Art’s paradox

This song (see artist and title at top of photo), while sitting on our patio, inspired this post and the video below…
49-second video: Thank you Joni, for the impromptu inspiration.

The paradox of Art is that art is a circus.

It’s a freak show.

You go to the freak show to see the thing no one’s seen before.

Freakish attracts human attention.

Humans are curious.

Freakish is exciting.

Art?

Totally.

Who knew?

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.think .differently

page with five geometric shapes
Without context this is stupid. With context, it’s .brilliant

.think .differently

That simple two-word image says everything.

It preaches what it practices.

Who puts a period before a word?

Why would a person do this?

It’s .stupid

When you change what you see, what you see changes.

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Why do you say that?

Glacier National Park
Glacier National park (GNP). Lake McDonald.

The goal of being different comes with the risk of being misunderstood.

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Popular metrics don’t work for the majority

Baltimore Hotel on raining morning
Yesterday near sunrise.
College President
College President yesterday welcoming 120 prospective students (and 12 incoming freshman) and roughly 150 parents.

Reminded our Son yesterday that his early decision and acceptance (and incredible merit-based scholarship) in December puts him in a group of less than 10-percent of decisive and less-stressed students (and parents).

We (society) often use popular metrics.

Some High School students never make it in the top 10% of any “normal” and popular metric. This has the potential cumulative effect of inhibiting or eroding self-confidence.

The metric here (this post) is not one that gets talked about, unless you live with me.

Instilling self-confidence should be a top parental priority.

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No Disney Keynote Speaker videos of Disney Institute speaker jeff noel

Disney family tee shirts
Yesterday.

 

No Disney Keynote Speaker videos of Disney Institute speaker jeff noel.

So this has always been an issue.

i like not doing what everyone does.

The downside is that most don’t get it, and worse, most don’t like it.

The pressure to conform is why everyone does it.

So when i talk to organizations and leaders about taking risks, i believe it’s a great strategy to only preach what i practice.

 

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