Comments on: Has Undo Removed the Tortured Artist? Well if your concerned about this you could always remove the undo button. ;) Well if your concerned about this you could always remove the undo button. ;)

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By: Jonny Galloway/2011/05/10/has-undo-removed-the-tortured-artist/#comment-3962 Jonny Galloway Thu, 12 May 2011 23:03:04 +0000 Undo probably didn't remove it. It might have changed the learning process and reduced the value of knowledge but the concept of not being happy with my creations is still here. :D Being a tortured artist isn't really useful in our world anyway - only those get noticed that can yell loud enough. And if you don't at least respect your work, there's a tiny chance that someone else is going to do this. That said, I don't want to make the value of torture less than it is today - in fact, not being satisfied is what still should drive the learning process. I just want to put it differently - the ability to "drain" success and the ability to look above it are important. There's one interesting example of draining success given by Valve's Gabe Newell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5VAfXpSRF8 (it's at ~0:40 +/- 8 secs). Undo probably didn’t remove it. It might have changed the learning process and reduced the value of knowledge but the concept of not being happy with my creations is still here. :D

Being a tortured artist isn’t really useful in our world anyway – only those get noticed that can yell loud enough. And if you don’t at least respect your work, there’s a tiny chance that someone else is going to do this. That said, I don’t want to make the value of torture less than it is today – in fact, not being satisfied is what still should drive the learning process. I just want to put it differently – the ability to “drain” success and the ability to look above it are important.

There’s one interesting example of draining success given by Valve’s Gabe Newell: