Leading painters

- [top-notch](/en/top-notch) painters paint what they think is good.

• A second-rate painter paints what the public thinks is good.
• A third-rate painter paints what he thinks "the public thinks is good.

explanation

• Third-rate painters paint what they think "the public will think is good," but in reality it is not.

  • self-serving assumption
  • If you can actually draw "what the public thinks is good", you are promoted to second class.

• But first-class is not an extension of this. As long as it is measured by the world's evaluation, it stops at second class.

• A common misconception: "If you paint what you think is good, you're top-notch."

  • You've got your logic backwards.
  • Paint only what you think is good and often die unappreciated.
    • school (position) hard to enter (get)

• I'm trying to find the source of this because I remember seeing it in something, but I haven't found it.

  • Pointing out that it is Fernando Pessoa.

    • A first-rate poet says what he actually feels, a second-rate poet says what he thinks he feels, and a third-rate poet says what he thinks he must feel

    • Quite similar.
    • I guess I read someone else's modification/explanation of this as the original story, and that further denatured it for me.

• Third-rate consultants speak by example

• Second-rate consultants speak with data.

• Leading consultants speak with their hearts.

  • Discontinuous growth is not an extension of fact.

    • Jun Kuikei

Related Topics. - Pleasing the masses is evil. - The world is you, isn't it?

Other examples of trisection humans - Great people talk about ideas.

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