V IS FOR VULNERABLE by SETH GODIN

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  Welcome to stem stories of Mr Ewing.

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  We're gonna read a very interesting ABC book called V

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  Is for Vulnerable by Seth Godin.

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  I hope you enjoy it as much as I have

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  enjoyed it, and we'll talk about it to the end

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  of our story.

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  B is for vulnerable life outside the Comfort Joan An

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  ABC for Grown Ups by Seth Godin illustrated by Hugh

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  Macleod. See the world the way an artist does your

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  law rocks made me cry every time Dr Seuss made

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  me giggle when I was three, he taught me how

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  to read when I was five.

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  Today he reminds me how important our future is whether

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  or not we have kids.

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  Every one of his books is incredibly simple, some with

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  just 300 words inside.

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  But the ideas stick with us and even more powerful.

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  E push us to take action, to embrace opportunity, not

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  to merely watch and wait.

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  I'm hoping that this book I created with Human Cloud

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  will help you choose to see the world differently, radically

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  differently. I'm hoping that instead of asking, how can this

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  book help me to a better job to keep the

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  world as it ISS.

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  Perhaps you could monetarily choose or momentarily choose to see

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  the world as a different place altogether.

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  I'm trying to set get under your skin.

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  I'm trying to get you to stop being a spectator

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  and upon in the industrial system that raised us And

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  maybe just maybe, to stand up and do something that

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  scares you.

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  I want you to do what you're meant to do.

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  What we're all meant to do, which is hard work

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  of creating, is the hard work of creating art.

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  The artist wonders.

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  How can I break this?

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  And is it interesting?

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  Go break something.

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  Seth Godin.

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  Yes. Read this book out loud.

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  Just someone you care about.

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  I care about you.

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  Even though this is aimed toward artists, remember that we're

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  all artists, especially us educators.

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  And we're now looking at a very artistic way of

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  educating. I hope you enjoy V is for vulnerable.

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  A anxiety is experienced failure in advance.

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  Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome

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  of your work and you'll soon come to believe them.

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  Worry is not perception for preparation and anxiety doesn't make

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  you better be bear.

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  Burl that log.

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  Find your balance by losing it and commit two feet

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  in motion until you're blurring Burling in the log is

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  spinning. The log isn't going to spend itself.

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  You know, a spinning log is stable for a while,

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  but not forever.

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  That's why Berling is worth watching the letter C commitment.

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  Commitment is the only thing that gets you through castle

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  Commitment takes you from.

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  That's a fine idea to it's done.

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  Commitment is risky because if you fail, it's on you.

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  On the other hand, without commitment, you will fail because

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  art on ships is an art.

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  Lessons undone aren't lessons.

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  Great ideas, our only great ideas until you bring them

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  to life.

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  The letter D dance with fear Dance wouldn't with done

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  dance with the resistance, dance with each other, Dance with

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  Bart, dance with your learning and your lessons.

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  A effort isn't the effort isn't the point.

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  Impact is if you solve the problem in three seconds

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  but have the guts to share it with me.

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  It's still art, and if you move £10,000 of granite,

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  but the result doesn't connect with may.

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  I'm sorry for your callous, but you haven't made art,

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  at least not for me.

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  Yeah, Feedback feedback is either a crutch earl weapon.

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  Use feedback to make your work smaller, safer and more

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  likely to please everyone and fail in the long run.

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  Or use it as a lever to further push you

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  to embrace what you fear and what you're capable of.

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  The bag is critical for growth, and you can either

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  use feel feedback to comply.

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  We're gonna push yourself further.

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  The letter G gifts.

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  Gifts are the essence of art and learning.

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  Our isn't made as part of an even exchange.

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  It is your chance to create imbalance, which leads to

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  connection. To share your art is a requirement of making

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  it. You're work and your lessons be your heart.

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  H heroes Air people who take risk for the right

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  reasons. Riel art is a heroic art.

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  Hipsters, on the other hand, are pretenders who haven't risked

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  a thing but light to play.

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  The part H I initiative is the privilege of picking

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  yourself. You're not given initiative.

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  You take it.

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  Pick yourself.

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  If you're not getting what you want, it may be

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  because you're not making good enough part often enough.

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  Think about when you're creating your lessons.

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  Think about lessons as art.

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  It is our art.

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  J Joy is different from pleasure or delight or fun.

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  Joy is the satisfaction of connection.

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  The well earned emotion you deserve after shipping are that

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  make made a difference?

