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When I started self-taught design in 2013–in vocational high school, I remembered that learning resources with the Indonesian language are very few. Some examples there are Jurus Grafis that managed by Richard Fang, Jaka Zulham, and majuter.us by Leo Ari Wibowo. But unfortunately, all of the websites I mentioned is no longer active.

The first keyword in mastering something is practice, but practicing is actually not enough.

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When I started self-taught design in 2013–in vocational high school, I remembered that learning resources with the Indonesian language are very few. Some examples there are Jurus Grafis that managed by Richard Fang, Jaka Zulham, and majuter.us by Leo Ari Wibowo. But unfortunately, all of the websites I mentioned is no longer active.

One year later, in 2014, when I was in the second year of high school, at that time, there was an English class. The teacher gives the task to tell in front of the class our hobbies. I told to everyone in front of the class, that my hobby is designing in Photoshop for 8 hours every week because I heard it took 1000 hours for someone to master something.

At that time, I was thrilled to design in Photoshop because of the strong desire to participate and win in a competition. Although Photoshop always not responding after 2 hours 😅. Understandably, the laptop at that time was only a laptop with 2GB RAM, with a Core 2 Duo processor, I borrow from my Dad when I was in 7th grade. Thanks, Dad! Even though the laptop eventually became my personal laptop until I graduated from vocational high school.

Back in English class, I remember very well when the teacher commented on what I said. He said:

 

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