They hold themselves with a sense of worthiness that can almost be felt in their presence. They are not afraid of being seen or heard. If there is someone they want to talk to, they will have the confidence to make the first approach. If they have a question, they will be willing to ask it. The people who tend to attract others typically exert a level of self-assuredness.
There is a difference between arrogance and having high levels of self-worth. We all have a deep need and desire to be truly seen, and a warm and magnetic person ensures we feel that way. They concentrate on nothing more than the person in front of them.
When they are being spoken to, they truly listen. Here are 4 things people with warm personalities do, which we can all do, to help us stand out and shine brightly in this world. On the flight back home I began to think about those I had remembered from the large group, or who I had really connected with, and what they had in common.Īs I sat with these thoughts it became clear to me that these magnetic people tend to have a few things they do naturally that seem to make people want to flock towards them like a moth does to a flame.
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After sitting through 2 full days of seminars I made some truly meaningful connections with people who had just a day before been strangers. I was lucky enough to attend a Workshop with a few hundred people in Chicago last week. I bet you know at least one person who just seems to radiate this sort of light. Typically they are bright and smile a lot, but it’s often hard to identify the other things that set them apart. Often times they seem to have a glow about them or perhaps their eyes appear to sparkle. Magnetism is that energy that some people seem to emit that makes you want to be near them. If you want to be remembered fondly I believe you need to have high levels of magnetism. In fact, I think it is almost the opposite. Moody.Ĭontrary to belief, I don’t think the greatest way to make yourself seen in a crowd is to be loud. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.” Dwight L. Perhaps museums can’t be museums until we in the community tell them they are that.“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. I can’t call myself an artist.” This quote resonates with me through time and can be applied to not only artists, but anyone who works in the art world - be it a curator, art handler, program manager, gallery attendant, or museum director. He once said, “I am not an artist until the community tells me that I am. To get there, institutions within this field will have to adopt the thinking of New Orleans native artist and legend John T. Through New Orleans’ existence as the most African city in North America, our collective pathway back to the essence of the “art” within our humanity is much clearer here than other places. New Orleans is a prime location for a revolution that challenges artists and curators to return to more humanistic roots. Before there was greed, hypercapitalism, and gaudy overabundance, there was iwontúnwonsi. Before there was a multi-trillion-dollar unregulated global art industry there was empathy and humanity. 12–15 CE) terracotta (photo by Bin im Garten via Wikimedia)īefore there were “curators,” there was amewa. These types of words and roots are what I believe to be more resonant with prioritizing what is good for the collective and communally shared experience and understanding.Ī sculpture of an Ife king or dignitary in the collection of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin (ca. Amewa translates to “connoisseur” or “knower of beauty,” beauty within the ideal of iwontúnwonsi: that sweet spot between not too much or too little (i.e., not too short or too tall). One of my favorites is amewa, from the Yoruba people of Africa. Several years ago I learned that instead of the term “art,” in many African and Indigenous languages there are words that describe beauty or creative expression and those who engage in this practice. Through this lens, art was understood without the pretense of pseudo-superior thought and existence. Prior to the term “art” being defined as “skill resulting from learning or practice” in 13th-century Middle English (which was in turn derived from the Latin ars meaning “skill” or “craft,”), art in communities such as Ifẹ̀ ( an ancient Yoruba city in southwest Nigeria) was simply a translation of a feeling or experience into a physical object to be shared with others - sometimes having a royal or spiritual significance. When I say that “art and artists need to die,” I mean the concepts and foundations of these two things as manifestations of imperial-induced greed and elitism need to die, in order to be reborn.
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