Comments on: The value of skill http://www.crafterbynight.com/2010/01/28/the-value-of-skill/ Creative craftivity - some of the million things in my head spill out here. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:27:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Abby http://www.crafterbynight.com/2010/01/28/the-value-of-skill/comment-page-1/#comment-22054 Abby Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:24:52 +0000 http://www.crafterbynight.com/?p=1294#comment-22054 Miriam, Your post reminds me of the following quote: "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." - Shunryo Suzuki-Roshi I like to be right and I relish the thought of being expert, but both positions have their drawbacks, you know? Key to beginner's mind is humility and an understanding of how much there is to know. I'm always impressed at all you endeavor to do, whether it's whip up dozens of fancy cookies in a tiny kitchen or wake up one morning and take on papercutting for the first time. Abby Miriam,
Your post reminds me of the following quote: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” – Shunryo Suzuki-Roshi

I like to be right and I relish the thought of being expert, but both positions have their drawbacks, you know? Key to beginner’s mind is humility and an understanding of how much there is to know. I’m always impressed at all you endeavor to do, whether it’s whip up dozens of fancy cookies in a tiny kitchen or wake up one morning and take on papercutting for the first time.

Abby

]]> By: Miriam http://www.crafterbynight.com/2010/01/28/the-value-of-skill/comment-page-1/#comment-22047 Miriam Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:49:54 +0000 http://www.crafterbynight.com/?p=1294#comment-22047 Nah, it's not lame. I like putting together patterns from others sometimes. Unfortunately, I am terrible (TERRIBLE) at following directions. Congenitally unable. Simply can't do it. Fatal flaw. If I didn't make up my own, I couldn't do anything. I would love to be able to just recreate or do from a pattern sometimes. I'm pretty sure you do have ideas, anyway. And it seems to me that a lot of the original ideas I see out there are derivative of something else anyway. We all borrow bits and pieces from a million different places. Ah, skills. You know, I can't knit. I don't know what it is, but I try and regularly fail. Can't work with things that are dangerous because I'm accident-prone, too. Of course, I never thought of it this way but I saw a woman who'd stabbed herself in the hand with a tiny crochet hook - never thought crochet was a dangerous craft ... Nah, it’s not lame. I like putting together patterns from others sometimes. Unfortunately, I am terrible (TERRIBLE) at following directions. Congenitally unable. Simply can’t do it. Fatal flaw. If I didn’t make up my own, I couldn’t do anything. I would love to be able to just recreate or do from a pattern sometimes. I’m pretty sure you do have ideas, anyway. And it seems to me that a lot of the original ideas I see out there are derivative of something else anyway. We all borrow bits and pieces from a million different places.

Ah, skills. You know, I can’t knit. I don’t know what it is, but I try and regularly fail. Can’t work with things that are dangerous because I’m accident-prone, too. Of course, I never thought of it this way but I saw a woman who’d stabbed herself in the hand with a tiny crochet hook – never thought crochet was a dangerous craft …

]]> By: urban craft http://www.crafterbynight.com/2010/01/28/the-value-of-skill/comment-page-1/#comment-22037 urban craft Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:02:25 +0000 http://www.crafterbynight.com/?p=1294#comment-22037 what about skills without ideas? I can paint or stitch something together. But thinking up a concept in my head seems impossible sometimes. It's way easier for me to recreate. Is that lame? And other skills like knitting and crocheting which I have totally been trying to acquire, escape me. what about skills without ideas?
I can paint or stitch something together. But thinking up a concept in my head seems impossible sometimes. It’s way easier for me to recreate.
Is that lame? And other skills like knitting and crocheting which I have totally been trying to acquire, escape me.

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