Difference Between Talent And Genius - Jack Grapes

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@filmcourage 2 года назад

Here is the follow up to this segment where Jack Grapes answers why good writers never write a perfect first draft - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KZUv5Orpxk0.html

@Ladygaga4047 2 года назад

Thanks 😊

@cookieDaXapper 2 года назад

Ha ha ha ha , you realized that we were going to ask "what happened to the why?" Thank you for your hard work dedication, and sharing. God bless.

@whitesandandreef4919 2 года назад

Sorry, but no... art is NOT fraught w danger. More elite bull. I've been a painter, musician my whole life and whenever I had a block, I just changed brain state. Its only danger if u let others dictate ur own worth. ART IS SUBJECTIVE...ALWAYS. If u treat the people - movers and shakers- that are involved objectively... nothing will happen to u emotionally... and u become a creative tank - impervious to their political games and wine and cheese BS.

@antdx316 2 года назад

Still 60% through this video and the girl is getting slaughtered. If someone wants something to be seen a certain way they should not ask questions that are just going to most likely throw the wrong answer. This is a huge mistake in society and keeps people from doing "great" things because they are stuck in a challenging world where if it works, they stick to it like working low paying jobs because anything significantly advanced and high paying is too risky or impossible for them which can be true but the effort levels of those can be way way easier if only they knew the answers Already available to people doing things super easy besides "resting in peace".

@velvetbees Год назад

When I write something amazing, sometimes I do know how I did it. But it came in miraculously. Like a stork carrying the proverbial baby. There is a special feeling that visits me, usually when I am cooking or falling asleep, and that ethereal feeling contains the exact perfect wording I want. And that mood of the exact words comes from the fact that have fallen in love with that part of the story. Love conquers all once in a while.

@beanbrewer 2 года назад

"The irony of art is the viewer must find a home where the artist has found an escape" - someone much wiser than I

@krokodilpil8335 2 года назад

Very nice

@elohgenesis875 2 года назад

That's good thanks

@jan-martinulvag1953 2 года назад

escape from what? There is no escape from anything for me. To create is to heal all traumas and that is pure pain

@mantaanafm 2 года назад

😂

@ScribblebytesWorldwide 2 года назад

Whooooooooa

@HermanvanGelder 3 года назад

I think it was David Bowie who said that as an artist you need to push yourself out of your comfort zone in order to really tap into your creativity.

@markkavanagh7377 2 года назад

He did but he also spent 30 years making dross and sadly didn't get his mojo back till he was diagnosed with cancer.

@GreeneMotionPictures 2 года назад

@@markkavanagh7377 Did you make music that isn't "dross"? Would you share it with us?

@75zoran 2 года назад

comfort zone, is the dead zone, for whatever you doing, even a life it self.

@steveconn 2 года назад

Bowie just scavenged whatever was hot at the time - rock, soul, disco - to make himself a hit.

@HermanvanGelder 2 года назад

@@steveconn Come on. Tastes differ but "scavenged"? People inspire people. That's a good thing.

@adn1145 3 года назад

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." - Shunryu Suzuki

@enicot 3 года назад

I see how that's true sometimes, but if you get a beginner and an expert in a space rocket and ask him what could go wrong, you get the opposite.

@adn1145 3 года назад

@@enicot good point, after i'm done a drawing, i take a moment to analyze it for things i could've done better. i've been studying visual art for a couple of years now so i know how to check for proportions, values, anatomy, and so on, but there are some days where i'm just sitting in front of a blank canvas, constantly hitting the undo button, because i know what good art looks like and it's definitely not the things i'm making at that moment. everything i do then is scrutinized until nothing comes out. i think that's when the beginner's mind should be used, when it turns out that your years of experience might be more stifling than they are helpful. in creative disciplines, we need to balance these mindsets

@enicot 3 года назад

@@adn1145 you make an interesting point, if experience is the thing hindering your creative process, then a more rookie approach is in order

@jamesdewane1642 3 года назад

In language teaching, the expert can start anywhere and get to any other place by an unlimited number of routes. So can the beginner, but he doesn't know that yet. Give me a fluent expert every time.

