One more observation here....This one regarding ANTHONY ROBBINS.
I view Anthony in the same light I view a LUCKY ARTIST....
Being a LUCKY ARTIST is a very interesting reflection on society and how people VALUE things....
Dale Chihuly is a classic example:
www.chihuly.com This guy makes glass bowls and sculptures that sell for HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND$ and UP....Somewhere, at some time, Dale got
LUCKY.....The "HERD" decided his glass was worth boat loads of money, while other artists product was worth a FRACTION....
Dale gets $5000 for a glass bowl the size of a tea cup!!!! But it's ART!!
Read the biography on Chihuly.....In between the lines you can see the REAL STORY....This guy uses "TEAMS of Artists" to create his pieces...In other words....a FACTORY!!! But read the glowing way this process is described on the site....The STORY becomes the VALUE!!
Another case in point...
There's a guy in Southern New England that never went to a fancy ART COLLEGE, he actually worked in construction. Even as a carpenter he never had any formal training...Just learned by doing. And from all accounts wasn't a "master carpenter."
So this "carpenter" starts working on an old church...He salvages a half round stained glass window from the building and uses it as a head board for a bed he builds in an old barn he rents.
Here's where it gets INTERESTING....He has this bed in the barn as he puts on some finsihing touches....A woman see's the bed and loves it....She makes him an offer and he sells the bed to her....The BUYER has a connection with ARCHITECTUAL DIGEST MAGAZINE and one of the editiors decides to feature the bed in a small article about reusing building materials. Magazines are in the business of SELLING MAGAZINES....So the article tells the story of an "New England craftsman"
HAND MAKING beautiful custom pieces in an old barn...Making each piece based on what the "wood tells him" blah blah blah....
Well guess what happens to our "construction artist" after that article comes out???
He's now a RESPECTED ARTIST with an "incredible eye" and is working on "COMMISIONED PIECES ONLY."
To re-create that stained glass bed
NOW....After the article.......$55,000!!! But remember.....IT'S ART NOW!!
This same guy just finished a clothing store in the Hamptons that he was paid a fortune for, because the owners wanted it to look like it "had been there for 200 years, and only HE had the VISION for the project!!"
PERCEPTION has become REALITY!!Tony Robbins is "good" because OTHER PEOPLE say he's GOOD. Art becomes VALUABLE when OTHER PEOPLE call it ART and say it's good....That creates demand for it.....It's only valuable if the "STORY" is worth the price!
Thus another LUCKY ARTIST is BORN!!!!
Robbins CREATES NOTHING......He SELLS himself as an "expert/artist" and was smart enough to get FAMOUS PEOPLE to endorse his methods.
THOSE people created the "Artist know as Tony Robbins" the same way A.D. created the "New England Construction Artist"
In the end Rookie is exactly right.......
"What does Tony Robbins know about business."
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