Don’t Let Your Own Personal Drummer Drown Out Common Sense

hey there hero it’s David H Lawrence the
17th and I’m gonna be very gentle and
sensitive with this video because it’s
criticism and there is a chance that the
person that I’m talking about will
recognize what his behavior has been
like and I’m just using it to illustrate
a simple point we’re all artists we’ve
been told from the time that we decided
to be performers you’re special
you have a unique perspective you hear
things and see things and grok things
that other people don’t you have the
ability to do things that other people
don’t have you march to the beat of a
different drummer and when you do that
and you’re successful at it you get
rewarded you’re not working in an office
somewhere you’re not working a
blue-collar job you’re doing voiceover
or you’re doing on-camera or I don’t
know what you’re doing you’re you’re
doing something that’s out of the
ordinary I doubt you’d be watching this
video if you weren’t so I’m a member of
a Facebook group that deals with
connections and and group think and
functioning it’s it’s a way for me to
understand how people communicate with
each other and one of the people in the
group is a songwriter and he’s
definitely an artist he’s definitely
like everything it seems like and then
maybe not everything but it seems like
almost everything he posts is a question
as to why can’t it be like this so for
example one of the things that he asked
in the group was hey I want to teach
songwriting what if I go to all these
songwriting groups and as people post I
go to their profile and I see if they
have an email address in their profile
on Facebook
and I send them a note saying hey I’m
gonna teach the songwriting course and I
would love to have you and come join my
group and all that stuff and I said
that’s called spamming you know it’s
called harvesting emails it’s against
Terms of Service on Facebook and he said
oh then you’re in favor of Mark
Zuckerberg charging us to tell people
what we’re up to and I’m like no that’s
that has nothing to do with it
all that all the social media networks
have anti harvesting rules in their
Terms of Service you can’t you can’t go
on LinkedIn and you know when you
connect with somebody grab their their
email addresses and put them on a
mailing list you can but it’s against
Terms of Service you physically can but
but in terms of the regulations on
Facebook on Twitter on Instagram on
Tumblr Facebook I my site it’s on my
site you can’t Hart you’re not allowed
to harvest you come you come on my site
you start grabbing people’s email
addresses I’ll kick you off the site so
I wrote back and I said no it’s not Mark
Zuckerberg it’s everybody it’s not just
Mark Zuckerberg and his response to me
was okay that’s your opinion I want to
hear what somebody else has to say and
nobody else responded no it may be that
he has worn out his welcome in the group
and they don’t feel like engaging with
him when he posts something it’s always
how do I gently break the rules and be a
rebel and and you know it’s it’s look I
get it he’s an artist he’s been rewarded
for thinking outside the box
and he has his own path I mean some of
the things that anyway the point is I it
struck me that it might be helpful to
mention that with all the good things
that come with being an artist sometimes
what also shows up is a blind spot and
that blind spot is often too common
sense
conventional wisdom things that are
tried and true because we say to
ourselves look I’m an artist
and if I’m an artist the rules don’t
apply to me I can go in the artists
entrance I get a crafts table with food
on it for me I get free tickets I get I
get privileged I get rewarded for being
a little eccentric and a little you know
unique but when common sense shows up
it’s worth taking a look at even if you
are an artist no matter what was
presented it didn’t seem to make sense
to him Mark Zuckerberg was the evil
devil I was you know just one voice in a
sea of cacophony and he wanted to hear
somebody else’s opinion okay that’s fine
and I think the reason that they haven’t
been posting is because they don’t want
to engage this guy so the question is is
your approach to art your approach to
being an artist is it in any way shape
or form preventing you from moving
forward from being successful one of the
most common ways it does it is it tends
to because art and commerce are often at
opposing heads with each other it tends
to make us think that being successful
having money being popular is a bad
thing for an artist that an artist has
to be struggling or else their art will
suffer and you know I can tell you that
there’s every 100 percent of the
a-listers out there would disagree with
you and yet those are the people that
are the most popular with the public so
I guess the message here is I love that
everyone is unique and everyone is
hearing that drummer off in the distance
and marching in their own way to it but
watch what’s in front of you watch
what’s behind you watch what’s on either
side as well as listening to that
drummer so that you can stay safe so
that you can feel loved and be loved
I want you to succeed and sometimes
being an artist can get in the way how
do you tell those things apart maybe we
talk about that in a different video but
let me know what you think in the
comments below I’d really like to know
if you’re on video a hero’s comm just
popped down below this video you’ll see
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there’s another box
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go ahead and join it and we’d be happy
to have you on our mailing list so that
you can and we’re not looking for you to
harvest any addresses I’m not harvesting
any avid ress is you do it on your own
volition right okay
I’m David H Lawrence xvii thank you so
much for watching and I will talk to you
tomorrow.