‘Smoke and Mirrors’ – My Son’s Way Back

A few month’s ago, I read this in UCB*

‘Tenacity is the hallmark of all successful people.  They keep trying, keep learning and keep moving forward.  They win the battle in their minds and then it
overflows into what they do’.

It wasn’t too long ago when I wrote my post ‘Write Your Dream but Don’t Kill the Creativity‘ in which I expressed my thoughts on the writer’s paradox of wanting to keep the dream alive by writing a book for publication (which is my dream) but at the same time not letting our creativity fall by the way-side.

As an another example of this, I wrote about my son’s experience of pursuing his dream of writing, recording and performing his own music but how studying a professional musicianship degree killed his creativity and his dream.

Almost.  For a time.

Over the next few years he continued…