Your Creative Push

You might know Kent Gustavson as an award-winning author, for his biography on musician Doc Watson called Blind But Now I See.  Or you might know him as a musician and producer, with 14 critically acclaimed albums. Or if you are a student at Stony Brook University in New York, you might know him as a teacher. Or maybe you know him as a public speaker and perhaps you have already been inspired by him from his Ted Talk, "We Are Alive." Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/drkent In this episode, Kent discusses: -How in college he did a lot of soul searching to "find himself," but a near-fatal car wreck with his father made it clear to him that he should do what he loves doing. -How he loves how art teachers see the world. -How the idea that "there are no mistakes" really changed the way he thought about things. -Jazz musicians and their ability to turn a mistake into a feature of the music. -How anticipating mistakes make them easier to deal with and much easier to learn from. -Training your ability to "