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Tag Archives: Vulnerability
Do You Really Want to Understand?
Before you can begin to understand anything, in depth, at a fundamental level, where you are so well-versed in the subject matter that you can begin to gain genuine insights, you have to pass through a scary and somewhat humiliating … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artists, Belief, Courage, Fraud, Ignorance, Insight, Integrity, Intellectual Honesty, Learning, Orthodoxy, Tradition, Understanding, Vulnerability
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Depleted
Can you create yourself to death? Is it possible to try so hard, for so long, to reinvent yourself and to produce creative things, of quality, that you perish in the process? Everything you make takes energy. If you keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist, Career, Courage, Creativity, Depletion, Diligence, Energy, Exhaustion, Focus, Heart, Obligations, Priorities, Responsibilities, Self Improvement, Sustenance, Value, Vulnerability
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The Social Media Curtain
It was supposed to make everyone everybody else’s friend. It was touted as the solution to growing fragmentation and a step toward social cohesion. It might have even been the ascent of the first wrung of the ladder toward true … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artists, Authenticity, Beauty, Blogging, Collaboration, Confidence, Courage, Criticism, Depression, Fear, Frustration, Honesty, Humanity, Ideas, Imagination, Inspiration, Integrity, Intimacy, Love, Money, Music, Musician, Musicians, Originality, Painters, Painting, Passion, Privacy, Quality, Song Writing, Songwriting, Stress, Success, Surveillance, Vulnerability, Writers, Writing
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Why Do We Bother?
What fuels your art and creativity? Can you analyse your artistic impulse and find the well spring from which it issues? In short, given how hard it is to create great art, how much time it takes, how much skill … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artists, Beauty, Create, Difference, Diversity, Edify, Encourage, Enlighten, Imagine, Imperfection, Inspire, Invent, Motivation, Perfection, Survival, Vulnerability
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Having the Courage to Fail
I read a blog, this morning, about psychopaths. In this article, they reckoned that you could spot a psychopath by a number of tell-tale characteristics. These included changing persona and leaving people that had invested their emotions, love and even finances in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Ambition, Artists, Courage, Failure, Fear, Psychopaths, Vulnerability
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Pressure
I’m angry and sad at the same time, this morning. I opened up facebook only to witness the spectacle of a promising young artist, with bags of potential and who could have a very long and successful career, in total … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artists, Career, Freshness, Love, Management, Mercy, Musicians, Originality, Pressure, Promotion, Quality, Record Companies, Stress, Vulnerability
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Beauty and Survival
It seems like I have been encountering a lot of interesting videos lately. This one, by Denis Dutton, postulates a Darwinian theory of beauty. Denis holds that an appreciation of beauty is universal, not cultural, or merely in the eye … Continue reading
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The Wholehearted Artist
Recently, I was introduced to a video by a very wise friend. It was one of those moments where you are given it at exactly the time you need it most, when you are most receptive to it and when … Continue reading
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