Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
Interpretation
Focus on your strengths instead of your insecurities to achieve success.
This quote by Russell Brand emphasizes the importance of allowing our talents to guide our decisions and actions rather than being held back by negative self-perception. By recognizing and leveraging our natural abilities, we can navigate through challenges and self-doubt more effectively, transforming our lives and dreams into reality while still managing our insecurities responsibly.
In practice
In a motivational speech to young artists, you could say this quote to encourage them to embrace their creative talents.
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.
I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.
I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.
Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.
When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.
What one does easily, one does well.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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