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🗓️ 13 January 2021
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This week’s conversation is with Henry Fraser, a talented artist, who paints stunning landscapes, animals, portraits, and more.
There’s one caveat -- he draws using his mouth, as an accident years ago left him paralysed from the neck down.
So that would beg the question, how did he learn to paint?
He began by using a stylus on his iPad, which he held using his mouth to draw.
He then taught himself to use a pencil, and then paint, by fixing the utensils required a stick attached to his mouth.
Henry is also an author – he wrote The Little Big Things, which won Non Fiction Book Of The Year by WHSmith.
Losing your ability to move from the shoulders down at age 17 – that’s up there with the most difficult circumstances I can imagine someone having to deal with.
So with that context, I think you can get an idea of why I wanted to speak with Henry.
This conversation is about acceptance, resiliency, and gratitude.
It’s about making the best of a situation, no matter how bad things seem on the surface.
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0:00.0 | Life is much simpler and much happier when you always look at what you can do, not what you can't do. |
0:06.0 | And for me, I guess that's what everything I speak about. |
0:12.0 | Everything I do reduces down to those few lines. And the very final line of the book is just |
0:18.8 | every day is a good day. And I generally believe that in our lives in what we do we can make every day a good day by |
0:29.0 | by just doing certain things that you know we find our own ways but and I found mine but I don't believe we can make every day a good day and I hope that all of you are able to find that and you know it doesn't happen straight away it It's not an overnight thing. It takes time. It takes |
0:46.5 | patience with yourself, patience with others. But it's worth it. Come the end of it, it's worth it. |
0:52.1 | And it might be tough at the start and it will be tough, but stick with the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
1:14.4 | I'm Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training, I'm a high performance psychologist, |
1:18.8 | and the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery. |
1:26.0 | They might not call it that way, but that's essentially what they've done because they are so understanding of what it takes to grow and get better, |
1:36.0 | whether it's in their craft or themselves, |
1:39.1 | that their knowledge and insights are gripping. |
1:42.7 | And that's who is on this show. |
1:45.5 | That's who's on this podcast. |
1:46.8 | The extraordinary's, both in Kraft and of Self. |
1:50.0 | And so if we can get both of those together, |
1:51.6 | we got a real winner of a conversation, |
1:53.3 | and this is one of them today. |
1:55.1 | And so the whole idea, though, is to learn |
1:56.7 | from these extraordinary's so that you can better understand |
2:00.1 | how to invest in your life, for one reason, so that you can help others do the same. |
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