22 Jun 02:57
--Yeah! What is this thing we're breathing? Now I'm not quite sure what this shit is
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22 Jun 02:54
--It promotes this grind mentality...which I actually think is horribly destructive
22 Jun 02:54
--90 minute REM cycles I think John. And yeah the whole self-teaching art thing. The one major problem with CD which I still have to this day, is that it is so horribly focused on skills upping that it pushes people away from why they are even doing it in the first place
22 Jun 02:51
--@Hob: There's this sleep tip I got from either Amit or some other dagger, or both, about sleep cycles. Something about waking up on your last sleep cycle or something. Basically, what I did was I scaled back sleeping hours until I find a good waking time!
22 Jun 02:50
--I just hope you guys will realise that the skills grind, IS NOT what this is all about...it really isn't
22 Jun 02:47
--Don't do that. Live your life 24 hours of the day. Figure out how much of that needs to be drawing
22 Jun 02:46
--@Amit: Bah. Balance. It was better when you were ironically going to extremes haha!
22 Jun 02:44
--I am actually writing the secret diary of a freelancer (like the secret diary of adrian mole) haha.
22 Jun 02:43
--If you are more free-spirited and adventurous, freelance life will be better, but you have to be crazy fucking disciplined to make it work
22 Jun 02:42
--John, in a more balanced answer to your question, going through a constant salary in a studio is much more manageable and easy. So aim for that if you want comfort
22 Jun 02:41
--and I think in some ways that's more useful, if you can hear past the frustration :)
22 Jun 02:40
--It's not annoying...but it is a bit like deja vu or a glitch in the matrix haha. Shouldn't stop you guys from asking, but also realise that if you ask the same shit to people, they probably have heard the same thing 1 million times before :)
22 Jun 02:35
--you can use the same template for most things, changing the one sentence that feels customisable to them, as if you really considered them in the past. I highly recommend you make this sincere and do your research...but you can fake it if you want