In Phil Hansen’s TED Talk, he talks about “embracing the shake”. Phil Hansen is a very talented artist, but he began to have a problem with the nerves in his hand. The shake in his hand was affecting his artwork so much, he decided to drop out of art school and just quit art as a whole. After several years without art, he decides that he cannot avoid it any longer. He embraces his shake and takes on a different approach of art. By embracing his limitation, he is more successful than ever. Everybody has some sort of “shake”. My shake is that I feel emotions too deeply. I feel emotion very intensely and overwhelmingly. I often trust too easily and forgive too frequently. I feel vulnerable and as if people walk all over me because they know
