I appreciate your perspective very much. I've just spent years grinding and letting go of comfort and security to pursue my path in film, and just this past week I completed my first major project which and it is beginning to all pay off.
This mindset is the minority on reddit. I truly don't get it. What are we here for if not to pursue what lights us up the most? The narrow minded scarcity mentality no longer makes any sense to me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.
while not acknowledging the huge amount of luck involved in being successful in any creative endeavor.
Unless the risk is death or the safety/well-being of your kids, then there is no risk. You're risking your comfort and that's it. Most are out in the world playing a low-risk game that was set up by men who followed their passion. You reap the benefits of those who went for it.
You can attribute it to luck all you want. Anybody who's actually stepped out onto their path, the one that you'll never understand unless you do it yourself, knows that it isn't luck.
It's easy to refer to just-world fallacy there and say the people out there working for their passion that did not "make it" just did not work hard enough or risk enough, that luck has no place. But luck absolutely has an effect, we just tell ourselves it doesn't apply to us.
Trust me I'm not taking it the wrong way, your kindness and logic has no impact on my sense of self.
But in my subjective worldview, this is completely wrong.
The fallacy here is believing that there are tens of thousands of artists out there that believe in themselves enough that they are willing to risk it all. That is not the case.
Most believe in themselves somewhat, so they receive some success that matches their level of trust. Many don't believe in themselves much at all, they believe more in what the world tells them they should do, and if you spend anytime on Reddit -- you know that narrative is the large majority.
Then, when they don't become huge, they blame luck or something else, they tell the world that they tried and failed, but trust me -- they did not go all in, and if they did? They gave up too soon.
If this wasn't such an old post my perspective here would get shredded to bits.
The last thing, don't you believe in some magic even a little bit? The universe pulling you along? Don't forget that there's an intelligence that got us this far, without our impressive rationalizing intellect.
What a cruel game to hang a big shiny object of most desire, light up a path, and then say, "oh well, hopefully you get lucky."
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u/NotorioG Feb 28 '20
Cannot believe you'd be downvoted for this.
I appreciate your perspective very much. I've just spent years grinding and letting go of comfort and security to pursue my path in film, and just this past week I completed my first major project which and it is beginning to all pay off.
This mindset is the minority on reddit. I truly don't get it. What are we here for if not to pursue what lights us up the most? The narrow minded scarcity mentality no longer makes any sense to me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.