Human Enough to Learn Mistakes

Welcome to 2020.

For every work that healed anyone, there’s an artist it broke.

And it ain’t your mistake for wanting to heal people through your efforts.

Either face up to reality or myself, I had to realise that often the best ideas spring from flawed ones, and had to mend myself through the means of heavy patience to get shit done before reaping the rewards.

These experiences came with the bad times, which gave way to the good times I am on right now.

By large, it frames how one stays engaged from the growing pains of the world, and still be able to relate all of this amid chaos.

All in all, I had to appreciate my past. Regardless of the suffering of my own flaws.

Glad I framed my struggles on a metamorphosis.

You know why?

WRITING GREAT CONTENT IS MY AGENCY.

This idea comes from embracing leadership from a broken place. You lead yourself out from those bad times, to give way to your metamorphosis.

Your metamorphosis irreversibly reorganises the elements of personality, identity/mindset, and social reality. This idea is rooted in letting go in faith while gliding through life with grace.

You embrace your wounds, your brokenness, in a different lens, to poetically manifest the mending of your own good times.

Ever heard of kintsugi?

Kintsugi (金継ぎ, “golden joinery”), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い, “golden repair”), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

This is how it began in the 15th century.

One theory is that kintsugi may have originated when Japanese shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa sent a damaged Chinese tea bowl back to China for repairs in the late 15th century. When it was returned, repaired with ugly metal staples, it may have prompted Japanese craftsmen to look for a more aesthetic means of repair.^[9] Collectors became so enamored of the new art that some were accused of deliberately smashing valuable pottery so it could be repaired with the gold seams of kintsugi.

The philosophy of it is the impermanence and imperfection of an object doesn’t represent the end lifecycle of that object’s usage. Rather, it is an essential moment in its history.

The flaws of its shape aren’t hidden from inspection but blazed with golden significance.

Which brings me to how I feel fractured every time I post something.

To sort what I might post, I go through transpersonal experiences.

Symbolising repair requires transformation.

In other words, you don’t have yourself until you make yourself strong from broken places.

Writing from a strong place can easily unpack from whom I learn the most and why.

What makes me say that?

Well, relating to my last post, with the help of certain key players, I learn how to turn my words into gold. The words I use are someone else’s golden repair whilst I break myself to wield the mighty pen.

In this case, the mighty pen is my agency.

With it, it doesn’t take a genius to learn how to wield the mighty pen.

It simply takes somebody who is willing to do the work and who is willing to learn from those who came before him/her.

That’s it.

Learn from those who came before you, and then do the work. 

How do you learn from those who came before you?

Easy. You just let them teach you everything they know. That’s it.

From A to Z; from nobody to somebody; from illiterate to mighty.

All you ever have to do is read the books and then put the wisdom into action.

Take those actions and translate them into a movement that gets the most out of life.

Do you have meaning in your life?

Meaning is what keeps us moving forward even when times are tough.

Meaning is that feeling you get when you positively engage with the world.

You can find meaning in your family, your community, and if you’re lucky, even in your work.

But what if you don’t have any of those?

What if you don’t have opportunities to create meaning?

You’d end up feeling helpless like you’re floundering around without direction or any real reason to move ahead.

You might even feel hopeless or lost or confused.

I mean, why are we here if we have no meaning in our life?

What if I told you the society we live in is systematically stripping away all meaning in our lives?

And that even if you have family, community, and good work already – those too are at risk?

You’d probably be outraged, right?

You’d feel burned. You’d be pissed off. You’d be frustrated. It would feel like you were the target of a massive conspiracy designed to grind you away to dust without a second thought.

And you know what?

You’d be right. And you wouldn’t be alone.

 

Treat your time like wealth

 

You see, the human being has only one real source of wealth and this one source of wealth is infinitely valuable.

No, it is not money.

What is your #1 (and ONLY) source of wealth?

It is TIME.

TIME is all you have in this world.

Time is your birthright, it is your source of wealth, and it is the only thing in which you possess that is of value.

In time, all things can be done.

Unless of course, you don’t “have the time” because you were too busy trading your real value for an hourly/weekly/monthly wage.

