This is a great and courageous interview, thank you. My father was a physicist who loved poetry, and he firmly believed that you should learn a thing that is NOT your passion, because you'll always do your passion. He'd point out that many scientists are also artists. Of course I rebelled, majored in art, and have (a) struggled financial…
This is a great and courageous interview, thank you. My father was a physicist who loved poetry, and he firmly believed that you should learn a thing that is NOT your passion, because you'll always do your passion. He'd point out that many scientists are also artists. Of course I rebelled, majored in art, and have (a) struggled financially most of my life, and (b) never really committed to the art, because I was always exhausted by jobs that were not what I wanted to be doing but needed the money - yet never reached a serious professional level with any of them because they were, ahem, not my thing. Lots of reasons I made bad choices and couldn't commit to one thing or the other, always had a foot out the door, but I wish I'd listened to my dad. He would have loved seeing this point of view and agreed with it. Now the inequality part - that is truly groundbreaking for me, as all my friends seem to think I'm just not trying hard enough to "market myself" as an artist.
This is a great and courageous interview, thank you. My father was a physicist who loved poetry, and he firmly believed that you should learn a thing that is NOT your passion, because you'll always do your passion. He'd point out that many scientists are also artists. Of course I rebelled, majored in art, and have (a) struggled financially most of my life, and (b) never really committed to the art, because I was always exhausted by jobs that were not what I wanted to be doing but needed the money - yet never reached a serious professional level with any of them because they were, ahem, not my thing. Lots of reasons I made bad choices and couldn't commit to one thing or the other, always had a foot out the door, but I wish I'd listened to my dad. He would have loved seeing this point of view and agreed with it. Now the inequality part - that is truly groundbreaking for me, as all my friends seem to think I'm just not trying hard enough to "market myself" as an artist.