No One Was Born a Professional
“What do you want to be in the future?”
This is my least favourite question. It’s confusing. I don’t like to hear it. Because I don’t know the answer to give. What do I want to be in the future? How about a worker? Yes, that’s vague, but don’t come telling me to be more specific. Why? Because I don’t know what tomorrow holds. I might work at the fuel station tomorrow. I probably can go register to re-write the papers I failed in high school four times.
Good morning to you too. How are you doing?
Now, you have not read my article before this one, you should read it. It’s short. I wrote about art being a process. Today, I’m going to let you know your favourite artist was not born a professional.
Now, look at this. Why did our parents put us through school? Because to them, they had a firm belief that if they put their children (us) through school, they would be rich. Oh trust me, schooling to most of our parents was never about education, even you know that. It’s about being rich. It is a training process, not the training process.
Our parents had to go through a different system. I’m from Ghana and Ghana is not so old. A few decades ago, people did not like school but were brought up in the system of apprenticeship, where you learn a trade or skill under a master to become a master one day. I love this system of training compared to the schooling system.
Anyway, this is what this article is about. You’re probably thinking, what?
To be a master in anything, you have to go through a learning process and that learning process is what shapes you to become like your favourite artist.
Remember, you are an artist and also is your next-door neighbor.
If you think you have lost access to your creativity, then this book is probably for you. I call it, Reclaim Your Creativity. This is your breakthrough process to recovering the spark you lost.
Never stop learning. Keep working. Keep getting better.
