On Fame
My friend and coach, Hutt Bush whose book, Tougher Times is offered as a free download to new NPD subscribers publishes a daily blog,
Following is his blog for today and my response. To subscribe to his blog, click here.
Those of us who live in Los Angeles are constantly aware of the city’s draw for those seeking fame. People come from all over the world to develop careers in show business. Their sheer ambition of wanting to become famous is often raw and sometimes scary.
What has been your relationship to fame? Is it something you have ever wanted? Do you understand it? Do you respect it, despise it, pity it, or scratch your head over it?
If there were an equivalent in your life to ambition for fame, what would it be? Do you desire to be known and held up on a pedestal by anyone – even one person or a small group of people?
What happens to people who achieve fame? Do you find their ambition worth their effort? In a culture that holds celebrities up as demi-gods, what are your points of view about a desire – an ambition – to be famous?
- Posted on July 23, 2010 in blogs |
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Response to “Exploring The Ambition To Be Famous”
Jeff Hutner said:
Perhaps our need for fame comes from an insecurity within. Perhaps it is a need to be loved when we were not nourished enough in our fundamental relationships and we have forgotten to love ourselves and seek that affection outside.
Ultimately having others adore us may be good for the ego but its usually at the expense of the soul and our deepest connection to what we are most passionate about. It also would appear to come from a need to do rather than to be. If the doing comes out of the being and from listening and acting on our soul’s calling, what others think is unimportant and we derive our satisfaction in life from our internal compass.
The fame game can cost us what really matters and exchange it for an outer directed life that is dependent on others for our joy. To me, this represents nothing more than a second hand life.
So I seek not fame but to follow my soul’s calling and be true to that. And should any project I create or co-create be successful, I realize it is simply one color in my life’s palette that may fade in time and that my life is a work of art with its own unique set of colors making up the picture of who I am.
If I live life authentically, I may one day find it reflects a completely new color that is not available to those who try and please others by offering popular colors in order to have them glorify their egos.