I subscribe to the Tanglepatterns.com Newsletter. Several days a week I get the newsletter and often there is a new tangle pattern to check out. I always click on the link and look at the pattern. Sometimes I love it or think it’s okay. Other times I don’t really care for the pattern at all — for whatever reason I just don’t like it.
Inevitably when I initially react poorly I will end up seeing an effective and beautiful usage of it somewhere. This has happened on more than one occasion prompting me to ask why?
The more strong the dislike the more determined I am to work with the pattern. Test it out. Draw it. Alter it. Shade it in different ways. Do as many variations of it as I can to uncover more about the pattern. All of this is done in an effort to really understand and explore. Often the very patterns I have the strongest dislike of initially are the ones I end up liking. Using. Finding them very effective.
Just like the patterns, people can be just the same. Someone that we think we know, think we don’t have anything in common with, think we don’t like, can end up being someone who is exactly the person we need to know.