@NikeHero25 2 года назад

@@adn1145 mmmm I’m mmgoing mmmmmmmmnnmmmmnmm mmmmmmmmnn

@tomnorton4277 3 года назад

This guys description of genius and talent reminds me of a story that Anthony Hopkins told about Laurence Olivier. During one of his performances, Olivier apparently went into a kind of trance where he wasn't even fully aware of what he was doing. He said that he didn't remember much of the performance because a voice that wasn't his was coming out of him but according to everybody who watched his performance, it was absolutely amazing. However, after his standing ovation and praise from everybody, Olivier was depressed because he was wondering "How can I do that again?"

@SmallSpoonBrigade 2 года назад

That's why I never pursued acting past a very, very small nonspeaking role in an educational film and some filler for the news. I'd disappear into whatever it was, and the new character would never quite leave. I still retain a lot of it, the ability to cry on cue and the ability to will myself drunk without any alcohol, but I was smart enough to realize that that wasn't what that genius was for. These days, I use that same experience whenever I need to get something done that I can't do. I just figure out who it is that would be able to do it, or at least come close, and that's who I become. It's a weird experience, but over the years I've managed to negotiate enough of a truce that I'm not a looney.

@tomnorton4277 2 года назад

@@SmallSpoonBrigade Rosa Salazar, the woman who played Alita, has said "actors are crazy".

@CPHSDC 2 года назад

A Zen Master asked me if I was ready for the answer. Before I could answer, (the words were on their way out, after the decision to say it and before one begins to hear the echo of phonation in their own ears,) Master brought his bamboo stick onto my head.

@oeu3669 2 года назад

@@SmallSpoonBrigade sounds like you’re a sort of master manifester

@wilsonrodrigues1293 2 года назад

When you enter into the zone, your self concept diludes to the true of character, and that's the most important thing to you can do to honor the craft and the character

@firemanreal 2 года назад

“Talent does what it can; Genius does what it must.” - Edward Bulwer-Lytton The same author of the phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword”.

@joanbradshaw333 2 года назад

Also' "it was a dark and stormy night."

@mantaanafm 2 года назад

@@joanbradshaw333 what’s the meaning of this?

@A0A4ful 2 года назад

@@mantaanafm I believe it's the opening line to one of his stories. The line has resounded in literary history, because it's so precise, complete and powerful. It jumps on to your imagination and intellect, and you are already hooked, waiting for the story to unfold.

@l.w.paradis2108 2 года назад

@@A0A4ful Most writers consider it one of the worst, and it's parodied all of the time. That's why it became Peanuts character Snoopy's favorite opening sentence when he set out to write the next Great American Novel.

@stringfellowbalk2654 2 года назад

Oh fuck.

@gordondavis6168 3 года назад

A one-hit wonder is still a wonder. The problem comes from trying to make a predictable business out of inspired art. This is very apparent in Hollywood, where the studio tries to make a creative great film into a franchise of 17 sequels. As an endeavor becomes a bloated business, the studios go for tried-and-true over original, thus we get a transformers 25 and Fast and Furious 13.

@thedudeabides3930 3 года назад

Nicely said. There's a poem that begins, "Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew..." Your comment reminds me of that.

@pinchebruha405 2 года назад

Because the people with money lack the creative mindset thats needed to be brave enough to go for something new. I designed clothes for many a company that dug its own grave when they wanted to regurgitate the same $hit we did the season before. They think they’re onto something and need to be in control and act like they’re the clever one

