SUMMARY
A respected photographer once told a teenager she wasn't good enough to make it, and that single sentence kept her from picking up a camera for decades. Those words carry a weight far heavier than the person who said them ever intended, and most creative people have heard some version of them, either out loud or in their own head. When she told the photographer she admired that she wanted to become a photographer herself, the answer was flat rejection. Internal resistance is quieter and often worse, the voice asking who you are to call yourself a photographer at all.
TAKEAWAYS
A respected photographer once told a teenager she wasn't good enough to make it, and that single sentence kept her from picking up a camera for decades.
Those words carry a weight far heavier than the person who said them ever intended, and most creative people have heard some version of them, either out loud or in their own head.
When she told the photographer she admired that she wanted to become a photographer herself, the answer was flat rejection.
Internal resistance is quieter and often worse, the voice asking who you are to call yourself a photographer at all.