Unfortunately for most people, they trade their true value – an unlimited value – and they never think twice about it.

Too bad for them, but lucky for you because you are about to learn the secret of making money.

The reality is that no intelligent man or woman trades their precious time for money.

Instead, they know the secret of building real wealth is to simply do the work one time and then get paid forever.

And how do you do the work one time and get paid forever?

Ah, that is the million-dollar secret.

I will give you a little hint…

WORDS.

If you learn to use words properly you can learn to harness the power of wealth.

Now, if you don’t want to work a job (which is what slaves do) you have only a couple of other options…

You could, say, rob somebody of their money at knifepoint. Not a nice thing to do to somebody, and a very poor way to make money.

Don’t you know what they say?

The PEN is mightier than the sword.

If you learn how to wield the pen you will NEVER hurt for money ever again.

AND you can make money on your own terms and keep a clean conscience.

If only you knew how to wield the words that bring wealth…

 

As a struggling artist in broken places

 

Today, our creative essence is a lifeline that has not been materialised before.

You can become inseparable from work, just as it is your business to create art imitating reality, you are reality becoming art in and of itself.

Through this art of yours, it does not matter what it is. Creativity can assume formlessness in many things to utilise exposure, and that’s all it matters.

Whatever mode of a creative outlet you use, you create art with the attention to the method 1st and the artist’s personal satisfaction 2nd. Financial gains are possible (especially if you are talented), but they are not the initial motivation.

To the 1st point, the method. We know this because there are many different mediums of artistic expression. You can write, paint, sculpt, sing, rap, etc. You can run, jump, swing a bat, throw a ball, etc.

We choose a method that suits our personality and interests. People with athlete level physical ability don’t always choose the sport with the highest payday. If the artistic expression was always chosen with money in mind, every artist would learn to write screenplays and sing pop music.

This is not to say that there aren’t elements of the business that will help your art succeed, but the moment personal expression takes a backseat to commercial motivation, you have moved further into business than art.

Time makes the artistic being in you to evolve. Who you are today by past life-affirming changes really upholds you to always remember where you’re heading to in life.

You’re human enough to learn from mistakes. Most people have this mistake that life and business are not intertwined.

So much that if they stopped, the business stops too without acknowledgement in their awareness. The business rots as they experience a spiritual death to become the living dead. A rotting business tells you that the moment you forgot who are you, to yourself, is the moment you bring falsehood to life.

The falsehood of selling your soul for profit.

Look.

Just because your hustle breaks you down so that you can build yourself, does not mean you view yourself as a broken object. Rather, being resourceful to create the highest quality product you can. Whatever you’re going to do, try to be the best at it and make sure you get better every day.

Because you know you’re from the source, and you’re just a re-source to your own enthusiasms, you show the total understanding of your business. It forces you to fix deficiencies in your ability you’ve ignored because people weren’t paying attention to it.

And outside of your business, art will make you better at business because it forces you to develop craftsmanship, hone expression, and appreciate the attention to detail.

Ideally, you CAN be both business-minded and be an artist.

When you create with the intention of profiting, you move closer into the business. That’s why many commercial artists are devoid of depth.

An artistic skill once mastered, is marketing in and of itself.

Through that, you can immortalise your art.

Love art in yourself, not yourself in other people’s art if you really want to be immortal.

Want to know why?

You are reality becoming art in and of itself.

Just as much art imitates reality, it imitates your life essence and creative essence to become one.

Remember what I said about struggling artists in broken places?

You become inseparable from your business and you’re intertwined to it.

You are your business.

You live and breathe it out.

You lead yourself to create meaning in your business, and how it impacts others is solely dependent on your ability to create an opportunity.

The opportunity to create a strong meaningful life in the ruins of the world.

Without this opportunity, you would not treat time as wealth.

You would treat it as something to waste.

And right now, I have no time to waste.

I have the time to use my words consciously, and I will not fall from this idea in a long time.

Because this idea is the very foundation of my metamorphosis.

And in it, there are layers of agencies to be discovered.

The more there are, the stronger you get in broken places.

As long as the bad times give way to the better ones, you’re not wasting time.

You’re building its depth of value within yourself, so it can manifest outside you poetically.