Keep learning

After spending several hours by reading comments from the VFX artists, motion designers' poll, I've figured out some repeating advises, which are similar across various positions and years of experience.

These advises are to keep learning new things, be attentive to health and relationships, be always a good person to others, sell your services well.

But these advises are simple to suggest, but how is it look like in reality? For which person all doors are always open?

Smart, intelligent, happy, curious and smiling person whose interests are far behind its normal career path.

When you can solve some tough problems in ANY business like medical, accountancy, technology, food chains, consultancy, marketing, etc.

People are interested in those, who have a non obvious point of view.

Those, who can step further to take risks and overcome hardships with a smile.

No matter which role and company you're connected to. It's seen easily those, who are open for experimentation and have big patience to push any obstacle out from the road.

Those who dive deeper in a specialization can lose this sense of inner comfort, if something fails. And very often, the learning progress is decreasing after several years of doing the same as it was couple years before.

Solving new problems is a challenging process, but this is the reason, why someone is ready for new victories (and loses), and another one is afraid as like it's the end of life.

By keeping learning you provide yourself opportunities, that always enriching previous experiences. It's just needed to make sure you still remember what was learnt, at least occasionally. But unconsciously it's still persists in our brain.

Practice is probably a single way to remember for a long time the information, that was somehow used in our life.

My mistake is to read some information without implementing it immediately right after you've understood some concepts. For example if there were examples about implementing proportions of the golden section, I didn't tried it in design and animation projects. I've just believed that's really simple thing to remember, so no need to make anything here.

Everything learnt should have enough time to practice and implement it. Some people are learning on practice. So, everything new is read specifically for some use. And right after that it's applied in a real situation.

Probably it's the reason, why some people are making significant steps in their career in the first years. And some are moving slow, just because they're afraid of real projects, problems and responsibilities.

The best way to learn information is to get it from someone, who knows already all tricks and things. But they can share this information if you can handle it. So, without active learning there's a high chance of spending time for nothing.

Keep learning, implement, plan and take risks. That's the model that should help you avoid the burnout, to find new interests and earn more. And will keep smile more often on your beautiful face.

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