Sorry it has been so long...but I don't know if anyone reads this anyway.
I've recently been reading "Veronika Decides to Die", another book by Paulo Coelho, which deals with the question of what is it to be crazy. I also recently had a conversation with my sister-in-law and wife about why it is that the people that create the thing that change our world (art, music, science, etc.) are always deemed to be crazy. I offered the hypothesis that perhaps it is that they see the world differently than "normal" people and that allows them to create things that make us marvel. My sister-in-law responded that perhaps it is that their craft and the fact that they poured so much of their soul into it caused them to "go insane" (for lack of a better term). Anyone have any thoughts?
So why is it that some people do things that change the world and some never do anything of worth? What is the difference, or the deciding factor that separates the two groups?
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Don’t worry Travis, I read this.
I think that most successful creative people will admit that what separates them from others is mostly chance. There are doubtless many unrealized creative geniuses among the masses who never get there day in the sun do to circumstances largely beyond there control. Creative types can stick out however because our society generally demands conformity, which is the opposite of creativity. Even in the Church we find this, our art is generally bland and correlated, when someone tries to mix it up, like say director Richard Dutcher, the reaction is divisive and passionate. The Church and society as a whole prefer not to deal with this kind of art, which is difficult to uniformly control.
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