Let Magic Happen

Daft Punk, showing up as an artist and creating the environment for magic
Nov 26, 2022
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Let magic happen:

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Let magic happen.

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Put yourself in circumstances where you’re more likely to experience magic.

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To experience something that transcends you.

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Something that outlives you.

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Just watched Daft Punk’s ‘One More Time’ Music Video.

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It’s an all timer.

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It got me thinking.

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This song, released more than 20 years ago, is still loved by millions.

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Yet they started 7 years before.

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For 7 years, before they blew up internationally, they had to keep working on their craft.

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They had to commit to the work.

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Commit to the grind of showing up.

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Trying.

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Creating.

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Coming up with something new but based on old influences.

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Hoping that it’ll be magic.

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Here’s the lesson - you can’t control that.

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You have no idea when magic will be created.

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All of that is outside your control.

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But what is in your control as an artist is effort.

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It’s work

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It’s production.

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It’s showing up and sharing your gift again and again.

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So much is outside our control, yet we choose to focus on it rather than what we can do.

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Listen, most of your life will happen to you, not for you.

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It’s your job to handle what comes and do your best to control what you can do.

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So focus your time on something.

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Focus your time on creating.

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Creating something.

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Something that only you know how to do.

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Sure you’ll fail.

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But that’s the point.

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Success comes with failure.

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If you don’t fail, you don’t succeed.

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If you don’t fail, you’ll never see magic.

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So fail more.

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Fail so you can let magic happen.

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'Keep Going You're Doing Great'

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