Embrace the Shake - Phil Hansen
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In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation... and transcend it. How can limitations inspire creativity and drive innovation?
Think about what you do in your everyday life. Now remember when something didn’t go quite right or you didn’t have what you needed. What is a creative, or unexpected, solution you’ve used when you had a problem?
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