Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential
The Magic F Word
A course by Diana Varma , Writer and Podcast Host
About the video: The Magic F Word
Overview
“You’ll hear why friction, frustration, and failure are common feelings in the creative process and why they are necessary. While failure can walk alongside us, we are not failures. You’ll learn why low-stakes opportunities to try new things (and succeed or fail at them) make for not only an exciting life, but also one that invites creative confidence with open arms. Finally, you’ll experience these unpleasant emotions first-hand, welcoming failure into your creative practice. ”
In this video lesson Diana Varma addresses the topic: The Magic F Word, which is part of the Domestika online course: Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential. Learn how to reframe your challenges and turn them into a catalyst for creativity with a framework for success based on your values, intentions, and motives.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Magic F Word In the last lesson, we redefined success. In this lesson, I'll teach you the magic F word. We can learn a lot from cute, adorable otters. In his book about play, medical researcher and doctor Stuart Brown talks about a biologist who studies river otters. These river otters were given a task: to swim through a hoop to get a food reward. Once the otters figured it out, they didn't just continue going through the hoop forwards to get the food. Rather, they decided to play. They went backward, upside down, and flipped through the hoop to see if that would also give them a rew...”
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Course summary for: Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential
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Diana Varma
A course by Diana Varma
Diana Varma is a writer, educator, and podcaster. She started her career in the printing industry, but always knew she wanted to teach. Since earning an MA in communication and technology, she’s been sharing her knowledge as a lecturer at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her passion is helping students connect their technical left brains with their creative right brains for fulfilling careers in creative industries.
In her free time, Diana writes, produces, and hosts the podcast Talk Paper Scissors, where she explores topics ranging from design and branding to typography and printing. She’s also written more than 150 articles on these subjects for Graphic Arts Magazine. Diana is a member of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers and, in 2019, won a Dean’s teaching award for her lectures.
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