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Get over a break-up
The written article is a great synthesis of advice I've found scatted all over the web.
The video of a teen explaining the information is a little weird, but that's the internet for you.

Maria Brophy wrote a blog about this question and it sparked a logical approach to this question.
(If you want to read her post, click here
Assuming art is needed for society, then should artists be paid?
They should, because it gives them more time to hone their craft. It gives us incentive to keep creating and go through school, because we can see it will eventually pay off. It breeds competition and competition breeds a certain standard. So much of art history is created by artists who either figured out a way to prioritize art or to prioritize making money so they can eventually create art. Going back to the idea that it takes 10,000 hours to hone a craft, how does the math work out on this?
To make it fair the amount of hours dedicated on work are the same.
If I spent 40 hours a week serving tables and 20 hours a week making art it would take me 10 and a half years to reach the 10,000 hour goal.
If I spent 60 hours a week helping a graphics design company it would take me 3 and half years to reach the 10,000 hour goal.
So it would take about a third as long to achieve my goal if anyone gave me the chance to develop my art.

Right now, artists pay to go to school, usually working another job. We develop portfolios to show the world in order to market ourselves. All this work, so we can maybe have a chance at the same handful of jobs. A few luck out and end up in galleries, others go to grad school to either become teachers or compete for gallery shows. The only area demand is increasing is graphics design & maybe blogs.

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."
William James

Live through enough to genuinely appreciate what you have. Stay around positive people or learn how to not let others get you down. Exercise, diet, meditation, doing what you love, being with who you love, putting needs before wants...

Fact I learned in 2011:
It takes 10,000 hours to master any skill.
( quantified that is: )
So, to master any skill you need to spend time on it. If you want to be good at anything the time to start is now or as soon as possible. Here are a few things to make it easier: do what you love, find something you can profit off of, & build off of what you already have or know. If you make money from the skill you are building, the more time you will have to get good at it. If you love what you are doing, then you are more willing to put time into it. The more you can build off what you already know, the more time you have already spent building the skill and the closer you are to attaining the 10,000 hours needed to master it.

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
Buddha

Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/buddha_2.html#ixzz1iM332L49

Why I'm almost exactly like most people:
I want to have people think I'm: [insert positive attributes].
but I'm really [insert negative attributes].
I have the exact same set of needs and a way for meeting them.
Maybe you are higher or lower, that doesn't matter.
I have a mix of failures and successes.
I have my own personality, due to a mix of genes and experiences.
Stress is difficult at times.
I care about those close to me.
I have a hard time understanding those different from myself.
I suffer for what I want & need.
I'd help someone I knew was suffering, if I knew how.
There is what I know based on theory, based on fact, based on logic, based on feelings and based on experiences and whatever else might be out there.
...etc.

Why being rich is easier than being poor.
I don't mean getting rich, that has become harder.

If you have losses with wealth it means you have a tax deduction.

If you have losses when poor it means you are homeless.

If you are rich and have nice stuff, people might envy you, steal from you or respect you.

If you are poor and have nice stuff, you live in America and lucked out at good will.

If you are rich and have an illness, it is a setback to overcome.

If you are poor and have an illness, you are probably struggling to keep a roof.

If you give up your wealth for poverty, people admire you.

If you give up your poverty for wealth, people also admire you.

Being kinder to your own kids. Bullies are often bullied by someone else, either a parent or sibling. Every bully I have known has had a bigger bully pestering him/her. The next line of defense is teaching your kid to be social, intelligent and to stand up for themselves. So basically start with teaching young adults relationship skills, less abusive adults will equal less abusive kids. Never heard of kind parents with a horrible bully as a kid, unless the kid has serious behavioral issues or is friends with bullies.

It seems that way. I have a few old friends and the people in the support group are all very close.