this.
I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna get better.
But right now, I'm a Bad Poet and I love it.
Now I'm not saying that you shouldn't be open to receiving constructive criticism, but just
like, when these kinds of people come for you and try to tear you down and try to silence
you, this can be a way of protecting yourself.
So go forth, do the thing that you love, and feel free to be bad at it.
We all have to start somewhere, and we're not all going to be the greatest writers,
painters, dancers, singers, singer-songwriters who ever did exist - and that's okay.
It's totally valid to still love to do something, even if you're not amazing at it.
And you ARE still making a valuable contribution to that art-form just by adding your own perspective
and passion to it.
I might be a Bad Poet, but every once in awhile, I'll write a pretty damn good poem.
Come at me, haters.
Essentially, regardless of whether or not you are good, or whether or not you measure
up at the thing that you love, keep doing it because it is the thing that you love.
Give yourself permission to be bad, and to be comfortable with being bad.
Give yourself permission to suck.
And when people come down on you for that, say, Yeah, I know, I do suck at this thing.
Thanks for noticing.
And then keep doing it.
Just a little post-script reminder that I will be putting together the "Fuck with This
Video" collaboration uh very soon, so if you were still planning on sending me something,
please send me uh a message about that because as far as I know, I'm only waiting on a submission
from one individual.
So, um, I will continue to wait for more if I know that there will be more but if I don't
know that there will be more, I will do the next thing, so, yes, let me know, ummm there's
been some cool submissions so far and it's gonna be sweet, and I'm really excited and
yeah!
Thank you for listening to me today and please go forth and make some art.
Okay...
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