Is it better to not get good at art?

If you don't get good, you don't know when you're messing up.

Whether it be drawing, physics, swimming, interior design, or any other skill set you can name.

When you do know what you are doing, you know exactly where you’re fucking up. You can see the imperfections, the mistakes, the “it could be betters.” On top of that, you know specifically why it happened, and why i could be better.

That’s a great metric to determine if you know what you’re doing.

Getting good at something is fun and important to succeed at life, obviously.

However, there are benefits to not getting good at things.

For example, I’d say I’m pretty good at website design. I’ve spent years studying it and improving my craft. It’s a highly valuable skill to posses.

However, the downside is that since I'm good at it, I know when I'm messing up. And arguably, I'm overly critical about making mistakes, which is important when I'm doing work for clients.

When it comes do doing art, it’s sometimes better to not know what you’re doing, you can play more.

Consider a child crafting a painting. They don't know or care about perspective, balance, and contrast. They are just having fun painting. It doesn't need to be a masterpiece. There's no judgment about the art they make; they just make art because they enjoy the act of putting paint on paper…. or anything with a surface.

When we're good at art, maybe even if we call ourselves an 'artist,' we tend to overthink and know what's "wrong" about the composition we're working on.

Sadly, at times, this can take all the fun out of the endeavor.

So sometimes, it’s better to not know what you’re doing.

Just don’t go build a rocket with 0 engineering background please.

Maybe keep it to less explosive things.

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