Blowing Your Own Trumpet!!

Being good at your work counts but being able to showcase that work is equally important too. This is especially true when your job is your art or vice-versa – your art is your job.

Consider an artist who creates mind-blowing work in a dungeon but never displays it to anyone. If that art is also his livelihood he will never sell anything and soon run out of money and possibly cease to exist and so will his art.

Compare this to a scenario where a person creates good work (not low quality) and knows how to sell it. The good worker may get only half of what a mind-blowing artist would get (if he sold) but he will live to create more art, learn and improve upon it.

Not trying to undermine the importance of great work, but showcasing your work is part of the Genius. You may create the sharpest knives in the world but if you are not able to convince somebody to use them they will eventually rust and become useless.

The Genius not only does great work but takes pride in showcasing it equally well.

Inspiration From A Cardboard Arcade

There are only a few blogs that I truly read and follow like this and this. Mainly because instances of useful, interesting and really inspirational stuff on the internet are very few and far between like needles in a haystack; rest all is just clutter. Sometimes when you feel exasperated after of hours of surfing, sifting through the noise to find something worthwhile; you stumble upon something that is both heartwarming and inspirational.

This is the story of 9 year old Caine Monroy who created his own Game Arcade using cardboards in his father’s shop. I am not sure what made me feel good – the creative genius of the kid, his enterprise or the knowledge of the fact that he has managed to collect  $205997.2, when last checked, in donations for his effort. When even grown-ups feel reluctant to go ahead and start their own gig and follow their dreams, here’s a small kid who believed in his idea, persevered and worked hard.

Here’s to the kid in all of us – Let’s follow our dreams as they sure come true!!