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The Vocational Approach At Nocca (new Orleans Center For The Creative Arts) Helps Build Grit In Students. It Teaches Them How To Be Single-minded In Pursuit Of A Goal, To Sacrifice For The Sake Of A Passion. The Teachers Demand Hard Work From Their Kids Because They Know, From Personal Experience, That Creative Success Requires Nothing Less.

I Always Wanted To Be A Scientist, I Always Thought I'd Be A Scientist, That Was The Narrative I Was Carrying Around. I Worked In A Neuroscience Lab As An Undergraduate And Then After, Almost Five Years In Total, But I Realized I Just Wasn't Good At Science. I Didn't Have The Discipline For It.

When We Venture Beyond The Edge Of Our Knowledge, All We Have Is Art.

Rejection Process Is Not Fun. It's The Red Pen On The Page, The Discarded Sketch, Sometimes Is The Only Way Forward.

Cities Force Us To Interact With Strangers And With The Strange. They Pry The Mind Open. And That Is Why They Are The Idea That Has Unleashed So Many Of Our New Ideas.