I know too many people who *want* to make stuff — write, draw, paint, make music — but they ask themselves “What’s the point?” and don’t have a good answer. 🖍
So why do I make a doodle every day? What’s it all for? That’s what I talked about on today’s IGTV Doodlecam video. 🖍
The answer is a lot like the answer to “why meditate?” The benefits are vast, yet I don’t do it for some scientific cost-benefit analysis.
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I do know that after years of (almost) daily doodling, there has been a profound transformation. In just ten minutes a day.
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Try it yourself, and see how it affects you. You may need to give it a couple of weeks, a month, but if you allow yourself to really play in the Creative Sandbox for even 10 minutes a day, it will change you.
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From a 10-min live-streamed video on Doodling as a Spiritual Practice. (I had to set a stopwatch to make sure I kept it under 10 min, so I could post it to IGTV without editing it down! 😜)
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One of my big goals for the weekend was to practice visual notetaking. I have an actual gig on July 22 (!) 🖍
I’ll be doing a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® team building hour at the Annual Board Retreat for my synagogue, and I asked the Board president if he could use any of the retreat documented, and he said yes, so I offered to do visual notes! He was quite enthusiastic, so now my goal is to practice as much as I can between now and then!
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Today I watched a @creativelive CreativeLive class on visual notes, and this is my attempt at the final practice exercise.
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I’m proud of myself for trying, but I’m not impressed with my efforts—there’s no cohesiveness to the structure—it’s all over the map; my lettering is sloppy (you’d never know I used to be a professional calligrapher, partly because I’m not used to working large, but mostly because I’m not used to working at speed, so my lettering really degrades when I go fast!); there aren’t enough visuals; I didn’t listen well, so I emphasized things that I would leave out entirely if I were to do it again.
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Yep, I need a lot of improvement. But hey, that’s what practice is for! 😊 🖍
You’ve got to start somewhere! You have to let yourself make crap, because it’s the crap that fertilizes the good stuff! 💩 You have to let yourself suck in order to learn how to unsuck!
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So here’s me starting, learning how to unsuck. 😊
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Little by little I will get better. I do not expect this to be a linear process, but I do expect improvement over time if I put in the effort.
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Next time I will choose one thing to focus on (probably listening for structure), and try again.
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What are you working on?
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See the smudges? That happened while I was live-streaming this video via Doodlecam. Instead of panicking when the first smudge happened, instead of declaring, “This doodle is RUINED!”, I ran with it! I turned the smudges into a feature!
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My inner 4-year-old was having a blast! Now the smears were no longer a disastrous mistake, but an experiment to expand upon. Great fun!
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You can watch the whole thing in my first IGTV video. 😊 Let me know what you think!
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