How To (Not) Fail As An Artist by Elaine Zicree and Marc Zicree

Watch the video interview on Youtube here

Film Courage: I want to go back to something you said about being adverse to learning something new and just giving something a try. I was doing research on either the Supermentors.com site or MarcZicree.com and I think you’d written about the topic of ‘Learn Something New.’ Especially for individuals Generation X or older, they [typically] don’t want to learn something new, but Millennials I think are much more open to it because they’ve been exposed to all of this new technology. What do you say to someone who is very set in their ways about working in a certain medium and it holds them back?

Marc Zicree: Well, here is the question about what do you want to accomplish? And the second question is am I succeeding at that? (more on this topic continued in this video interview with Elaine and Marc Zicree).

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