@TheAdobe101 2 года назад

very well said

@pbg9208 2 года назад

EPIC

@THUGNEEZY 2 года назад

And remakes and spinoffs then the redesigned version where theres no cgi but actual transforming cars or something but the same movie. Everyone slides into depression cuz we're stuck in this repetitive loop that feels like it's guna be like this forever cuz there exists no new creations/art/experiences/inspiration (which is probably the closest to what living forever would feel like). The big media companies make a jack ton of money reselling already created things long after the original genius that made them passed and tell you that you aren't successful cuz you dont do things you've never done or that you cant be influenced by people if you wanna be successful (which defeats the purpose of them saying that) that you gotta separate and create your own path and challenge yourself (and everyone misses the irony) as society slowly falls into a pit of hopelessness as they start to believe these things cuz all the rich cocksuckers said it yet everyone knows they've failed or fails at some point cuz we all do it's a part of life just like deception and corruption are, not specifically cuz some rich idiot who has no idea who you or even themselves are, told you that your problems are due to a character flaw in you that you may or may not even have. Then some random RU-vid commenter types out some long ass random, ironic but funny and eerily true (only eerie cuz truth is so scarce when we experience it, it feels potently familiar but we forgot what it was((what I imagine seeing a ghost would feel like)) (((parenthesisception))) ) and you wonder wtf is life even.

@PhilliposHaile 2 года назад

4:35am, can’t sleep, and I get this powerful message. Thank you for this. “When you can get rid of your talent, and are willing to fail, sometimes the accident of your genius comes to the rescue.”

@12DAMDO 2 года назад

"this failure doesn't define who i am" really needed that right now, because i recently failed at something important and wasn't sure where to go from here...

@inspiredcontent5918 3 года назад

"the whole idea of creating art is to get yourself in trouble as much as you can."

@johnpresnell 3 года назад

Fascinating. He makes the case for why some beginners have great success but then cannot repeat it. The world is littered with “one-hit wonders.”

@johnpresnell 3 года назад

@@northernpunx1978, that’s the point.

@johnpresnell 3 года назад

@@northernpunx1978, definitely. As the saying goes, “you only have to get it right once.”

@okachobired5856 3 года назад

Yes. I've always thought one hit wonders are one hit because they continually try to recreate their early success without taking chances or being uncompromisingly brave.

@ZaaZoJo 3 года назад

Richard Kelly who made donnie darko.... his only hit. A good one too

@NJGuy1973 2 года назад

Many one-hit wonders did so because they latched onto a trend, or because some influential person liked them. Often it's chance.

@MaunderMaximum 3 года назад

Genius doesn't come from "self-expression." Genius is the Muse speaking *through* you. Sometimes the best thing you can do is get out of the way and let it speak.

@AtlasTourMusic 2 года назад

#inthezone

@emmagrove6491 2 года назад

Too true. Genius comes from someplace outside of yourself. Artists and writers are more like lightening rods than vessels.

@patrickmcdaniel8123 2 года назад

Maunder Maximum - Best comment in this comment section.

@wbdna4n1theforeignone68 2 года назад

#channeling

@Thadnill 2 года назад

"muse" ? elaborate please

@markcgonzales9569 3 года назад

I cannot agree more. This is brilliant. We live in such an anti-fail age now that no one is willing to walk the plank of new ideas. Eg Remakes of movies. So few people are willing to walk into the unknown and forget what they know that their talent tells them to do. Talent is like a narrative that gets more and more woven. It dictates our action and behavior which molds the craft of our art form. Then it can be seen as rigid and hardened whereby our craft becomes stale of trying anything innovative which further pushes us away from our genius and risks. So how does one listen to their genius? And grab a hold of it again? It slips through our hands every day. Here’s two things I can think of: 1) solitude. Get real quiet with yourself and start writing, etc. Just go and don’t stop. 2)stop watching other people/social media for a while at least. IMO Those will help conjure up our genius.

@room203GLG 2 года назад

Thank you for this I’m going to apply it

@sonja7halcyon 2 года назад

Yes quiet and no social media works

@Lena_raly 7 месяцев назад

the second tip of advice is the most difficult for me, but I have to do it

@KayFlowidity 2 года назад

4:35 👌👌👌 5:35 Truth 8:35 Talent & Genius 11:11 The Muse 12:30 Great >Good 13:55 🔥🔥🔥 14:40 Put Yourself in Danger 16:30 Accident of Genius

@philipgilliam3400 3 года назад

This is a brilliant, BRILLIANT interviewee! He totally nails, what I thought was, the essence of Eugene Herrigel’s book, “Zen and the Art of Archery“. “ The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.” Breathtaking!

