Categories: general-nonsense
Tags: General Nonsense
Date: 13 September 2009 14:09:31
Facinating interview in the Telegraph, by Bernadette McNulty with Cerys Matthews.
Reading the interview there were a couple of things that struck me:
1) Whilst we are told that people don't get words like sin and stuff anymore she is quoted as saying, '“You have to take risks,” she says, “risking nothing is the saddest sin of all.” '
Think that there is alot of truth in that.
2)second quote that struck me was, ' “For the first time, people are trusting me to do things and I am proving I am perfectly capable of doing them,” she says. “I think you can give the impression when you have been in a rock band for 10 years that all you can do is make noise and drink until dawn. But I have a lot more interests than the clichés of rock and roll. That is what is different now. I’ve got my own production company. I’ve made this record myself: produced it, written it, recorded it. I felt it was time for some self-determination.”'
In order for people to achieve and be able to benefit from their risk taking trust is involved. The mix of self-determination and trust from others is important.
3) final quote that hit home was, '“I haven’t changed in 20 years but sometimes the rest of the world catches up with you,” she says.'
Wonder if this is what is happening with a number of us who the marketing men called Gen X. Suddenly we are hitting our late 30's and early 40's and finding out that somehow, rather wonderfully, the world has caught up with where we have been for much of the time.