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In This Episode: I still feel his pain, and I will until I die. But strangely, feeling that pain led me to resolve, not fear. That taught me that my pain could be a good teacher.
093: The Best Books were Never Written
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* The video and photos mentioned are within the transcript. The video was released in April 2019.
* The website for the One Voice Children’s Choir.
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Welcome back to Uncommon Sense, I’m Randy Cassingham.
The best songs were never sung.
The greatest poems that pierced hearts were never published.
The greatest artist ever didn’t capture what was in her mind.
The best music was never played.
The best performances were never acted.
The best books were never written.
And, yeah, the best podcasts were never made.
Even if those works of art were created, most disappeared because their creators were afraid to submit them to public view, to offer them for publication, to let them out of the drawer where they were hidden away. They were trashed, burned, lost.
Why?
They say…
“I’m not talented enough.”
“It’s not good enough.”
“I’m too old.”
Or the classic, “It’s not ready yet.”
It all comes down to fear.
Where does fear come from?
Pain.
My favorite song about pain — an oxymoron I know, but there’s the human brain for you — is Believer. My favorite version of it is not from the band that had a huge hit with it, Imagine Dragons, but rather the version from a nonprofit children’s choir in Utah called the One Voice Children’s Choir that grew out of the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Children singing about pain? You bet, and when they belt out lyrics like “my life, my love, my drive, it came from pain,” yeah, they know what they’re singing, and they put feeling into it because they’ve felt the pain.
Pain is fortunately part of the human condition. Because it’s the people who push through the pain, take chances at putting their thoughts, their feelings, their art, out into the world for others to measure against those same feelings in themselves because they’ve felt that pain — that’s what makes a mark on the human condition.
That’s what art is: reflecting on the human condition whether it’s writing or paintings or songs or poems or even dance (dance is a very effective part of that choir performance).
“Pain: you break me down you build me up … you make me a believer” the lyrics say.
I’ll embed the video on the Show Page. It has nearly 200 million views, and only a half-million are mine. But watch it: you’ll know those kids, in age ranging from 4 to 18, have gone through pain; sure, most likely the older they are the more they’ve experienced. Yet in so many cases, it’s because of the pain we’ve all gone through that great art emerges.
In This Episode: I still feel his pain, and I will until I die. But strangely, feeling that pain led me to resolve, not fear. That taught me that my pain could be a good teacher.
093: The Best Books were Never Written
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Jump to Transcript
How to Subscribe and List of All Episodes
Show Notes
*
* The video and photos mentioned are within the transcript. The video was released in April 2019.
* The website for the One Voice Children’s Choir.
Transcript
Welcome back to Uncommon Sense, I’m Randy Cassingham.
The best songs were never sung.
The greatest poems that pierced hearts were never published.
The greatest artist ever didn’t capture what was in her mind.
The best music was never played.
The best performances were never acted.
The best books were never written.
And, yeah, the best podcasts were never made.
Even if those works of art were created, most disappeared because their creators were afraid to submit them to public view, to offer them for publication, to let them out of the drawer where they were hidden away. They were trashed, burned, lost.
Why?
They say…
“I’m not talented enough.”
“It’s not good enough.”
“I’m too old.”
Or the classic, “It’s not ready yet.”
It all comes down to fear.
Where does fear come from?
Pain.
My favorite song about pain — an oxymoron I know, but there’s the human brain for you — is Believer. My favorite version of it is not from the band that had a huge hit with it, Imagine Dragons, but rather the version from a nonprofit children’s choir in Utah called the One Voice Children’s Choir that grew out of the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Children singing about pain? You bet, and when they belt out lyrics like “my life, my love, my drive, it came from pain,” yeah, they know what they’re singing, and they put feeling into it because they’ve felt the pain.
Pain is fortunately part of the human condition. Because it’s the people who push through the pain, take chances at putting their thoughts, their feelings, their art, out into the world for others to measure against those same feelings in themselves because they’ve felt that pain — that’s what makes a mark on the human condition.
That’s what art is: reflecting on the human condition whether it’s writing or paintings or songs or poems or even dance (dance is a very effective part of that choir performance).
“Pain: you break me down you build me up … you make me a believer” the lyrics say.
I’ll embed the video on the Show Page. It has nearly 200 million views, and only a half-million are mine. But watch it: you’ll know those kids, in age ranging from 4 to 18, have gone through pain; sure, most likely the older they are the more they’ve experienced. Yet in so many cases, it’s because of the pain we’ve all gone through that great art emerges.
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