Ziggy Stardust lives on.
The Rocket Man embarked upon his last journey from earth.
Thinking of Bowie while watching Clapton play in a video, I wondered what makes such people what they are.
The word I ended with is genius: these people have genius.
What is this genius?
I reflected on this for a while, trying to understand genius (not easy as I am not one) and trying to make a long issue brief.
Ultimately, I think that genius is a combination of many things; these things come together in a person and that person stands out: globally, universally.
More to the point, that person brings together all these elements and that is what makes that person stand out, globally, universally.
Others may have elements and do not bring them together - or not to a similar degree.
Here are some of the elements I thought of:
- They have the music inside them
- They have or acquire sufficient technical expertise to express this music to the world
- They have perception of how we want to hear music
- They are not afraid to immerse themselves into world and do their thing
- They are not afraid of reflecting, identifying, and creating or implementing their thing
- The times are receptive
- These people are perceptive and intuitive: perceptive to respond to their times and intuitive, allowing heart & mind to work together
- They have the competence to attract the right people around them and the foresight to distance themselves from the wrong people
- Create the right events
- Be fearless in doing things
- Be THEMSELVES at all times
- Recognise themselves and their calling
- Follow their intuition and their calling
- Overcome their fears - sublimate their shortcomings, let their qualities flow
Not easy to fit a genius inside a brief post!
