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In Episode 44 of Art Talk, I will discuss the focus artists need when they have to switch from art to business We all know that energy flows where Focus goes.
One of the first biographers of Leonardo Da Vinci wrote: “in learning and in the rudiments of letters he would have made great proficiency, if he had not been so variable and unstable, for he set himself to learn many things, and then, after having begun them, abandoned them.”
-(Vasari, 1996).
The problem addressed is one many of us probably can relate to. Others are able to focus on only one thing, master that, and stick to that for the rest of their lives. Last year I did a test with my mentor Dr Libby Kemkaran. She is a neuro and pique performance coach. From her, I learned that I have a so-called cheetah brain. That means that my neurology is that of a creator innovator. I have multiple ideas coming in, and I also do not finish all projects I start. Often I leave the ideas which stream into my mind -especially when I shower – for what they are.
My main struggle is the focus, which is in regard to my neurology, is not that strange. A classically trained musician, an MA Art historian, a classically trained portrait painter and someone open to learning everything that interests her. Hence why I’m quickly distracted and can be easily bored. I often receive the moniker renaissance woman. Sounds nice but is it? For Da Vinci, it apparently wasn’t. He died lamenting “that he had offended God and mankind in not having worked at his art as he should have done” (Vasari, 1996; Nicholl, 2004; Vecce, 2006).
I definitely do not feel like that when I am ready to breathe out my last breath. However, because of the knowledge I now have about my neurology, I know how to handle it. It is my intention to work with it and not against it.