From the mind of critic: “If painting is 90% prep work, do we refrain from painting at all because of all the work we have to do, before the work we have to do? Do we shy away from scraping, sanding and primering, because how is anybody gonna tell when there’s a fresh coat of paint? Do we not care what the paint looks like a few years from now, because having a fresh and shiny beautiful facade as fast as possible is all that matters? Or would we rather have our hard work last for years to come, with paint not chipping or fading away early, specifically because we spent long hard hours preparing so we didn’t have to come back in a year or so, and have to do the same thing all over again? So many issues with so many facets with even more solutions evolve, mutate and might completely change from person to person are extremely daunting, which becomes even tougher when we discover we have to lay the foundation, before we get to do the work we wanted to do in the first place. We can either buckle down and hone in on what we want to accomplish, realizing that more work is involved than we might have expected, but it isn’t going to keep us from our goals. Or do we completely turn off, go in with guns blazing and no preperation, and fail miserably by instantly going down in flames, or have our work break down and fall apart after a short time. This not only wastes our time, but proves that we didn’t want to accomplish our goals as much as we thought. Do we want to accomplish great things? Do we expect them to fall in our lap? If we want to be a real painter and not just play one on TV, we’ll do the work required so the job is done right. If we do something half-ass, what’s the point of doing it at all?” 🙂