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One thing I wish I had time to really work on is building up the self-confidence to take exorbitant risks in the rest of my life and not be deathly afraid that it will all come crashing down if I fail. I think I'd need to thoroughly impress a professor with a glorious disaster before I would feel comfortable making those kinds of choices, or at least hear a really good story about it happening to someone else.
The nice thing about Oswald was that it didn't give you time to think about how ridiculous your entire idea was, and it wasn't just your idea, either, so you couldn't change it last minute. Everyone had to follow through on the same hare-brained concept you'd thought up in the 10 minutes at the end of class because the project was due in 14 hours either way.
I've noticed this semester that the design process gives me far too much time to second guess myself and alter decisions on the side of ease and safety, so any idea I had that might've been brilliant gets sort of buried and smoothed over. It'd be interesting if we arranged something where each student does all the research and concept work for a design, then switch off with someone else to implement it, so the same ideas aren't stewing stagnant in one person's head for a whole month and a half.
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One thing I wish I had time to really work on is building up the self-confidence to take exorbitant risks in the rest of my life and not be deathly afraid that it will all come crashing down if I fail. I think I'd need to thoroughly impress a professor with a glorious disaster before I would feel comfortable making those kinds of choices, or at least hear a really good story about it happening to someone else.
The nice thing about Oswald was that it didn't give you time to think about how ridiculous your entire idea was, and it wasn't just your idea, either, so you couldn't change it last minute. Everyone had to follow through on the same hare-brained concept you'd thought up in the 10 minutes at the end of class because the project was due in 14 hours either way.
I've noticed this semester that the design process gives me far too much time to second guess myself and alter decisions on the side of ease and safety, so any idea I had that might've been brilliant gets sort of buried and smoothed over. It'd be interesting if we arranged something where each student does all the research and concept work for a design, then switch off with someone else to implement it, so the same ideas aren't stewing stagnant in one person's head for a whole month and a half.
K, not my blog. Done.
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