{"id":546,"date":"2009-07-10T18:19:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-07-10T18:19:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:19:46","slug":"a-creative-coming-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2009\/07\/10\/a-creative-coming-of-age\/","title":{"rendered":"A Creative Coming of Age."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest I&#8217;ve never been the most creative guy. As a child I was horrible at drawing and anything that required <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lateral_thinking\" target=\"_blank\">lateral thinking<\/a> I pretty much threw by the wayside. I guess that&#8217;s why I was drawn to computers and mathematics, they&#8217;re pretty straight forward and there&#8217;s always logical steps you can follow to get to your goal. Over the past few years I&#8217;ve begun to realise my creativity in other areas, and this blog has been a wonderful outlet to express myself. It&#8217;s a strange sort of coming of age for me, since now I&#8217;m starting to encounter all those problems that my much more creative friends have talked about.<\/p>\n<p>The penny dropped pretty recently after I watched this video by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jay_Smooth\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Smooth<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illdoctrine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ill Doctrine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Beating The Little Hater\" width=\"668\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0TpmJgSfZ_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>He puts the problems that I&#8217;ve faced as a late creative bloomer into perspective. Whenever I sit in front of my computer and begin to write I always have to question whether or not what I&#8217;m writing is complete trash or if the whole idea of this blog is merely a feeble grab at some Internet fame. When I first started out my little hater kept telling me that every day someone didn&#8217;t visit my blog was a sign that I was not meant to do this sort of thing. He was kept at bay for several months until recently when I logged in to see the ugly 0 there again. All that doubt came flooding back and I started to question why I was even bothering doing this in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The good news out of all of this is that the last couple weeks of spotty posts haven&#8217;t been due to me caving into my little hater. With the starting of a new job and subsequently less time to blog I&#8217;ve usually lacked the time to post consistently. I had a rythym going at my old job and I just need to find that again with my new workplace, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get the swing of it in a month. The bigger, and more important reason is that I&#8217;ve been semi-secretly working on a new web application. With my 100th post coming up I felt I should do something special and it just so happened that I was planning to do a 1.0 release to the public this weekend, and my 100th post will introduce my application along with a cursory look back over the past 6 months or so of this blog, just for old times sake \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So stay tuned, hopefully you&#8217;ll like what I&#8217;ve tried to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest I&#8217;ve never been the most creative guy. 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