Ok so i couldn’t decided on what i wanted to rant about today there are two different types of people that just annoy me. I couldn’t decide on which one i hate more soo
Two for one deal for hate today! get it while its hot.
People Who Ask Questions Before Looking!
Ok so i know every single one of you have been in this situation. This really doesn’t apply to the category i am going to use as an example but here it goes. So I think its safe to say that Everyone has been annoyed by people that just start asking questions and not using there own brain power to figure it out.
I get asked all the time how to do something or where is this at in this certian program. I could care less if you ask me these things cause if you were never shown you will never know. But the execption is if you never look you will never know either. You have to try how can i help someone that won’t help themselves. I use to deal with this alot when i worked in news and still some times deal with it from time to time. It really just annoys me. When someone comes to me “i don’t know how to do it where is that thing i have seen before…bold i think it was….?” When it gets to that this is where i say….did you look? this is the question if answered right i will show without a problem in the world. but if answered NO. i look at them and say ok well lets look and see. so we look and well what do you know its under type there we go all better as i slip away from a man that has been in his job longer than i have been alive. the next thing is Can you do this in this program (a program that i do not use) umm i don’t know look it up and see.
Well how do i do that?
get ready people of all shapes and sizes for the button that will change your life
F1
(thats the button beside the ESC key)
this is called help it helps you find things. yup its like your own personal data base of this program and information on all it does and where its at. Well I’m working on a Windows machine and i know you run a Mac. well here we go this is what we call a universal key no matter what program and what computer your on this is ALWAYS the help button. So for you people that have just started in this strange and different world with all these Webs and wondering where are all the wires are on wireless things. Just step back sometimes and when your confused and can’t find something hit that little button. After you have used all the power of your brain and grey skull then just ask someone.
*one exception i have found for this. you need something done fast and now and don’t know where something is thats OK. Sometimes you are in a crunch and gotta get that crap done and theirs not enough time to figure it out. We are all there sometimes.
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Oh yes! I am delivering the Hate today.
People that ask for input that don’t want to hear it.
So this is one of my most hated types of people. These types of people are people not really looking to improve there work cause in there wonderful minds there is nothing to fix. they are trying to show off there work instead of seeking input from someone to critique it. Every time i have ever dealt with these types of people they get so defensive of there work. They act like they are the Leonardo da Vinci of our time and you are asking them to change the smile of mona lisa. The sad part is these people truly believe in there head there work is soo amazing and they don’t expect you to come up with anything that could be changed on there work. I have realized with dealing with so many of these people in my life these people are usually not that great to begin with. They have just been around people that do not understand or get what they do or how they do. so they think they are amazing at it cause they can’t do it. You keep getting told over and over how amazing you are guess what people…. Yes you are going to start to think you are the Leonardo da Vinci of our time. BUT!! when you start to place these people in an environment with people that can do all they can do and most can do better they start to get into defense mode. Someone that is saying that my stuff is not good enough everyone likes it except you so… there is something wrong with you not me my work is fine. The bad part about these people they never get better they just get worse in what they do or they just stay in the same rut they started in. All i can really do is give art examples since that is all i have experienced. I have seen people better than me. Yes people who did what i did and they just naturally did it better. They just did what they did and thats it and bam out did me by a mile. So we are in all the same classes all the way up to graduation and i turned out to be the best. Why? this person had so much potential to create and do great things but i became better than this person. Why you ask. Well there was a huge difference between me and this person.
ME
I knew i was not the best.
I knew i could improve in what i do.
I had so much to learn and wanted all the knowledge i could get.
I knew my teachers were greater in skill than I was and I knew I could learn something from them.
The Other Person
I am the best here.
I don’t have much to improve what i already have.
I have learned all the skills i need.
the skills i have get me by just fine.
I could teach this class if i had too.
Notice the difference but the one thing that i did every time that this person never did was i asked for help i asked for opinions and critiquing to see where i can improve and how to improve it. I asked for input from my peers cause some of them were good in certain areas i was not and just the opposite and I valued there opinions. This person never did any of that never took input. Never listened to teachers on how there work could improve. and slowly I started to get better grades and slowly there grades started to fall cause they were not improving. The great thing about Art School is you are not graded on comparison cause some people will never be as good at drawing as you are but you might not ever be as good as they are in modeling something. So you get graded on how much you personally improve and i did i was a sponge i took everything i could in. This person didn’t which is one of the saddest things that is why I hate these types of people they have such potential they there pride gives them a glass ceiling. Why go to school when you do not want to be taught. seems like such a waste of time and money. So i hate these types of people with the attitude that will never make them better. I still to this day ask for input from fellow artists and freinds i get some of my best ideas from things they mention that could change or some of there input adds so much to what was there. I have friends that do the same send me stuff to see what i think of it. It just makes you better and more humble of a person to take criticism in a non hurtful way. Cause a critique on your work is something to improve you not to show off how good you are.
be a sponge.
-MeaD.
