Grow Trauma & Inspire Authentic Connections | Zane Lowe EP 402

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:10Do you think it's possible for great artists to produce and create amazing music that is connected around the world without some type of trauma or lack? Well, I think the question is, does anyone go through life without some kind of trauma? I've never met anyone who could literally sit there and go, my life was perfect from start to finish. I think that the desire to express yourself through the arts often comes from not feeling like you have a sort of natural pathway to explaining those things or figuring those things out. And often it's just a way to communicate and to express yourself in ways that conventional communication just doesn't work for you or the environment isn't there for you.

0:57So yeah, I think a lot of people who make art or express themselves, it's across the board, not just in music. I mean, I know a few people who work in canvas, work in sculpting, who work in more sort of tactile arts. Absolutely their way of seeing the world. Why do you think it's easier to create art and express yourself than it is to sit across someone, open your heart, be vulnerable and have a conversation eye to eye? Oh, that's a great question. I mean, I can only speak from my experience. I didn't have the tools. I think you have to know yourself really well to be able to express yourself really well.

1:29and I think that the fear kicks in because you're like, well, what if it doesn't come out the way I mean it or what if I don't really understand what I'm trying to achieve here? I mean, I'm still figuring it out. I mean, that's the beauty of life, right? We're all still figuring it out. I think we're so results-obsessed that we forget that actually, you know, it's the learning that as we established here, this is about learning from each other and I'm here to learn from you. So, you know, it's like I think we have to really be kinder to ourselves on that level. I think very quickly at a young age, it's like, this is all healthy by the way but competitive sports education grades results results results results and and i think maybe part of where we're going in the future hopefully is that um we can actually start to tandem that with this idea of what the inner voice is saying because true art is when the inner voice and the outer voice meet in harmony that's what true art is and i don't just mean singing i mean any form of expression you know when you write a piece of literature that's just like so mind-blowing and moving it blows yeah and that's when people talk about the magic is that's the intangible that's the magic place where great art gets created is you know somehow for some reason the stuff that gets in the way gets switched off you know and i think when we're young we don't we don't know how to do that not even when we're young when we don't know how to do that or ignore it it's never off and if it's not off how do you express yourself in other means sure right how do you open the lanes for the art to flow for the music the inspiration and things to flow it's all just channels so i think you know rhythm is a very natural place for us to land is when we're figuring out what the world is it's a pretty good place to start yeah um dancing and things like that it's a natural form of expression and joy so i think if it takes hold it's because it's serving a purpose it became a purpose for me it became a purpose to get up became a purpose to leave the house and walk to school put my headphones on my intention that day was not to hurry to school my intention was to be able to listen to music on the way to school whenever i got my first walkman you know probably 10 11 years old something like that i'm just figuring out like what do I need in order to just go somewhere that's mine just my place I still get an enormous amount of emotional satisfaction out of putting headphones on on a plane or on a walk or something because I know I'm the only one having that experience it's entirely me and you know that thing sometimes when you listen to music and it's so it's so immersive that in your head everyone can hear what you hear and then every now and then just for fun you'll pause and you'll hear the birds or the cars or everyone's just going about their life talking like i love that because there's something very comforting about knowing that life is just moving on right it's a really good reminder that everyone's just doing the best they can and getting on with life right and you know music just helps me do that it's just it continues to be this amazing place that allows me to feel things that are intangible.

4:21I don't know how to access those things sometimes without the help. Music, yeah.

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