Art, vision & investment: The trinity of the modern-day hustle.
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
-Walt Disney
Let’s look at what is happening, digital communication is at scale. Art never had this much attention since the renaissance. We have the trade and business economy has always been in the backend. A new trend of the economy is rising, investment. Starting from the silicon valley tech boom, venture capitalists are hoarding startups hoping to jackpot the next facebook.
To state it simply: Art (skill), Vision(entrepreneur) & investment(money), never had the same platform to share. Math and Art have equal standing in the cathedral.
Let's take Disney as a blunt example. We see the artwork. All the characters, sketches, shows, cartoons in play. We see the visionary Walt Disney, who wanted to inspire the world with his cartoon. But every artist needs visionary and money. And every investor needs visionary and artist. And every visionary needs to manage artist and investors. The beauty of Disney is he had it all. He was an artist who had the vision and investment to make it real.
Now you can replace Art with any other skill like programming, dancing, reporting, plumbing, comedy, teacher, dentist, and what skills you can think of. It’s every skill that we can see in our everyday life. But it is lifeless, it doesn’t have the energy and excitement. It’s boring without its counterparts.
Now art needs a vision. Vision gives art life. The aspiration to have a meaning in your art is the vision. Now the vision can be a selfish, selfless or in a continuum. There is no judgment of being selfish or selfless. But to give you my personal answer try to be selfless by being extremely selfish.
Now let me explain, to be honest being selfless for me is very ethereal. If anything happens I intuitively think about me and my. In fact, we always think about I. We cannot pretend it. But we have a variable that is mine. This mine has a boundary. It may include just you and your family. It may include you, your family and your friends. What if you keep pushing your boundary until you reach the entire world? What happens after that? I do not have my “mine” so big, yet. But people have done it. It’s possible. Now you can be selfish and selfless at the same time. In most cases, the Executive is the visionary, But a vision needs financial support to make it into a reality. That’s when investors come in.
Investors are people with money. Individually, investors only have money but no form of expression. They hire Executives with a vision who then manages the artists to make the vision into a reality. But investors expect a share of the vision. Which is valid and fair.
To sum it up, art is the creative aspect with no life. Vision brings life into the work, the excitement, the fervor. Investment is the power to put the use of the money and bring the vision into reality. But what about the modern-day hustle?
What if I told you, you can choose to be all?
Start with developing your art, your skill. Learn to create a business around it, have the vision and start with a small investment, with what you have. With the internet at scale, you can do anything.
Thank you so much dear reader, for staying with me till the end. Your attention means a world to me. I wish my perception can give you a bigger one. One more before you leave, try to meditate on this thought, “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest in themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”- Jeff Bezos. It really makes sense, try it.
