Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)
Podcast for people too stubborn to quit and too creative not to make a difference!Join visual artist Pat Benincasa in conversation with a riveting roster of guests to uncover extraordinary stories of everyday people. Listen as they share their quirky wisdom, unlikely adventures, and poignant life lessons! Fasten your emotional seatbelt for this journey of heart, humor and grit!
Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)
When Quitting Opens A Door -A Circle with Anoo Kulkarni
In this episode Anoo Kulkarni shares how one decision morphed into a transition of possibilities. What some might call midlife crisis, for Anoo it was midlife clarity.
When she realized that it wasn't that she didn't like her job, it was that she didn't like it enough, she began her journey to become a masterful woodworker, creating beautiful, hand-crafted lamps. She candidly shares the ups and downs of her road less traveled.
Anoo Kulkarni is a designer and creator of hand-crafted lamps and owner of A Gentle Light. She lives in Bangalore India
QUOTE HIGHLIGHTS
ANOO: "...I've learned to respect the wood, to respect the tools. You have to bend yourself and curve yourself and...shape yourself around the wood and the tools and not the other way around."
ANOO: "I think perfectionism has a certain rigidity to it... you ... limit yourself to just that one possibility, the moment you say that something has to be perfect...there's nothing fluid. There's nothing easygoing about it. There's nothing relaxed. There's a certain tension to see... imperfection."
ANOO: “... the biggest part...will be how I feel about what I'm doing and how little dissonance there is inside me in what I'm doing. For me, that would be a measure of success. The more dissonance there is inside me, the less happy I am on the whole. “
LINKS
A Hundred Hands (Facebook) “In the words of woodworker Anoo Kulkarni
101 Things to Make by Janet Slingsby and David Mostyn
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