One of the most difficult things in life is finding your passion. It’s a sad fact, but some people never even end up finding their passion. Life gets in the way, and the majority of people just end up at a boring day job.
What is the point of this? I know people need to pay the bills, but life can be so much more fulfilling if people just find their passion and try to make a living at it. It won’t be easy, but who said it would be easy?
Most things in life are NOT easy. Anything worth anything is hard work. If someone extremely successful or rich tells you that life is easy, they are just fooling you. Life maybe easy for them now, but do you think it was easy getting to that point? Hell no!
Life is also full of obstacles and challenges. In order to become successful, you need to learn how to be patient and overcome these obstacles and challenges. This is where thinking creatively can come into play!
When I was in school, one of the best decisions I made was to study film scoring at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. I loved this program because music has always been my passion, and I was surrounded by other creative people.
While I was in school, I learned one of the most valuable skills of my life – trouble shooting technical problems with my computer. We all know that technology is fickle and often times doesn’t act the way it should.
As a film score composer, you have to know how to trouble shoot in case things go wrong at the last minute. Anything can go wrong at anytime in the film-scoring world and you have to be prepared for the worst-case scenario in any situation.
Troubleshooting can also be considered thinking creatively. When you troubleshoot, you have to think of every possible reason why something isn’t working the way it should. It’s deductive reasoning until you figure out the problem. It’s kind of like solving a problem on a test with multiple-choice answers.
No, it can’t be that because of this. It has to be that because this works, or that doesn’t work, etc. This is the thought process of troubleshooting and once you learn how to do this, you can apply it to almost anything in life.
I hope this article taught you something about overcoming challenges and how to use creative thinking to overcome obstacles in different areas of your own life!