@Mokkari77 3 года назад

Like Paul McCartney when he wrote "Yesterday". One day he just woke up and the melody was in his head. He didn't know where it came from. He was convinced he must have heard it somewhere and asked people if the tune was familiar to them. He would say later "I couldnt have just dreamed it. You don't get that lucky."

@OthO67 2 года назад

The title was Scrambled Eggs.

@Sean-lv6fx 3 года назад

What I took from this is that he seems to be saying that innovation equals genius. You still need strong fundamentals(talent) to be able to manipulate or innovate with existing ideas, but it's usually the innovators work that stands out.

@octosalias5785 3 года назад

When I was writing articles my editing would end up with sentences moved, broken, rearranged, paragraphs moving. It was its own creative process.

@chrisoliver3642 3 года назад

There's a reason they say "don't get it right, get it written". Getting it right, finding those tiny gems of genius, is what happens during the process of rewriting.

@a.banks.7682 3 года назад

Omg! Thanks for this advice... This man has not only been through a lot of pain and therapy. This man has truly been through life. Talent can be your worse enemy especially, if you are multi-talented. The bread crumbs he is dropping are valuable. This info is gold. One truly needs to pay attention to the pockets of wisdom still walking around down here.

@kslique 3 года назад

Omg. This is why I never complete anything. I rely on my talent. Whenever a project exceeds my talent, I put it down. What a dumbass. I gotta stop relying on my talent all the time and just push on and hope for the genius to show up.

@basilf1 3 года назад

You and me both.

@LillenArt2 2 года назад

Even if the genius doesn't come, you will learn something from the experience.

@thac0twenty377 2 года назад

Advice I got from a published writer was "Talents a dime a dozen. the ones who make it have to put in the work and sweat it out"

@shininguri1 2 года назад

I just let my feelings guide me when i get stuck. Like what feelings do i want the audience to experience. What would make me feel that way.? Then i put on a song that helps entice the desired feeling, images start to pop in my head which match the song and desired feeling. Then i just go from and go from there. But im only on my first story so we'll see if this advice is solid lol

@HORSESNDOGS9 2 года назад

Dude, I'm there too. The key is to just keep going at it. Keep running into the brick wall until a rope appears so you can climb it. It's laborious, but incredibly rewarding

@TheFeelButton 3 года назад

Genius is the capacity to translate inspiration. Cheers Film Courage!

@funkymunky 3 года назад

Writing is initial overproduction, followed by obsessive selection. Always keep more than you publish. And don't speak, but sing.

@thewirv 2 года назад

I think there are so many people living "unexamined lives". Especially nowadays it's so easy to just go into kind of "auto mode" and follow a pre-determined path without actually thinking about what you're doing, and whether you actually like that.

@emmagrove6491 2 года назад

True. Tweeting about what you're doing isn't self-examination. I walked away from a career because I could no longer remember why I was doing it and could find no reason to keep doing it.

@AnaFolkenstal 3 года назад

Wow, this clip is genius. Seriously… it explains a lot to me as an artist.

@RM_VFX 2 года назад

Genius is a latin word for a guiding spirit or deity that gives inspiration. It often comes during moments of quiet or meditation, not the deliberate thought that's part of talent. It speaks when it is ready, and is short lived, so you always have to be listening for it. The best you can do is feed it and provide those moments of quiet.

@marilynlucas5128 2 года назад

Great! I must add that genius is a photon that hits you at an angle of light.Or 'angel of light ' Your vibratory frequency determines when the angle of light hits you

@deborahjoy3994 2 года назад

What do you mean not the deliberate thought that's part of talent?

@Ruylopez778 3 года назад

You have to be willing to fail in order to create something great (not just something good). I think most people understand the sentiment, but aren't truly willing to commit to that process, because they're worried it will be a 'waste of time', which is why Jack is underlining it. People want to replicate the result without wanting to go through the process, focused on 'success' and not on 'experimentation'.

