Condense 4 Years of Design School into 3 Months - A Plan

[sauravchaudhary]

One of the many reasons I love this channel is this guy is so serious and understated, but you KNOW his 20s were wild. Like a smart dude who's fucked around and found out, and was then kind enough to lay it out for us. These are the kind of people I respect the most.

[Loukevski]

Im 25 feeling lost and left behind most of the time, but then I watch videos like these videos and realize Im exactly where I should be. This stuff wouldve never clicked with me years ago no matter how important I was told it was. I used to be obsessed with finding the right courses, materials, method etc and nowadays I realize I just have to be in love with improving and problem solve every step of the way get there. It's up to me. Said tools will then gravitate towards me naturally.

[Adri-Prado]

I love your content, I'm a designer who dropped out of college in her early 20s. In my late 30s I picked it back up, I'm a self taught designer working for a company now. It takes passion and discipline, but it is achievable. One must only accept that you never achieve full knowledge and will never cease to study, as the basics remain but style changes with the times and trends and there's always so much to learn to stay current, but that's part of the beauty of this career.

[TheRealBibwitHarte]

no joke this is one of the best videos ive seen on youtube! your abstract analysis of learning and self actualisation is so CLEAR and EFFICIENTLY EXPLAINED, youre the fucking best

[yvrary]

quite an eye opening video Elliot, im really glad i found your channel early in my design career

[geralldus]

I was trained as a designer and have worked in various fields but eventually became a sculptor/artist. I approached this in much the same way as I did design, it being a problem to be resolved and the work I produced was ok but essentially dull. I then started working in a different way where I would have no conscious idea of what I was doing, just produce anything and see where it end up. This produced a far more interesting and innovative product where I often had no idea where it was leading but just trusted that all the false paths and dead end would lead somewhere and they did. I concluded from this that creativity is a far more mysterious and unconscious process than my initial training indicated.

[KFO-frok]

I/o u/D &B Zen syllogism:
I do not, Cannot control Feeling. Thoughts arise from Feeling.
I do not, Cannot control Feeling.

I and Control are illusory
I Am Free of Control

I found your channel today
I love you, Elliot
Thank you for your display.

[edgarocampopazmino]

I think it's worth nentioning that feelings are the meanings we attach to the emotions we feel.

Emotions we cant control. Emotions are fundamental for our survival, as individuals and collectives. Fear, hunger, sex, vanity emotions like ambition, honour pride, are all fundamental emotions that is programmed in us.

We cant control them, but we can influence them by the meanings we attach to them.

When we feel fear, we can either attach a positive or negative meaning, which help us form thoughts and intergrate them into actions through our feelings - meanings of emotion.

When we feel fear, we can either attach a lacking meaning - "I'm not good enough, my work is rubbish, etc" OR we can attach a opportunity meaning - "I can learn something new! I can grow from this! etc"

I don't believe in self-esteem, but I do believe in self-awareness. The narrative you tell yourself, the inner voice that speaks and narrates your life through feelings, determins your thoughts and actions.

Much of our problems stem from our lack of self-awareness. We attempt to control what we can't - emotions play a very large part of our day to day life. We cant control them. They will arise temporary pausing and stopping us.

The important thing is to remember is that is okay to stop. Rest is important, it does not mean you're being lazy, it means you're recovering, reflecting, resting and you will carry on again.

The important thing is to carry on. Part of the journey is resting, temporary stopping. There are no absolutes in time, everything is temporary and relative.

So even if you plan 3 months of this study, life is bigger than you and so mucu can happen to you thats not in your control.

And that thought you can't control everything is humbling but also to some, brings anxiety.

We're not meant to control everything. So if your plan to be this fresh new graphic designer by 3 months doesnt go to your expectations or plan, remember that this was an opportunity to learn and you will learn something with that opportunity mindset.

You can only control so much. Within the 3 months so much can happen. You get sick, a relative can get sick, you break up with your partner, ecomony gets worse or better etc, you get a new job, soo much can happen.

But that is out of your control. Self-awareness is knowing your limitations, knowing your limitations requires compounding efforts every day that will add up to something at the "end".

You never stop learning btw. The mark of a great designer is that they keep learning new and better ways with each opportunity.

With each opportunity, have a opportunity mindset, attach a positive meaning when you feel emotions. Challenges are good if you see it that way.

Unfortunatley, many of our childhoods we did not learn this. So adulthood is an opportunity for us to replace negative narratives with a balanced one by utalising a positive mindset and attaching positve meanings to emotions we were told were onoy negative.

Emotional intelligence is a discipline or rather skill applicable in every part of your life simply becauase emotions operate in our everyday of our lives. Denying, dissmising ans avoiding them isn't mastering them.

Mastering requires to understand the fundamentals, then finding the effecient ways to given context.

Adoptability and flexibility are necessary because no one situation is the same. They are devloped from positive mindest which is habit and a challenege especially when your "normal" is constant negativity.

[MaheshRavi]

Being a design mentor, i found this video absolutely critical for every student out there. Thanks for putting this out here Elliot.All Love for this channel!

[tristanedmunds]

I'm pretty early in my career, I did art in high school nothing too serious, since then I've been self taught, and I tell you nothings quite clicked until I started watching your videos, your straight to the point "tough love" videos are exactly what was needed, you've put everything into perspective for me and you have shown me a different approach to design and creativity in general. You sir, are the stepping stone I think will take any self taught artist/creative to the next level they have been wanting to reach. Thank you for your time and your knowledge, I will be forever grateful 🙏

[PoliciesOfArt]

I have been pursuing art for about four years. What you said rang true to me. It took me a long time, but I realized how much power the tools I was using, my brain, and spirit had and that they could all work together to create something significant...to me.

[davidwynn]

Domestika is great. As a graphic designer of over 20 years, I routinely watch basic courses, and always pick up new ways of working or ideas, which either I have never learnt, forgot, or gives me reassurance that I have been doing things in the best way.

[almac]

One thing a good design school will give you is connections to the industry you can't online. Especially with the top design schools where most of the staff are working in the industry at major brands already.

[NikkoTanGoogle]

This is what I gravely WANTED from my "art" school. The first half of it. This is so invaluable, thank you.

[Riaz_R]

Thank you, Elliot. This was the exact kind of framework I was trying to figure out for myself for years.
I absolutely agree with you about the quality of domestika courses. Thanks for laying it out so succinctly, I'm ready to get something a little more concrete from my self-studies!

[gaizkabasterretxea]

Elliott, I've been binge watching your videos for the last few days and they have been tremendously insightful amid the professional and psychological turmoil where I find myself in right after graduating from a product design degree and having no clue of what to do.

[dancethemisery]

You are an awesome teacher Elliot, thank you for sharing yourself with us.

[leroisderats]

I strongly agree that the checklist structure that's mostly a result of the Prussian education model does not result in an effective learning programme and that its far more nuanced, philosphical and skill oriented, more classically aligned.

[rebk]

Thank u so much! I'm self learning graphic design and your channel is helping me a lot!!

[JakeDugard]

This. This is what I've tried to pin down the last 7 years that I've been teaching. This attitude. This way of thinking. This way of being. It comes first. My colleagues and I have had countless tired conversations around how to instill passion into our students. Is this the wrong question? Should we ask how to “encourage” (what’s the right word here?) personal responsibility?