I’ve been told this is one of the most famous TED talks. So most of you have already seen it. But what hits me is that if most of you like it this means it touches you in a way. You connect to it. Or it connects to a part of you which has already experienced what she’s saying. Which eventually means- so many people are in fact creative! They have just not mastered the appropriate means of expression.

It is indeed phenomenal how she structures her words. How she plays with them. Like she has disected and learned the potential of this tool called “English language”. So she builds like an arcitect with it. By learning what you can do with a tool  you can really start to play with it. For example, putting in ridicule to portray and sketch a concept of divinity.

Sometimes I feel truly powerless. I try to explain something but words are either so elusive or never potent enough to portray what’s in my head. So I use tons of words. I layer and layer and layer so eventually and very hypothetically  through the conglomerate of the piles of words used one could get a clumsy representation of my initial thought. Other times I just go down the lazy road and make up words on my own. Especially in Bulgarian.

But the real hard work, for which I admire  people like her is the effort to successfully put down a concept in mainstream language. To have the grandeur of inspiration but then make that effort to bring the concept down so we, with our limited senses and perceptions can communicate.  Such people are  not just a pipeline. They are hard workers. They don’t just see themselves like those pretentious bohemian minds who think they shoudln’t bother trying to put across their igeniousness to the “ungifted”. Because it takes courage and hard work to lay your message. Because people matter. And communication is essential!

And I firmly believe it is a struggle to learn to channel the energy coming from the brilliance of inspiration. To settle it through the limited means of language and touch other people. Hard work indeed! That’s why I like people who always have little pieces of paper around them; tiny booklettes in their pocket, a tape recorer in the handbag, or the appropriate application on their phone. It shows their desire to grasp- with the tools developed in our physical world – notions coming from that mystical idea place where the limits of language, sight, smell…do not exist. So, what I am eventually trying to conclude is: master the  physical tool so you can give birth to your ideas.  Be it language, drawing, crafts, music…For most of us get inspired soo easily and of the tiniest things. Which means so many people are artists. Some just don’t know it yet!