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Leonard Cohen, Gladwell explains, is an experimental innovator, because he had worked for days, months, and even years slowly and steadily to fight to create Hallelujah. In contrast, Ed Sheeran is an example of a conceptual innovator. In a documentary called Nine Days and Nights of Ed Sheeran, filmed for MTV, Ed sheeran explains that he had been writing songs since he was young and he was influenced greatly “after [he] listened to an album by Damien Rice when [he] was about 11 or 12 years old,” and because of this, Ed started playing gigs at age 14 and writing two to three songs a week. In 2009, Sheeran lost his house and Started living with friends and performing his songs whenever he got the chance to, he was 18 at the time, and explains in the documentary that “there were moments where [he] wanted to give up,” just like many musicians when times get tough. According to NY Times journalist Jon Caramanica in his article “Ed Sheeran, Lighter and Wiser, Releases ‘X’,” Ed Sheeran “is nothing but unassuming, and…[is] definitely modest… He began playing small gigs as a teenager, encouraged by his father, who told him he could leave school behind as long as he was working hard toward something,” which is quite unlike many