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Learning to be a professional in most areas of expertise will likely find you experiencing extended periods of angst and anxiety what with all the new vocabulary, new protocols, and new ways of considering people as people. Learning to become a landscape architect, architect, or interior designer is no different. But, it doesn’t have to be uncomfortable. Learning the design skills particular to your chosen profession is an easy, comfortable experience once you realize you have dealt with design problem solving throughout your life.
What with all the new design vocabulary and seeming ways to see land and life, I bought into my professor’s response to my question as to what the formula was to doing design. He never said it directly, but I was made to believe I had yet to experience design problem solving, that the learning process would test and build my logic as a designer, and that it would be worth it. Looking back over the 50+ years it has been worth it. But all along the way, and especially as an undergraduate student I was plagued by bouts of anxiety, self-doubt, and seeming disbelief in my ability to become a designer. Yet, underlying all those years and semesters of disquiet was the belief that this learning process could be easier, more comfortable, and oh my God, fun.