Multiple creative passions - Eisa Davis and Barbara Sher

Eisa Davis (rhymes with Lisa) is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright, actor, singer and songwriter. She is a graduate of Harvard and has an M.F.A. from the Actors Studio. In this Gap commercial, she talks about her deep need to keep engaging all her creative talents.

Gap commercial: Eisa Davis was Born To Do It All
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31nferwZYI

Video clip - Barbara Sher: What You Love is What You Are Gifted At - from her last Scanner retreat in France. Barbara says, "Building a successful life begins with seeing the importance of doing everything you love."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhhiatvjzUk

She says, "Unlike those people who seem to find and be satisfied with one area of interest, you're genetically wired to be interested in many things, and that's exactly what you've been trying to do."

[From article Are You a Scanner?, by Barbara Sher.]
http://talentdevelop.com/articles/AYAS.html

Related video: Being scattered and proud of it
http://blip.tv/file/2377845

Related posts:

Choosing multiple passions being a Scanner
http://talentdevelop.com/726/

Being "scattered" and proud of it
http://talentdevelop.com/723/

"Scanners are basically happy people - or would be if the world quit trying to make them commit to only one of their many interests and just settle down. For a Scanner to choose one path is like a parent deciding which of his children to feed that day. It's out of the question. No matter how little food, every child must eat. And no matter how little time, every interesting path must be explored." Barbara Sher, in an issue of her newsletter [see www.barbarasher.com]

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[aravindh2002]

Not to be a boasting jerk but I draw, paint, play the guitar, do amateur astronomy, and read philosophy. Kinda sympathize with you :)