I'm grateful that I never heard that I was prodigy and in some ways I feel I wish I was prodigy

wouldn't it be easier and in the end I think it's easier not to be prodigy and actually we don't

need a prodigy actually someone who's in love of music and continue making into something organic

as they grow as a person and you know because when I went to art high school where like

already like 20 or 100 of pianists in Korea which were playing very much advanced repertoire

they could be very much like professional pianist level at that point they were already playing

15 years of their life in piano where are they now I don't know I don't see them anywhere you know

I mean at that point I think everybody could call majority of them or prodigy they were a prodigy

but where are they but I think they're burned out they first taste of failure they gave up

because they were not really create the environment that they actually the failure is more of the

taste of this field than the success they have created what the sense of success is not by other people

but from within

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and thank you for having me here it is my pleasure to have you here so I found out about your work

by way of your publicist who told me about your book whenever you're ready

which is about you know composing the life that you want which the whole idea of

using composition as a metaphor for life really struck me and you know as a former musician

I knew that I wanted to talk to you because I figured there was so much we could learn from you

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