How can you improve your artistic making and DIY practice? As I make some convention-defying DIY shelves, I share 14 principles, or meta tips, that have helped me supercharge my experience of making and skills at DIY and upcycling. These are tips & tricks for beginners and experienced wood and metalworkers alike, that will allow you to learn techniques MUCH FASTER.

Here's an index that might help if you want to recap a principle:

1 Perception Shift 01:08
2 Projects That Make You 03:39
3 Define Your Playground - Limitations Can Make You STRONG 06:07
4 Be an Artisan of Risk 09:42
5 Excitement, enthusiasm and the "What If...?" Question 14:55
6 The Fail Rail & Having Confidence 17:16
7 Smell the Roses on a Micro Scale 22:13
8 Attention Beyond "I" 26:01
9 Collaborate 27:39
10 Give Us THIS Day Our DAILY Bread - Don't Worry About Tomorrow's Bread 29:25
11 On Being a Perpetual Beginner & Playing! 31:07
12 It Is So. It Cannot Be Otherwise 33:38
13 Shipping 35:11
14 Don't Saw Sawdust 37:17

These 14 principles have helped to improve my creativity, output and enjoyment across all types of making and I sincerely hope one or two or them do the same for you friend! If so let me know in the comments below!

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References:

Carnegie, Dale 1948 How to stop Worrying and Start Living
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly 1990 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
@jimmydiresta - see his youtube channel    / jimmydiresta  
Donaldson, Fred O. 1985 Playing by Heart: Vision and Practice of Belonging
Gauntlett, David 2011 Making is Connecting
Godin, Seth - a good book to start his stuff is 2012 Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Ingold, Tim 2011 Being Alive
James, William 1879: Are We Automata?
James, William 1884, What is an Emotion? in Mind
Le Guin, Ursula K. 1986 Bryn Mawr Commencement Address
Picciuto, David @Make_Something channel    / make_something  
Pye, David 1968 The Nature and Art of Workmanship
Soar, Tim - his instrument making website - https://timsoar.com
Smith, Adam 1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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Music:
"White" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY