This is the second time today I find myself sat down, relaxing. Fantastic. So in turn, I think and say, I learnt how to make washing smell good today. I spoon fed the washing machine with detergent powder, literally. I then added some fabric softener but to the volume of my own intuition not what is says on the box. I momentarily stop writing (football’s on). I return to this and find myself say, I must write completely different to however I have ever written before. So in saying that, I find myself pondering, searching, seeking for the next thing to write. It was only until I realised I find out it very was difficult and had to reallllllly think that I could even attempt in trying to do it. This is my attempt. I’m unsure if it has been done or not so I’m going to stop. Don’t worry, I am not a lunatic; this relates to something I heard saw/read/heard!! The other day, it was again a YouTube video, and I am currently thanking my brain for remembering the source! Van Neistat again (sorry), but the concept of ‘Work Arounds’.

The concept of work arounds. The following is my interpretation and paraphrasing of Van Neistat’s …..on Work-A-Rounds. A workaround is another name for this idea of cutting corners when doing something. When doing something, and as reality prevails, you may not be able to do that something that way, so you may do something a slightly different way, or figure out how to do something that in your eyes is deemed more efficient/effective or /better. When you accumulate enough workarounds you being to develop a style and technique that might be your own, and then in turn! The result could be ‘originality’. This stems from the attitude of ‘good enough’. “Oh that’s good enough” *moves on*. “That will do” *moves on*. This conversation comes from exploring the idea of perfection and perfectionism. Excellence vs Good Enough. This is how though everybody is different and everybody is unique but we all do similar things which is why my previous thoughts on originality were present – ‘nothing is every truly original’. But it’s refreshing to hear and see that in every single interaction with every single little thing, combined, equals you. I suppose there are even work arounds in my own writing that affords me the opportunity to possibly develop a style. I don’t think I have, I couldn’t tell you what it is or describe. I’ve had some people tell me and allude to my style but god knows what they mean. How long does it take you develop a style, there has to be some criteria, like surely and obviously doing something for first time you haven’t developed a style. Only when you do something enough /= consistency?

The video then mentions Wes Anderson, and if you know me, you know I appreciate Wed Anderson tremendously.

I also want to link this to another lesson learnt from another source of my certain angles/perspective/belief/philosophy, yet again, Marco Pierre White. He tells us that, “flavour is in the method”; very similar to what Van Neistat was telling me with regard to these workarounds and style…assign flavour here, to personality/human originality.