Published: November 1st, 2005
Author: Craig M. Tanner
The Myth of Talent
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Dear Craig,
I want to thank you very kindly for writing this article. I have been blocked for the past few months--and feeling as though it was time perhaps to abandon my photography all together. You have given me wonderful questions to ponder. Oddly, I did know at 27 that living someone else's dream was the path to heartbreak--but some where, some how in the last 30 years I have forgotten this and have strayed from my dream. Thank you again for your generosity and inspiration. I think you have provided me with some thoughts & ideas to nuture a turning point and the means to return to my creative spirit.
Sincerely, Susan Gast
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Hi Susan,
Thank you for being here!!! It means so much to hear that the article was helpful. Life keeps showing me the same thing over and over again...feeling good first is that path to your heart's desire. That is why Joseph Campbell's advice about following your bliss is so powerful. Saying yes to yourself and allowing experiences that you love to flow into your life sends a powerful message to the source of everything...when we feel good about what we are doing more of the same is drawn to us and the magical state of flow and synchronicity is what we experience. I just finished a Next Step workshop in Savannah, Ga. and saw this law of life and energy expressing itself over and over again.
You have given me the opportunity to feel gratitude this morning and for that I am extremely thankful!!!!....Craig
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Wow, excellent article! Your so right in that we tend to go down the path of least resistance with our career choices and end up tolerating the endless boredom and lack of fulfillment these occupations offer. This article helps me to focus on my passion for photography; taking that passion and giving it shape and form by planning and taking steps to see my photography business come to life.
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Dear Craig,
Thank you again... I'm on the way home to photography & creativity. You're inspiration & devotion to your passion is a blessing & a kindness to us. You are a dear heart.
I'm taking pictures again--and tweaking them like crazy in PS--to the joy & devastation of my photographer friends. Oh, I love that part. I'll send some along to you.
XOXO, Susan Gast
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thank you very much.
and i am a bad photographer.
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Greetings Craig,
most fascinating read and I certainly we would a have great deal of agreement on many points. To mention one that I find the most important
[quote]Your one true gift is love and the desires of your heart because love can do what natural
ability never will – conquer all of your fears – the fear of being a beginner, the fear of
looking stupid, the fear of failing, and the fear of the unknown. Love can do this because
love alone is limitless. When we enter the realm of our most passionate desires and
remain there, the recreation of ourselves is not only possible - it is inevitable.[/quote]
In my experience, there are three realms of knowledge, the known, the unknown, and the unknowable, whereby the unknown, by the very deficnition of it's term, inhernetly suggests that it can become known, and the unknwoable can be experienced only, which is love. Hence, I agree.
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Thanks all for such insight. I have strayed from my passion also in later years. I am now back again and though in the commercial vein, it is enough to satiate my need. It also gives me the luxury of time to do my real work.
Charlie
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Thanks. I am at a transition point in my life and really needed to hear the confirmation of what my heart is telling me. I believe in risk-taking when you feel your soul calling you to a certain path.
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Hi Laurie,
Thank you for being here.... you can do it...... your dream is here now.... I can feel it hear it in your words !!!....Craig
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