@Snagabott 3 года назад

And most of the time it _is_ a huge waste of time. But you don't hear the story of the guy who started out small; took a risk, fell on his face and stayed small. The lesson from the famous Dunning-Kruger experiment is that it is the exact same skill you use to _evaluate_ as you use to _do._ If you aren't at least moderately competent as a writer, you won't recognize your moment of genius before it leaves you.

@Ruylopez778 3 года назад

@@Snagabott "stayed small"? Becoming "big" doesn't guarantee you're growing or improving as a creator. It just means that whatever output happened to find the right audience at the right time. The artist can sure work their ass off trying to get 'discovered', but ultimately it's out of their control whether they get any recognition/popularity. All the artist can focus on is their own process and growth. Plenty of crap writers got rich and famous writing crap. Doesn't mean they got better, or that they were even happy with what they produced. To paraphrase a critically and commercially successful photographer, Garry Winogrand, 'Mostly it's about failure - most images don't quite work. But you have to be willing to fail to get anything good. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.' Experimentation is how you learn, in basically any creative endeavour, and it's also how prevent yourself from stagnating. Just sticking to the things the artist already knows is unlikely to produce great work. Just my opinion.

@Ruylopez778 3 года назад

@@Snagabott First you want to talk about 'success' and then "genius". I don't think anyone who ever made great work thought about success or genius as part of the process - which is the sentiment of my comment you seem to have a problem with. I think you'd be hard pressed to find an acclaimed artist that didn't experiment to some degree before (or during) their "genius". I'd argue that a self aware writer can see when they're writing bullshit - and if they don't have that instinct, they probably won't write anything good without a lot of help. Seems to me like great work either requires a big leap [of inspiration] from everything else (through experimentation) or incremental steps over many years to reach the same solution. YMMV.

@THUGNEEZY 2 года назад

@@Snagabott except we have buddy. Or wait.... have we? All I know is I heard a lot of inspirational stories about people's come up who are the least inspirational and most insecure jackasses I've ever seen. Which is why I try to keep these kind of storytellers at a distance bless their hearts.

@Dayvit78 3 года назад

This guy is going all over the place with his metaphors. A true writer. :)

@DonovanPresents 3 года назад

I have to applaud the interviewer for doubling down and not allowing him to run away with the interview 😅

@chrisoliver3642 3 года назад

She had to fight to remain relevant. Left in an empty room with a running camera, Jack Grapes would've interviewed himself.

@dotmarceo 3 года назад

Yeah, but I wanted to hear his take on why a first draft is incomplete. I don't think it was taking over the interview. Maybe she took it that way. I don't know.

@Alexandre-rt7xk 3 года назад

Unnecessarily rude. I want to know his take about the first draft also.

@chrisoliver3642 3 года назад

@@Alexandre-rt7xk Next, ask me why it was unnecessarily rude.

@Alexandre-rt7xk 3 года назад

@@chrisoliver3642 I'm not interviewing you dude, nobody is waiting for your insight. And for your point to be valid it should be me who tell you to ask me why. The setup is mine since I'm the one who said it was unnecessarily rude, not you.

@mikekavalerchik5226 2 года назад

Talent and hard work is still a precursor of genius to be able to occur

@Kittsuera 2 года назад

Imo it’s not that you get rid of your talent it’s knowing when your talent isn’t enough to get you across to the next goal post and being willing to take a risk in doing something your talent doesn’t know how to do.

@const71 3 года назад

Genius occurs when you are unwilling to settle for the best that your talent has to offer and you are too stubborn (or foolish) to know when to stop trying.

@thebarf9235 3 года назад

Nice one.

@thegreatestbharat7701 2 года назад

Please explain this to me.

@kelliecadoganmusic 2 года назад

"When you let go of your talent and are willing to fail..sometimes your genius will appear!".Oh YES!! This is soooooooo great!!!!!!

@Meganelsonator 2 года назад

The 4th script i ever wrote was what I thought was the best. I thought I really understood storytelling. And I did have all the beats and it came naturally. However, my 5th script is where I had this realization that he is talking about. I couldn't believe i wrote something so special.

