The Power of Self-Reliance.
Beyond Talent.
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
— Milan Kundera, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’
Can you imagine the fear of working your entire life, I mean multiple decades— for the opportunity to perform your art once in front of the entire world? Imagine the pressure, the expectation, the emotion, the sheer magnitude that inflates itself into the bulging enormity of the moment.
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