Newsweek named Aaron Dworkin as one of the 15 people who make America great, but he was a bi-racial, adopted violin undergraduate with no money or connections when he had the idea for The Sphinx Organisation. ‘Have you practiced?’ asked his teacher? ‘No,’ he said, ‘But I’ve had a really good idea…’
20 years on, and with a laundry list list of honours and awards, he joins me to talk about how hundreds of rejections never dented his determination to transform representation in classical music, and his own, huge creative force that keeps taking him into new fields.
You’ll be fired up and inspired by:
* Why music practice was the the perfect preparation for taking on a huge, challenging project
* The huge role that mentors play in his life, and how he finds them
* The significance of partnerships rather than sponsors (and this is SO valuable, not matter what you want to launch)
* How to get people to give you money (“Who has more money than the president of the World Bank?”)
* Performance poetry and his latest science fiction novel
Outside or inside?
We also talk about how he keeps his outsider position and uses it to keep challenging and making change. Feeling powerless? This is a great listen if you’re not sure how to get heard for something that REALLY matters to you.
Be more like Aaron… Feeling distracted from that drive and purpose? Get my FREE guide to helping you beat distraction and do work that really makes a difference. Just click to download.
Want more focus to make your decisions? Get The Creative’s Distraction Buster, my free instant guide to how you can be more focused and more creative, immediately. Because we creatives don’t work in the same way as the rest of the world, and this is just for you, right now.
Never miss an episode!
Subscribe to the Creative Life Show on iTunes