Ken Robinson The Element

A new study published by a New York Next Big Sound (a company, which analyses the popularity of musicians in social networks, streaming services, and radio), has revealed that over 90.7 percent of artists considered as undiscovered. Why is this happening and where the actual reasons are hiding? We can find a comprehensive answer to this question in the Ken Robinson's book The Element, which is the guidebook to the issues that every person, who is seeking for the life's calling asks himself. Becoming a successful artist looks like a traveling under the chasm using a bridge, which built from talent, desire, and attitude towards our own potential. Personal and social factors are some of the most decisive barriers preventing talented people from
Robinson argues, “… it’s not what happens to us that determines our lives—it’s what we make of what happens” (159). Based on the author's thoughts, external factors or circumstances play a significant role in people's lives, but is it really? The author explains that our prosperity and well-being are depending only on inner determination, desire, and self-confidence of each individual person (159). During life, people can face many obstacles, challenges, and problems that we must overcome in order to get our final destination, which is our goal. Some people give up under the pressure of the variety of barriers, some not. The brightest representative of the man, who had a strong feeling of determination and music obsession, was a German composer and piano player Ludwig van Beethoven. Because of a terrible illness, he had completely lost his hearing but continued to write music that still impresses people with its grandeur. This fact proves the rightness of Ken Robinson's words about the significant importance of the attitude. Moreover, this fact clearly proves the fact that not circumstances that happen to us are able to determine human's prosperity and