Chris Wink
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Blue Man Group
New York, NY
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"I think achievement is way overrated. I really do. It’s not a source of happiness."
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Chris's Open Road
Chris Wink, like a lot of students, didn’t know where his life was headed, but had a variety of interests and loved to learn. Realizing, however, that learning wasn’t a career to sustain life, he started feeling the undeniable pressure to make money. Unfortunately, Chris didn’t receive much encouragement to follow what he calls the 'bliss path'. Chris was faced with this challenge to either choose a career that would make him money, also making him unhappy, or to go down the bliss path. With very little, he started the Blue Man Group with his two other friends. This life wasn’t about the awards, the fame, or the achievements, but the day-to-day process of preparing for a show and doing what he loves to do with his friends, walking down his 'bliss path.'
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When is the last time you took a risk?


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The last time I took a risk...
We take a risk every day by walking out the door without a plan.
I think this really ties into the ideas that are confronted in the movie "Little Miss Sunshine" about Proust and taking what life is as its worst moments and not measuring the value of a life by its achievements, also its the journey down the road that ultimately matters.
Be satisfied with what you do everyday, not just the end product. I love that!! If you "follow your bliss" (Joseph Campbell was a brilliant brilliant man) you'll he happy along the way, even through the hardships. Beautiful.
Wow! This guy is nuts! (like nuts, meaning awesome...)
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