@yeshv1989 2 года назад

I cannot stop watching Jack grapes! This was amazing!❤️❤️❤️

@SkeetBeat1 2 года назад

Everything this man says is making sense he makes it simple to understand! He's a good teacher

@staceylouise2412 2 года назад

I love this interview & I still have almost 5 min. Left to hear! Thank you both 🙏👏❤️

@AndrewRMontoya 2 года назад

This guy is one of the best you’ve had on. Love your interviews ♥️

@4orkast 3 года назад

So many gems of wisdom in here. Packed! Thank you both so much.

@filmcourage 3 года назад

We appreciate you watching!

@adamrafferty 2 года назад

My beloved music guru would always say “talent is what you start out with, not what you end up with.”

@keycuz 2 года назад

You can sometimes get a similar feeling from drawing when you just stop putting in effort. Instead of concentrating and trying to make a perfect 40 hour rendering, just being loose and letting the lines do what they want can come out awesome.

@insanejughead 3 года назад

I believe that proper use of genius moments can allow someone to reach a higher plateau of useful talents. The person has to be aware of the impact and response to the stimulus.

@aresaurelian 2 года назад

Wise words about the mystery of invention and brilliance. Thank you.

@austinccolton 3 года назад

New favorite channel! So happy to see such amazing interviews in a time where it’s all marketing garbage. Can’t wait to watch more.

@Dehhvil 2 года назад

Simply one of the best videos on this platform.

@wk3960 2 года назад

When you let go of your talent The genius in you will come to your rescue That genius

@MrRanvir69 3 года назад

This is PHENOMENAL , well described, worth listening

@NancyWileyArt 2 года назад

How inspiring! Thanks for sharing this insightful interview.

@tusharsonar963 2 года назад

This is one of the best videos. thanks Film courage, you made my day

@Soulr Год назад

I really loved this one.

@redwatch. 3 года назад

Best advice I've ever heard.

@Blake-gh8xl 2 года назад

Love how u handle the situation interview person!!! Love ur stuff

@Dunamis_010 3 года назад

Wise words, great perspective.

@UnknownNetworkTV 2 года назад

I enjoyed how this man was able to articulate his points .. #Respect

@willwithwill 2 года назад

Delightful interview!! ...left my heart feeling all hugged and understood... sighhhhhh(in a fantastic way):)

@Cato229 2 года назад

"You gotta be willing to fail." -Jack Grapes This is what it takes to be an artist rather than a mere technician. Give yourself permission to do poorly so you can have the opportunity to become great.

@StorytellerStudios 2 года назад

Excellent interview- especially "Genius moments".

@lonjohnson5161 3 года назад

The "How can I do that again?" is the point where I connected with his message. I have one good script (I thought I had more until I wrote that one) and since then, I've been trying to recreate that quality.

@greenspringvalley 3 года назад

Musicians say you got to be in the zone. I read someone the other day say to just get in the zone first, and I think that's it. If you try to make up jokes they will sound contrived but if you're in a funny mood they just pop out hilarious.

@Pataganja 3 года назад

@@greenspringvalley The jokes example made this click for me thank you!

@johnmeaney511 3 года назад

Just let go of the feeling. It doesn’t like when you get attached to it. It won’t let you recreate it if you keep holding on to it. It’s like a friend with benefits. Just be ready to answer the phone when it calls

