“I have my fears, but they do not have me”
Peter Gabriel’s album New Blood has shuffled on to my playlist. Listening to the song “Darkness” while on a long run/hike this weekend, the lyric “I have my fears, but they do not have me” stood out. Fear does not force paralysis.
Leaders are perceived as fearless, yet this external judgement rests on how the leader functions rather than feels.
At the recommendation of a friend, I also watched Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) this weekend. I always thought this documentary was about street art, but that’s only a partial description. The film serves as a case study on role models, timing, vision, and rule breaking.
The focus of the film is the excellent and ridiculous Thierry Guetta. At one point he says “I don’t know how to play chess, but to me, life is like a game of chess.”
Despite his not knowing, Thierry manages to play and, by many measures, win.
Others see Thierry as crazy and fearless . . . a different sort of emotional being than them. But so much of this chasm of difference is in the eye of the beholder.
All I (want to) see is someone who started something big and saw it through.
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