Colin Thomson: Do More

Key Take Aways: What is your potential? - we usually think it’s basically limitless What is the only way to find your potential? - it’s to produce When you produce anything, there’s only one place you can start from: exactly where you are at this instance Not where you think you can be sometime in the future This means: you are forced to come to grips with the complete understanding of what your abilities are AT THIS SECOND But THIS second is all that counts! You can have all of the potential in the world bottled up inside of you, but if you’ve done nothing to cultivate that potential - it doesn’t count for anything Is flies against some of the ideas of perfectionism that can sometimes come into play for the artist And perfectionism is good in the amount that it can drive you to really push yourself, and to work really hard But perfectionism can be a hinderance when it comes to actually putting products out there, into the world, as finished products This means: not hiding, telling everyone “oh, this is just