Insanely Gifted

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Jamie Catto. Insanely Gifted

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INSANELY GIFTED

Jamie Catto runs personal development workshops worldwide. His teaching builds on his own experience of overcoming creative hurdles, and provides techniques that invite everyone to fulfil their potential. He was also a founding member of dance mega-group Faithless and acclaimed global music and philosophy project 1 Giant Leap.

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DAEMONS VS DEMONS

In the good old days back in Ancient Greece ‘daemons’ were divine helpers rather than problems. The Romans called this kind of attendant spirit ‘genius’, so rather than an individual being a genius, the genius was a divine entity that was believed to live in the walls of the artist’s studio and would come out and assist or inspire in their creativity. Your daemon was your friend, a sort of semi-magical being who lived half in this world and half in the spirit world, unbound by the same earthy laws as you and I. It could run ahead down the path and warn us of approaching hazards. They were there to show us stuff. In fact, as my pal and anarchic workshop creator Dave Rock told me recently, the word ‘monster’ comes from the French word ‘montrer’ meaning to show. Hence our word for ‘demonstrate’. Long ago, if you committed a crime or indecency in France you would be dressed up as the exaggerated version of your crime and paraded around the village as a cautionary tale to others.

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