This¹ popped into my feed again, and I want to add something else: being a bit shit at stuff and doing it anyway is specifically a radical, anti-capitalist act. ✊🏻 An underlying reason you want to do things well is because you’ve internalised the lesson that stuff only has value if it literally has economic value – if you can sell it.
Post your wonky drawings. Throw an ungainly pot. Make sub-par dinners. You’re literally smashing the system. ♥️
¹ From @ITOmarHernandez, reposted by @girlonthenet
@chrisphin @ITOmarHernandez @girlonthenet
100% disagree. The reason I want to do things well is because I WANT TO DO THINGS WELL. Wanting to sell it has nothing to do with it.
Wanting to do something well doesn’t mean you can’t show the journey(wonky pics or bad dinner). It doesn’t mean you cannot try stuff.
It means you try your best. When I worked in fast food as a teen, I hated it, and still made a good burger.
I say “Don’t embrace mediocrity. Try hard. Do your best.”
100% agree with that. I’m more in disagreement with the suggestion that wanting to be good at something is based on the desire to monetize it.
I think people, certainly me, want to be good at things because that is our nature.
However, the fear of not being good at a thing should not prevent you trying trying or doing it if you enjoy it.
I think we are closer than farther on this.
@davidhmccoy
I used to play a game online with a group of friends. It was great fun, but then some of the group started to take it really seriously and try and do everything the best way possible, strategy, class picks whatever. It got in the way of having fun for me and some others so we stopped playing.
To do the best job possible in that would have been at the cost of time to do other things.
What I would suggest is that there was a mismatch between you and those people. To some, their best is casual. To others, it’s boning up on strategy.
Your best seems to be more on the casual side and the best of your buddies was leaning towards less casual.
Everyone’s best isn’t going to have the same input or outcome.
I take taekwondo. I spared with people from kids to grandparents. Their best was rangy and I treated them all accordingly.
But we asked that they do their best.
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