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🗓️ 4 September 2017
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0:00.0 | As Michelangelo said, if people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't |
0:10.1 | seem so wonderful after all. |
0:14.9 | And that's the thing about getting great. |
0:16.8 | That's the thing about being an artist of such caliber that you're remembered for hundreds |
0:21.8 | of years after your death. |
0:23.7 | It is backbreaking work. |
0:25.5 | It is a blinding amount of effort. |
0:27.2 | And isn't about natural talent. |
0:29.2 | That myth that some people are born with something that we celebrate so much is just that. |
0:37.0 | A myth. |
0:38.2 | You're born a lump of flesh. |
0:39.2 | You can't hold your own head up. |
0:40.4 | You may have predispositions, but that is a long way from actually crafting your ability |
0:47.4 | until the point where it looks like magic. |
0:50.2 | And that's the beauty of artistry, isn't it? |
0:53.4 | That it's so unbelievable that you're more willing to believe that it was God given, |
0:59.8 | that they were anointed with it than that they just worked their ass off. |
1:04.9 | But the truth is, every one of the greats, no matter how much natural talent they were |
1:10.5 | born with, they're remembered because they worked. |
1:15.2 | They're remembered because they did so much work. |
1:19.2 | And that's in that work. |
1:21.1 | Is hardship. |
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