Chapter 1: Why should you listen to your haters?
I think you should listen to your haters more than you think. I actually think it's a really good thing that you have someone who does not like what you're doing. It means you're going against some kind of grain and you're striking a chord. It's probably a minor. No. Okay. We're leaving that in 2025. All right. We're going to act like that never happened.
By the way, I'm going to squish this person. Okay. Haters are good. Haters mean progress. They also mean that you have some kind of pull, some kind of attribute in your work, in what you do, that is not normal. Now, let's be real. Some of you may have made things, right, like art, music, or written things that are objectively trash. Terrible.
Somebody is probably sending an Instagram reel to their friend laughing at you about it, okay? But I want you to know that anyone that has made anything good... They got laughed at. 100%. It's very rare that you find someone that's immediately goaded.
Chapter 2: How can haters signify progress in your work?
Yo, no way, bro. McGee is immediately goaded. But what people don't understand is McGee took time. And in a world where people want things instantaneously, time will be your friend. If you have people that hate, what I think it's imperative that you do, especially if you want to develop as a human being, as an artist, as an athlete, whatever you do, ask them why. Why are you hating? It's corny.
Why is it corny? I don't know. It just sounds weird. Okay, that's not really constructive. Your gut's telling you this guy's a shme. Move to someone who can give you constructive criticism. This is kind of mid. Why is it mid? I just feel like it's not authentic. One of the best comments I ever got early in my career, talking in front of the camera, right, was that I was trying to be funny.
I wasn't actually just being me. I wasn't trolling around. I was instead like trying to dance monkey, dance monkey, dance monkey. It just, nah, no. the more that you talk to your haters, and the more that you actually befriend your haters and use them as constructive criticism, the better your work will become over time.
The better you're going to get in life with dealing with people, with dealing with yourself, with understanding, okay, I need to figure out how to make something palatable. Because there's a good chance you don't even like what you're making. There's a really good chance. Or you don't even like who you are. And somebody hating on you, right?
There's a difference between them just being like a jackass and actually saying, this is not good. The latter is rooted in some kind of truth, especially if it hurts you. If you feel confident in what you do, if you feel like, you know what? I made this song, I freestyled on it, it was a banger. All right, then that comment won't inflict that much pain onto you.
But I find that in the people that are the most defensive about their work, they know it stinks. It sucks. Because I think if you had faith in what you do, you wouldn't care. You wouldn't care. So use that discomfort to recognize I can do better. I 100% can do better. I can make things that are way more impactful. I can make things that just feel more authentically me. But I'm scared.
I'm scared. Of what? Of people hating. Okay, but who are you making it for? Your art that you want to start. Why are you so defensive over it? I think it's because you're trying to impress people. I don't actually think it's because you want to make genuine art.
And instead of looking at the process and looking at what you can learn, you immediately judge any kind of improvement based on the critique of other people. That's not how this works. And I've had to learn that the hard way.
Man, I used to have my entire ego wrapped up in my own mind about what is somebody going to think of what I make and what is somebody going to think of my song and me singing. You will not be around for very long. Use that as motivation.
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Chapter 3: What is the importance of constructive criticism from haters?
That's a different kind of battle. What I think is so important and where people get it completely wrong is they think the fact that they don't have the skills to do what they want. Let's say you want to take photos and you want to make work like Jeff Bridgeland. I'm sure you guys have seen this like Looney Tunesque kind of lit up photos. He took a photo I think of...
The guy that was Batman, Robert Patterson, for GQ, really insane colors, insanely lit. You want to take photos like that, but you do not have the means. It takes a whole production studio to design the lighting of that. You don't have the skill. You don't even know where to start. Instead of starting with what you have and what you could do now, you give up.
You tell yourself the gear is holding you back. The fact that you don't know people is holding you back. The fact that I'm not there yet is holding you back. It is holding you back because you haven't even started the journey.
And what you will realize is when you start it, you're going to change what you want to do very quickly because you'll learn the realities of creativity and that it is that of a float.
the more that you hold on to the visions you have in your mind of who you wanna be artistically, who you wanna be as a writer, as a creator, as a whatever, even as a human being, you will constantly disappoint yourself. And that won't keep the ball rolling. And in this world, I promise you, the most and the best things happen from the ball continuing to roll, picking up speed, consistency.
It will make the downward parts of your life easier too, because when you already have the speed of doing things consistently, you'll just kind of roll back up on the hill. Versus when you hold yourself to a standard that isn't realistic, when you hold yourself to this thing of, I need to be the next Quentin Tarantino, the next Jordan Peele. The ceiling is way higher.
And you don't allow yourself to slowly inch up. You limit yourself right off the bat. I say this because I had this mindset.
I wasn't going to make music unless it sounded like Brockhampton or Daft Punk. I wasn't going to film unless it was on a Sony FX3.
It rots your brain. No, you know, traleo, tralala, whatever. No brain rot. It ruins you. Creative standards. And instead of looking at your process... of creativity as one of feedback, of learning, of being like, I'm gonna try this, I'm gonna try that. Okay, this didn't work. I'm gonna try this. Ooh, people like when I sing. Okay, I'm gonna try to sing more.
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Chapter 4: How can you differentiate between hate and genuine criticism?
Because I don't think that's how expression works really. Some of the best jokes comedians make are on the fly. They're not prepared. They didn't take months to write. They just happened. They're in the city and they're like, dude, this place sucks. What is wrong with you people? You drive on the left-hand side and the crowd goes, oh, they've got the whole crowd laughing.
It happens by capturing a moment. And I think the more that you just squeeze these expressive pieces into time capsules of your life, the more it's going to hurt when you realize you have a lot of work to do. And just because you spend a lot of time doing something doesn't mean, like one thing, doesn't mean you're getting better at it.
Because what if you're trying to perfect a way that you're brushing the canvas? What if you're trying to perfect a single shot? I think you would learn more from doing it a lot and figuring out how you can do it a lot. Or maybe you won't. Maybe that advice isn't good advice for you. And this is another thing that you have to take into consideration.
What works for somebody else does not mean it will work for you. Rarely does it. Be careful. You can get blinded by this idea, no, no, no, I need to be more elusive. I need to be more like Cardi. What? I need to just like be off the grid and then people will get interested in me. Okay, maybe. Or no, no, no, no, no.
Actually the meta is I need to be in front of the camera every single day and I need to be like hitting the grid. I don't know. Like that is, that's what I need to do. Maybe. What do you want to do? Authenticity comes down to action. And if you do not act in an authentic way, people will sniff it out. And
I think in a world that has already a lot of slop, authenticity is the last piece of currency. It's the last stamp of approval that you cannot argue against. Because if somebody is authentic, they're that guy, you really can't say otherwise. It's like respect, right? And if you can respect your own work, that's great too. Good things come with time.
They come with understanding that you have some kind of potential. You have something that you're great at. You have something that you're good at maybe. Not even great. And you're willing to put the time into it. A lot of people ask me, how did I get so good at speaking? I did it a lot. Before this even, I talked to myself all the time. Like a crazy person. Because I love talking. I love it.
I love I used to pretend I was on a radio show and I pretended to like play music and do like radio intros. You can make it fun. Art doesn't need to be this insane struggle. I think it's romanticized, but it's it's the struggle comes from the process. It comes from the limitations.
It doesn't need to come from this fake, oh, I gave myself a year to make this and I said it was only gonna be right when it's perfect. Bro, that's not you. Do what is easy and the challenges will come, I promise. You will want to challenge yourself when you get in the flow of things. Those are some thoughts. I don't know how many of them will help.
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