@tomlewis4748 3 года назад

I agree with the idea completely. Maybe not so much the terminology, which is confusing. Jack is using the word 'talent' to represent conscious knowledge. IOW, what someone knows and is aware of, like technique, and vocabulary, and all the grammatical rules, and all the 'tricks' and literary tools. Also known as 'craft'. He's using the word 'genius' to refer to the unconscious or implicit knowledge we are both given and acquire through implicit learning. Unconsciously. We don't know we have it, because it is not something in the conscious realm. But it's there. We just don't have any empirical evidence that it is. I've come to believe that the unconscious mind is where real creativity lies. The trick is figuring out how to shepherd that to make it come out. To get the muse (another word for the unconscious) to step in and guide us. Jack says the best way is to roll the dice and just try, and not be afraid to fail. And he's right. This explains why many, many people who want to be writers and pay $200K for an MFA emerge from that completely unable to write. Or film school. Same problem. That happens all the time. The conscious knowledge (talent) gets in the way of the real creative force (genius, or unconscious). No one can teach you how to write, because that does not come from the conscious realm. This is why they take your money, teach you 'craft' but then tell you to 'read', hoping osmosis might work. The unconscious or implicit knowledge that is really what is used to write can't be quantified or defined, consciously, and so it is also then impossible to teach. It can only be learned, or accessed. And no one can tell you how. It explains why rookie or minor league batters get 'the yips' and go in to batting slumps. All they've learned about how to hit a pitch gets in the way of the unconscious implicit knowledge. And it takes half a second for a pitch to cross the plate, and our adaptive unconscious, the same ability that gets us to jump out of the way of a bus, can think 8 times faster than our conscious mind. So if they leverage their 'talent' against the pitch, it's already in the catcher's mitt. If they instead allow the 'talent' to get out of the way, 25-30% of the time, they end up on base. If you have a complicated shot facing you in a pool match, and you think about how to make the shot, you are much less able to do that than if you just don't think, and just wing it. Same exact principle. Malcolm Gladwell explains this brilliantly in his novel 'Blink'.

@sskp6168 2 года назад

Such a Profound Man! Hats off to Mr. Grapes!

@InsideOutInkDemon 3 года назад

Just ask him why he never keeps the first draft!!

@stellaiyimoga9030 2 года назад

Lol I was waiting for that and it still didn't come 😀

@portlandgoose4727 2 года назад

He never said he doesn't keep it. He only said that the first draft is never the final draft, and I think that probably has to do with some sort of inner sense of perfectionism, which most true craftsmen possess. Or the fact that revising a first draft almost always inspires new additions and tweaks.

@SimonM7TV 2 года назад

I feel like the answer is obvious to pretty much anyone, even moreso to anyone watching this interview, and asking the question is sort of a waste of time. You could argue more time was wasted by not asking, but that's mostly because he wouldn't let it go. :)

@royfr8136 2 года назад

An arrogant woman... a man would have asked him..... She was just pushing back and doing what women call, 'assertiveness.. Other human beings call is being an asshole.

@royfr8136 2 года назад

@@SimonM7TV oh Simon... dont be a xxxx

@eeman13 2 года назад

You didn't ask him why even when he was ready to answer and we were ready anticipating it. But I love his talk about talent and genius

@filmcourage 2 года назад

Here' the follow up - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KZUv5Orpxk0.html

@timeless_heritage 2 года назад

@@filmcourage yessir💪🏽

@lrockyfan5106 Год назад

Yeah I’m glad she didn’t. He was trying to run both sides of the I interview at that point. That’s not what she wanted to ask. If he wanted to talk about it he could have. But no he was a bit rude and said “Now you ask me why.” That’s not how it works.

@LburgVAGuy 2 года назад

That's what I want as a writer. Not fame or fortune, just to effect people

@alessandrajouberteix4663 2 года назад

This is so insightful. Though out my life I consider I did not have any talent. I supported my children in their art expression until last year when I decided to jump into express myself. I have failed at everything so what would another fail would do to me? I got a 1OK loan, open Ed my studio and went for it- into the unknown. To my surprise, It experienced what he just explained-no idea how I did it! I tell everybody, “ I did not do it,” I just traced the lines’ Fascinating! Thank you for explaining it so well.

@pjreece9901 2 года назад

Jack Grapes ... you are an inspiration ... thank you.

@tanyascott1338 2 года назад

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You 😊. That Video Really BLESSED Me, On So Many Leaves!!!!! Bring That Guess, Back Again. He's GOOD !!!

@paulagoddard5391 2 года назад

I wonder if you have any idea how helpful and reassuring your videos are!

