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Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 43 - Stagnation
You never really need to worry about stagnating. You can still keep churning gems, even if we need "more"... but nothing needs to happen "today". Just be productive and keep pushing the quality of your gems and in the future it'll snowball into something nice. That's the right mindset.
You can always make things better. People who think they've got a masterpiece by now and it can't get any better are idiots. You can work on your gems over and over and in the end it'll be what you always dreamed of. If you always try and do better than the next person, then there's nothing you can't accomplish. There's only one way, the "best" way to make gems. If you think you've been making better and better gems all this time, that is very likely to be the case. You can keep doing things exactly like you always have. The only difference now is that you have a much larger vision of what you want, and you're making it all happen.
I was thinking of this when I had that great idea of a gem, but since I have NO art skills whatsoever, I posted it on /r/ where it sadly didn't get done. I excuse myself as being lazy, whatever helps me feel better about not wanting to learn to draw 'jaks. All I can think of is that there's no better motivation than the mind's desire to do better, just the effort you put in to make things happen.