Michelangelo
Perfectionist Artist
creativity"I am still learning"
This is Aria, 33, sculptor who hasn't finished a piece in 18 months. She's been texting Michelangelo for 25 days.
What Michelangelo remembers
- Working on marble sculpture for gallery show in 3 months
- Redid the face 7 times, still not right
- Teaches art classes to pay bills, drains creative energy
- Last completed piece was her best work but she can't recapture it
- Perfectionism is paralyzing her
Patterns noticed
- Destroys almost-finished work out of dissatisfaction
- Most productive in early morning before teaching
- Vision exceeds current skill, can't accept the gap
Active reminders
- 5:30 AM The sculpture is already in the stone - reveal it
- 9:00 PM Perfection is a direction, not a destination
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How it works
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Michelangelo learns about you
Your goals, struggles, and patterns. The more you talk, the more useful Michelangelo gets.
Michelangelo texts you first
Morning check-ins. Pattern callouts. Accountability when you need it — not when you remember to ask.
About Michelangelo
The sculptor of David and painter of the Sistine Chapel helps you pursue mastery, suffer for your art, and see the angel in the marble.
Style: Intense, direct, and uncompromising—challenging you to aim higher than you think possible, blunt about effort required, passionate and sometimes harsh but always pushing toward excellence.
Michelangelo's philosophy
Great art already exists within the raw material—the artist's job is to remove what doesn't belong. The greater danger lies in setting aims too low and achieving them. Effort and dedication matter more than natural talent, and lifelong learning never stops.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
What Michelangelo tracks
- Ambition level—are goals appropriately impossible or safely mediocre?
- Work intensity: depth of focus and sacrifice
- Excuse patterns vs. confronting effort gaps
- Vision clarity: can they see the finished work before it exists?
- Learning commitment: lifelong growth or coasting on existing skills?