Earning a Living - Part 2: Human Ingenuity & Creativity - Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

so the ultimate outcome belongs in factors that humans have no control over but the middle part is important so the middle part is what we're going to call human ingenuity and creativity this is what we're going to call it so part of part of the joy of living is using your ingenuity and creativity could you see where this is so okay so I'm going to take you on a side trip due to due to two will get back here okay you know the Torah forbids speaking badly about other people unless there's an overriding benefit you know this this is full Russian hora other people who are lush in her addicts think journalism okay there are the people who love to read it and people who love to write it so I'm not concerned with the people who love to write it from for this particular moment I'm concerned about why people want to read it why do people like the human drama so much so I would suggest that our longing for meaning for real achievement for real drama and our own lives leave such an open space if it's not filled with real creativity and achievement that living vicariously is really for some people the only other option does that make sense to you and like today with the way media works even human connection which is also a deep need if people don't have it for whatever reason sometimes the reason is only technical there they live lives that are crazy they'll create artificial connections because they can't bear being unconnected so you go on facebook how many Facebook friends do you have this throw number eight hundred and that's that's like normal it's not crazy okay so let's say you know you you could type in what you made for dinner because it's let's say made a fascinating dinner eight hundred people have their friends right okay read it okay you feel like you connect it but you don't even know all these people possibly but it gives the feeling of connection whether it carries with it the reality of connection or not that makes sense to you okay it's not evil it's just a loser okay clear okay so God wants us to live lives that are real so for that reason he created a world that doesn't operate without the middle piece he wants us to use our creativity our ingenuity and to do achievements that are actual hit clear so that's one part of it another part of it this is the main part of it another part of it is it also creates challenge now when you talked about challenge challenge is always 5050 if you're using the word challenge or honestly so it means that there's at least as much chance to fail as there is to succeed so the challenges would have two phases one is is what you're defining is your challenge in life this is what you do this is what you produce this is where you're using your ingenuity your creativity is it really benefiting anyway so virtually everything you people said does bring benefit at least potentially photography brings benefit exploration brings benefits certainly working with the homeless Briggs benefit fashion brings benefit aesthetically it's real if you use it right okay could fashion be used badly that's the one that's easiest heat what would be a bad use of fashion right right right so somebody out there in the fashion world is sitting in a meeting and she knows this person knows that the baby boomers were presently the biggest market okay although the millenniums are getting up there but the biggest market is still the baby boomers numerically how old are they they're in their 60s they are thinking of ways to make them buy clothes so don't look good on them isn't that true okay so this is not beneficial but fashion could be enormously created and beneficial and so certainly could film producing give me an example of a film that brought benefit to the world so give 11 oh yes give me one that didn't bring benefit to the world okay okay say homie reveal Islamic my boss i'm in personal right did you see where spike lee actually does harm yeah okay clear our mom yeah Mel Gibson Bell Gibson does harm yeah okay so it depends on what you do with it okay you can see this the same certainly holds true for graphic design the same certainly holds true even for something that the team is only beneficial is hearing aids design how could that be used in a way that's corrupted you can't you can't do it because here in design but are you you're not in the design of hearing aids what are you doing on crease on myself up so you know that marketing could be that's exactly when go marketing could corrupt the whole thing how could marketing corrupt the whole thing false advertising pricing it out of the range of anybody but the wealthy okay clear so this middle part presents you with the challenge you