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  Okay, A knife works best when it has an edge

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  to take the edge off to back off to play

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  it safe to smooth it out to please wth e

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  uninterested masses is not but the knife is for l

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  is for l M N O, which used to be

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  a single letter of the alphabet.

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  The artist seeks to break apart the unbreakable and to

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  combine the UN combine Herbal and l is for the

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  lonely because everyone is and the artist does not.

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  Does the endless work of helping us conquer that loneliness?

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  I m more more is not the goal of the

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  artists Better is the artist's dream.

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  Better connection is the point of the work.

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  More stuff leads to a world of scarcity while better

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  connected, creates abundance and no no feel safe.

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  While yes is it is dangerous.

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  Indeed. Yes is possibility and yes to risk and yes,

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  to looking someone in the eye and telling her truth.

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  Oh, one buttocks Playing is what Ben Zander would have

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  you do to play the piano and mean it to

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  sit up, to lean in, to perform.

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  It adds very best, very less chance Toe with the

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  song inside of you.

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  Get out, Hey, pain pain is the truth of art.

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  Are is not a hobby or pastime is the result

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  of internal battle royal one between the quest for safety

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  and the desire to matter que quality like feed.

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  But feedback.

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  It's a trap to focus on reliable meeting spect specifications

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  they find different definition of quality is to cysts.

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  Surrender to the rial work, which is to matter.

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  Quality of performance is a given.

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  It's not the point.

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  Our remix.

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  Reuse, respect.

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  Recycle, revisit, reclaim, reverse resort art doesn't repeat itself that

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  it rhymes.

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  It's really, really great line for learning.

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  Shame is the flip side of vulnerability.

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  We avoid opening ourselves up to the connection art brings

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  because we fear that we will finally be seen as

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  a fraud that we are.

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  I believe that's called the Imposter Syndrome Tether.

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  T is the safety cable we refused to use.

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  Art feels fatal because art makes us vulnerable the Flying

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  Rolando's, the legendary trapeze and type of family had a

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  slogan. If you fall, you die.

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  Tell them together, you umbrellas, keeping us from getting wet.

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  Why on earth would you use one?

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  Getting wet is the entire point the vulnerable.

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  It's the only way we can feel when we truly

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  share the art we've made.

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  When we share it, when we connect, when we have

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  shifted all the power and made ourselves naked in front

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  of the person we've given the gift of art to,

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  we have no excuses, no manual to point to no

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  standard operating procedure to protect us.

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  And that is our gift.

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  Sharing our work are learning our lessons.

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  Our experience with their scholars is probably the most vulnerable

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  thing we do.

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  But it's also the biggest gift that we have to

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  give ourselves is to allow ourselves to be oh, vulnerable.

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  See, it was a chime because that allows us to

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  grow, don't you warranty?

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  Look, the warrant een of merchant ability is the legal

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  principle that guarantees that someone, something you buy will do

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  what the seller promises.

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  It will your work and art doesn't come with one.

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  Your art might not work, and your career might not

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  work either.

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  If it doesn't work today, it might not work tomorrow,

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  either, but our practice is to persist.

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  Until it done, it's done.

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  X. This is the back is a pirate ship.

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  The real kind, not the sore, that selfish, evil violent

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  for 10 pirates in Somalia.

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  Use artist pirates, steal in order, remix and then give

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  back. It's OK to be a pirate and go out

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  and take things to use for your own.

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  Why Youth isn't a NUMBER It's an attitude.

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  So many disruptive artists have been youngsters.

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  Even the old ones are isn't a genetic or chronological

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  destiny. It's a choice open to anyone willing to trade

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  pain in exchange for the magic and see sob.

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  Uh oh, yeah, I have no idea how to pronounce

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  that Saba Ge Leone zabaglione.

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  Does that work for you works for May is a

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  delightful Italian dessert.

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  Now I got to go out and try it.

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  Now I'm hungry.

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  Consisting mostly of well whipped foam, it takes a lot

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  of effort to make by hand.

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  Each batch comes out a little different from the previous

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  one. It's often delicious.

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  It doesn't last long, it's effervescent, and then you have

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  to or get to make another batch.

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  What we do is art.

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  What we create is educator is art every day, every

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  minute, every second of our day.

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  But these A B C's remind us how we need

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  to be as artists as educators and embrace the world

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  so that our scholars can also work through these A

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  B C's on their own.

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  It is our job is artist to make sure we

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  provide the best of the best out there.

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  I hope that you get to practice the's a veces

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  if not take a chance, baby for vulnerable and put

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  these into practice.