truly gifted and inspirational work often comes from people who have experienced extreme hardships and difficulties. these people find that the very act of expressing themselves is a challenge, yet their perseverance is shown in the final product.
Jimi Hendrix played a right handed guitar, and he was a lefty. He did that because he grew up so dirt poor that the only place that sold guitars was a pawn shop he had to walk to, and they only had a right handed guitar. by playing the guitar in that way, he developed his style.
Ray Charles went blind before he was a teenager.
Adele wrote her album ‘21’ after breaking up with her boyfriend. She won an Oscar for ‘Skyfall’ the same year she won the Grammy for ‘21’.
William Shakespeare was a traveling performer in the Middle Ages. He was pretty much working class until his talents were recognized. His plays are about life, and he used the medium of his choosing to tell them.
There is NOTHING that you cannot do. Nothing.
Your brain is a problem solving device. That is the main function of the human brain: to figure out solutions to the problems with which it is presented.
That does NOT mean you NEED to be unhappy in order to create.
It means that WHEN you are unhappy, USE IT. When you are Happy, use it.
Use your life experiences to inform your creativity.
And when people tell you to stop what you are doing or change, keep doing it until they shut up and offer you money to own some of your work.
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