Tips for learning no.2
Learn to hear your own voice more...
Thoughts, inspirations and other professional development content for those working in the creative industries, or aspiring to do so.
Originally published in the YCN Student Awards Annual 11/12, Collyn Ahart offers up eleven easy ways to help improve our learning. Illustration by Dan Woodger.
1. Look at more pictures
Especially if you deal primarily in words; buy magazines, go to galleries, waste your afternoon on Tumblr... it won't be a waste of time. The art of seeing what hasn't yet been noticed is an art form unto itself. It unlocks your sense of discovery and the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary. Celebrate your ability to see by looking even more. And when something catches your eye and you think... "Hmmm... I wonder why that is?" Don't stop. Your curiosity is the first clue that it's somrthing worth thinking about.
Collyn Ahart is a freelance insight, innovation and brand strategy consultant working with YCN.
Dan Woodger is a freelance illustrator, animator and muralist.
