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When you have poured your heart, soul, time, and effort into any form of artistic output - regardless of whether it is music, writing, painting, filmmaking, photography, or anything else - it can be extremely frustrating (and can even be downright discouraging!) when you stumble across negative reactions to your work. But while there is probably nothing you can do to make yourself not care at all when people say negative things about your creative output (that is, there is nothing you can do outside of simply getting conditioned to it!), there are certainly some things you can do in order to take a lot of the sting out of this frustration. Even before you engage in any sort of creative output in the first place, the first thing you should realize is that there will never be a work of art (in any field of the arts) that will be universally liked; everyone has different tastes, and just as surely as some people will love your creative output, there will also be people who will hate it, and this is okay, because this simply means they have different tastes! Once you have established this idea in your mind, it will help you to move past the frustration and to see if there is anything in the criticism you received that you can learn from - which is great, because even the most scathing reviews will often have a nugget of truth hidden somewhere inside them. And finally, you should keep in mind the quote from JD Salinger, in which he said, "An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's" - as this quote will help you remember that the main thing is for you to feel happy with your creative output! If you feel happy about the work you have done - and if you feel good about it - it will not matter what others say about it (regardless of whether they say good things or bad things), as you will be happy with it regardless.
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