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the talent circus (or how to make yourself a tough act to follow)
It’s a circus out there. Everywhere you go there are talented, crazy people. Everywhere you look those talented, crazy people are astounding everyone else with how crazy and talented they are....
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talent… and your identity
There are as many ways to define yourself as there are… Well… People. That’s a lot of ways to define yourself. And a lot of ways to get it wrong. But what if there was a way to define yourself that...
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talent… and giving back
If talent is a gift, isn’t it time you gave it back? I don’t mean returning your talent to where it came from: I mean giving back to someone else, in some other way. Talent has a tremendous capacity to...
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the stages of a dancer
Every dancer goes through stages. The Hesitant Dancer: This is the stage where you aren’t quite sure if you want to dance or not. You haven’t really connected with it yet. And no part of you seems to...
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respect your talent (or- why not to dumb yourself down)
Talent always commands a lot of respect. From people you know, sometimes from people you don’t know, from those who teach you, and sometimes from those who in one way or another learn from you. Pretty...
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when your talent disappoints (or one of ‘those’ days)
Everyone’s heard it a million times: failure is inevitable. But people don’t often take the time to distinguish between the different kinds of failure. There’s failing at tests and standards set by...
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your talent and (who you were) (who you are)
You know that weird feeling you get when suddenly you stop and you look back on your life, on a certain time in your life, and you think: %*$# what on earth *was* I? Yup. That’s usually the feeling you...
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choreographing your life
Life isn’t so different from dancing and dancing isn’t so different from life. At least that’s what most people say. And they’re right. It’s possible to live your life like a choreographed dance. Step...
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talent… and your destiny
It begins uncomfortably. As all good stories do. Once upon a time there was an exceptionally talented person (who didn’t know it), and they started to feel… a little odd. Cue music. Something wasn’t...
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dance and dream (on and on)
Dancers are different. They just are. They’re not better. They’re not quicker or stronger. They’re not more gifted or graceful. But they are different- because they choose to be. But dancers are also...
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