@djdollase 2 года назад

Love this guy! Never heard “Your talent gets in the way of your genius” before! But makes sense in terms of the Ego not letting you experiment, take a risk because it’s fear of…. fill in the blank!

@misguidedpearls7456 2 года назад

This was amazing n soooo helpful

@Rich-tb6uh 2 года назад

This interview was very inspiring

@JASSIEUOTv 2 года назад

"talent is the obstacle to genius" Ive been binging this channel so many gems!!!

@captainzor2886 2 года назад

I needed to hear this.

@nolidcreations 2 года назад

Creative accidents.. Love that 🤔💜

@fredilly 2 года назад

this was brilliant!

@bauerfilms4832 3 года назад

This was amazing.

@mirna8065 Год назад

This is so brilliant, Jack is genius!!

@firemanreal 2 года назад

Excellent talk

@truson5564 2 года назад

Damn there made me cry

@lilledrum 2 года назад

Delightful man.

@thebarf9235 3 года назад

Genius is when you have a great idea that you can't easily trace to your influences. It's you being original.

@sobreaver 2 года назад

Lego blocks can shape your (maybe young early) creative thinking on a far reaching deep level, explore the pieces and find a way, perhaps a new one, to put them together and make it work. From the practical to the unknown.

@justinepress2118 Год назад

I love this man!

@kincamell2 2 года назад

Much Gratitude

@peteranthonie 2 года назад

Wow sucha vibe this guy is a new perspective

@naturalwayfilms 2 года назад

He's right. My best work happens in the spur of the moment and when I have limited resources.

@MsMayhassan 2 года назад

Wow, he's brilliant!

@zahher591 2 года назад

Yes fr

@leonardbigali1352 2 года назад

Thank you.

@crazyfingers619 3 года назад

Very inspiring. Been sucking wind for a while now so I must be doing something right!

@jerseymaiden 2 года назад

So great

@TheSunshineDiva 2 года назад

Greatest advice 🙏🏾

@richardpenhardt6100 2 года назад

i'm with ya. wise and genuine. art elicits and life is processional.

@Titandusk 2 года назад

So intense. I'm still reeling from the ideas!

@goodbragpro 2 года назад

"Talent is a tool, Being a genius is a company of its own" -Harvey Fenellere

@kingdomroyal4987 2 года назад

music to my ears

@portlandgoose4727 2 года назад

My moments of creative genius tend to coincide with low moments of manic depression. The dilemma of feeling a desire to recreate a traumatic manic episode for the sake of genuine, powerful creative output is a pretty weird one.

@kenneth1767 3 года назад

What we call The Muse is our Genius. Genius for mining the gems, Talent for polishing them. Yes we all have genius, it's the untapped essence of our being.

@greenspringvalley 3 года назад

"Mining the gems" goes along with Jack's reference to genius "Where did it come from".

@greenspringvalley 3 года назад

There is a local artist, a Bob Dylan like character who makes art that people like. He's a positive guy and it comes out in his art.

@SailingCorina 3 месяца назад

As a new writer I love learning from these masters but I sure hope I can create great novels on talent without needing years and years of studying to get to their levels of knowledge. Since writing is considered an art, I am sure many painters pick up a brush and make beautiful paintings knowing only the basics. I understand with experience comes wisdom but hopefully natural talent is also possible to produce great works.

@tymkoc3293 3 года назад

This man is brilliant.

@THELIONGUY1981 2 года назад

GOD DAMN, this guy is insane, i just love him to so many levels lolol i can listen to him for days and learn lol

@hmsdefiant 2 года назад

This is why I love altered tunings on the guitar. I'm a very talented player, but when I have to feel where to go sincerely, outside of the box, special things happen. I sit down the park and people tell me how lovely it is. I am frequently on the peripherals of genius.

@LS-sf1hf 3 года назад

Wow! That blew my mind.

@filmcourage 3 года назад

Which part?

@LS-sf1hf 3 года назад

@@filmcourage The part where he differentiates talent from Genius. More specifically when he said: "Talent does what it can. Genius does what it must". I never thought of it this way.

@filmcourage 3 года назад

That is a great line. Thank you for posting!