Want to get better than others? Study from others. Subscribe to their Patreons, pin them on Pinterest, watch their YouTube, and emulate what they do. You’re not copying the artists, you’re studying them, and you’re listening to what they think about and process while doing work. The goal is to study and do your own thing from there.
If you can’t explain it simply. You can’t explain it. If it’s complicated, simplify it, get it down to the base problem, put the symptoms aside and focus on the core of what you are doing.
If they don’t like your ideas, your implementation, what you bring to the table. Don’t give them any excuses. Implement it all. It’s hard to ignore the evidence when it’s working right in front of you.
I’m more of a task-based person – I like to check boxes on things I’ve completed. I did this task, I accomplished something, Huzza I got an achievement. Measuring success by time accrued is harder for me to work through – I did some stuff, I didn’t figure it out, but I made progress, am I closer to the end, I don’t know, when will this end, I don’t know, how long does this go…
When you don’t know what you’re doing, I mean, quite honestly, you have no idea what you’re doing and you’re doing it for the first time – you have no idea what will happen when something goes wrong. “I didn’t realize – EVERYTHING – was using that component I was working on and now everything is down” (Never happens). But the more first times you go through, the more you think on your actions, the…