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by MrVandemar
1278 days ago
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> If I create something, but nobody ever sees it, did I create it at all? Doesn't feel like it. You have been trained to require external validation for your work. Maybe it's a modern thing with upvotes and twitter and likes and whatnot. If you create a thing, then you have drawn on your skills, probably improving them. Whether the thing is seen by others is irrelvant. What is relevant is your experience in creating it, and the use of it (whether it has a use, or just has aesthetic value). Maybe practice by creating something, then destroying it, as if it had never existed. What remains? Memory and skill, both of great value. |
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And simply the fact that, nowadays, you have access to the production of thousands of other people, with which you can compare yours. And in most cases it will compare unfavourably; to make it worse, almost all those people are unknown to the general public, they are often not even professionals, they are just very ordinary persons with a hobby, and yet you can see in a couple of clicks that they get (much) better results than you do.
On may call this a self-validation based on external elements.
Perhaps, as it devalues your creations in your own eyes, it reinforces the need for external validation.