TORI BROWN

I tracked my use of time for one week, using this chart time tracker-1ji4hv6 , and what I noticed through doing this exercise, was -for the most part- things that I already knew. I consider myself to be a fairly large creature of habit, and this chart definitely proves that. Each time I wake up, I do the same things: I take my medicine, I do my makeup, I get dressed, I eat breakfast, etc. I eat at roughly the same time everyday and I go to sleep at roughly the same time everyday. I was already aware that I spend most of my time sleeping and watching YouTube, but I don’t see that as an issue or a waste of time. Watching YouTube is not only something that I enjoy doing, but it helps me to relax and reset myself between periods of work. Additionally, I know myself well enough to understand that I need to sleep for at least 7 hours to feel fully alert during the day, and maintain my optimum levels of productivity. I was, however, pleasantly surprised to figure out that I call my mom more than I thought I did. I’m very glad that somewhere subconsciously I prioritize letting her know what I’m doing and that I’m okay.

In high school, I made a conscious decision to focus more on art. I wanted to do this in, what I felt to be, a less serious context. In the past, and even to this day if I’m being totally honest, I have found blank sketchbooks to be daunting. The pages look so beautiful by themselves that I feel that whatever sketch I put in them will ruin them. As, a result of this, I decided to try out a digital medium, instead of a traditional one, as I found that less anxiety inducing. I ended up downloading a free app called sketchbook pro, and drawing on my iPad with my finger. I would take my iPad with me to school everyday, and in between classes I would sit, or walk around, and just create. These drawings are a result of that.

Hamlet, digital, 1024 x 768, 2016

*Snaps*, digital, 1024 x 768, 2016

“Are you Carl, are you really?”, digital, 960 x 755, 2015

Lia, digital, 768 x 1024, 2017

senior year: I choose death, digital, 1024 x 768, 2017

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1. In the aptly named Fortune article What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Artists, the main point of the article is just that, an explanation of qualities and skills that entrepreneurs can learn from artists. However, in the Huffington Post Article, Are Artists Entrepreneurs?, the main point is that the line between artist and entrepreneur is blurring quickly and that both artist and entrepreneur have a great deal to learn from the other.
2. Amit Gupta, author of Are Artists Entrepreneurs? explains that artists can learn to “leverage the many resources available to remove the burdens of doing business as an independent artist” from their “entrepreneurial cousins”.
3. I do agree that artists are entrepreneurs, because most working artists are self-employed freelancers, who require entrepreneurial skills, such as being innovative and marketing themselves.
4. I do agree with the 12 characteristics of artists posed in the article, What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Artists , to a certain extent. I do believe that those characteristics are true in multiple variations  for the majority of artists, but to say that every single artist contains all 12 of those qualities would be an over generalization, because humans are far too complex.
5. I would add that artists are daring, because it is a very brave thing to be an artist in our modern world. I say this, because almost every time I have ever told someone that I wanted to be artist or work in an artistic field or get an artistic degree, I have been told that it would be a waste of time, that I would never make any money, that it would be hopeless. There are so many obstacles to becoming an artist, mentally, physically, etc. that in order to achieve that goal, one must be daring.
6. After reading these two articles, my thoughts are that in order to be a successful entrepreneur or a successful artist, you must be both.

1. According to the grit survey, I scored a 4.25/5  meaning that I am in the 90-99th percentile of others who have taken this survey. I do have grit, but just as everything else in life, it’s something that I can always improve.
2. Some ways that I could increase my grit is to keep a better perspective while working on long-term goals, and to understand that failure is not something to be feared but something to learn from.