Do you ever feel overwhelmed with information overload? Do the number of choices you face as a creative artist sometimes petrify you while at other times they inspire you?

If you ever find yourself at a loss after spending too much time trying to digest too much information, you can model innovators and artists from other eras to discover some surprising ways that the artistic spirit has turned ugliness into beauty, squeezed solutions out of problems, or laughed the fun out of failure.

Pioneering visual artist Andy Warhol and legendary writer Charles Bukowski serve as springboards for this SOS episode in which JP searches for his own music and meaning in the midst of noise and nonsense.

 

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When in deep water, learn to be a diver…

When you are committed to life-long growth, there is no such thing as failure, only lessons on the way.

When you are committed to success, there is no such thing as rejection, only clarification about where you are headed.

When you are committed to making great music, there are no accidents, just constant adjustment and refinements to make as you follow the Muse.

Just as every misstep is an opportunity to come in to greater alignment with your true path, so every unexpected professional or musical flub can be an invitation to seize the moment and integrate the “mistake” into the business plan, the composition or the improvisation.

When you can let go of the need for everything to go “right,” you open up to the possibilities of everything going well. This is equally true when writing a song, crafting a career path, or growing into a personal relationship.

Join this uplifting episode as JP shares some of his most prized misfortunes, the hidden gifts he received from them, and some of the underlying principles of musicianship he discovered along his winding path.

 

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