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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Listener Favorites: Jeeyoon Kim | How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jeeyoon Kim is a professional concert pianist who has achieved things that many classical musicians could only dream of, having performed in venues like Carnegie Hall and Stradivari Society. Jeeyoon Kim shares the personal story of her life and how, in spite of seemingly impossible odds, she was able to compose the life of her dreams.

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0:00.0

As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting

0:04.6

some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical

0:09.4

strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve

0:14.4

personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get

0:18.5

recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.

0:24.5

What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Again, that's

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unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.

0:32.1

I'm grateful that I never heard that I was prodig. And in some ways, I feel, ah, I wish I was a prodigy.

0:38.8

Wouldn't it be easier?

0:39.7

And at the end, I think it's easier not to be prodigy.

0:44.8

And actually, we don't need a prodigy.

0:47.2

Actually, someone who is a love of music and continue making into something organic as they grow as a person. And, you know,

0:58.0

because when I went to art high school, we're like already like 20 or 100 of pianists in

1:04.7

Korea, which were playing very much advanced repertoire. They could be very much like a professional pianist level. At that point,

1:12.8

they were already playing 15 years of their life in piano. Where are they now? I don't know. I don't

1:19.7

see them anywhere. You know? I mean, at that point, I think everybody could call majority of them

1:25.4

or a prodigy. They were a prodigy. But where are they?

1:28.9

But I think they're burned out. First taste of failure, they gave up because they were not really

1:35.2

create the environment that they actually, the failure is more of the taste of this field than the

1:43.3

success. We have created what the sense of this field than the success.

1:44.6

We have created what the sense of success is, not by other people, but from within.

1:54.6

I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast,

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