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The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Welcome to the Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma where you’ll receive the mental models, daily routines, and productivity tactics that Robin Sharma has taught to the titans of industry, sports superstars, and elite performers who he has served as a private mentor to for over 31 years. You'll learn how to live a truly world-class life while you accelerate your productivity, grow your leadership, build your business, and scale your impact on the world.
The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Advanced Art Is Always Misunderstood [Before It's Appreciated]
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Being laughed at or criticized or misunderstood is the price of leaving the herd and producing your magic.
Aside from the mastery on the canvas and the genius of the brushstrokes, what makes a work of art by Jean Michel Basquiat worth hundreds of millions and this rough-edges piece worth so little is the signature at the bottom.
Through his prowess, Basquiat made his name worth something. And then he protected his good name so that his greatness would stand the test of time. As all great masters do.
I am a fan of Jean-Michel Basquiat. I just love his graffiti style art. I remember watching a documentary on Jean-Michel Basquiat and one of the people who ran, I believe it was the MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She talked about the fact that initially they wouldn't allow Basquiat's art in the museum. And here's what he was told. His art is not good enough to be in our museum and now if you look at Basquiat his work sells one of them sold for over 100 million dollars Think about Basquiat when you release your magic out in the world. You will be misunderstood, you will be attacked. You will be laughed at, you will be discounted, you must continue at all costs. Let me put it to you this way... if I may, and I want you to really think about this right now, I'm going to challenge you to think about this: I want your faith in your magic to be bigger than your fears so that no matter what stones people throw at you, you will continue until the world understands the beauty that you're bringing to it. There's a Liam Gallagher song that says "high-flying birds get the first arrows". Isn't that true? When you leave the crowd the flock of birds, you're gonna get knocked down quickly, but that's the price of ambition. Makes me also think of Bob Dylan, and I learned this from another documentary I watched, and he said "Don't criticize what you don't understand." Don't criticize what you don't understand. So advanced art is always misunderstood before it's appreciated.