Embrace the Shake | Phil Hansen | TED Talks

In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of purpose. Until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation ... and transcend it. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Enterta The artist having permanent nerve shake in his hand is talking about the way he developed creativity through limitation. His most impressive quote: “It really became a moment of clarification for me that we need to first be limited in order to become limitless.“