Sting: "Ideal music is silence, but the musicians' job is to create a beautiful frame around this perfection"
The life and work of 65-year-old Sting can serve as an excellent example of how a person "made himself." Persistently moving towards his goal and realizing his own psychological properties in the most creative way, the musician continues to receive full-fledged enjoyment from his life today and is not going to stop there.
The world-renowned British composer, singer and musician Sting is celebrating his 65th birthday this year. As before, he continues to create and perform music, stay fit, practice yoga, and grow organic produce on his farm. An excellent example of a developed and fully realized personality - the owner of the skin and sound vectors.
“When my uncle emigrated to Canada, he left a guitar in our attic. This is how I found my best friend in my life."
Music entered the life of Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (Sting's real name) from an early age. The first musical instrument was the piano, which his mother taught him to play. At the age of ten, Gordon discovers the guitar and never leaves it again. Rock, pop, jazz, reggae, soul, new age and others - he works in many styles, tries, combines, weaves elements of the classics, realizing the needs of the sound vector in the search for new sounds.
Having received the skill of playing a musical instrument from childhood, a person with a sound vector acquires the opportunity to realize himself in this direction, at least partially. By mastering the instrument at a professional level, the sound engineer expands his capabilities, gaining the ability for more complex, and therefore more filling him, creative activity as a composer.
In Sting's life, there is always a competitive spirit, dedication, perseverance and a keen desire to work for the result. He even took second place in the sprint competition at one time, but left this occupation, because, in his words, "in sports you are either the first or no one." The expression clearly demonstrates the manifestation of the musician's skin vector.
Sting's statement on the legalization of drugs caused a great resonance. He believes that the existing scheme of combating drug trafficking is ineffective, and the main emphasis should be placed on educating the public about the consequences of drug addiction, while simultaneously developing new ways to solve the problem.
He himself admits that in his youth he took drugs, but moved away from this, filled with the creation of music to a greater extent than immersion in the illusory reality of drugs. The system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan shows that for a sound engineer, drugs can be interesting only when the surrounding reality feels hostile or painful, when suffering from growing voids as a result of a lack of realization forces us to look for another world where there is no such mental pain. If the skill of filling sound properties through one's own activity is present, active self-realization brings greater satisfaction than escape into the artificially created world of drugs. In this case, the need to replace reality disappears as unnecessary. In this world, such a sound person is better than in an illusory one. Here he is able to get more pleasure from creating, for example, music and thereby make his life meaningful, joyful and fulfilling.
Since then, Sting has always adhered to a healthy lifestyle, on his farm in Tuscany, he grows organic vegetables and fruits, and is also involved in winemaking.
Yoga, which the musician has been fond of for many years, is one of the most ascetic types of yoga. It is in this that skin properties are clearly manifested at the same time - self-restraint, discipline, control over your body and the desire to be healthy and look good, as well as a sound desire to comprehend oneself, one's inner world, and the entire human essence.
He has repeatedly said that many people mistakenly understand yoga as an exclusively bodily practice, for him yoga has become a way of life and a way of self-knowledge.
“They didn't bring me anything on a platter when I was young. If I had achieved success immediately, I would not have been able to appreciate how happy I am now."
Born into a rather poor family, having changed several jobs, Sting, even in music, is used to achieving everything on his own, working hard and not stopping to achieve his goal. His work, being at the same time a product of his self-expression, always had a commercial element, his songs became sound tracks for many famous films, topped the charts on radio stations in the UK and the USA, were used at sports events, and many discs went platinum.
The zealous attitude to one's own income, as a property of the skin vector, also manifested itself in a lawsuit against his accountant, who was accused of theft and even sentenced to imprisonment. No matter how much money a leather worker has, they will always have strict accounting and control.
Despite his impressive real estate properties in London, Tuscany and New York, Sting travels quite often and extensively as part of the tour, and also makes pilgrimages on foot in India. Skin desires for novelty and a change of surroundings are here combined with sound aspirations for knowing oneself, approaching truth, and spiritual comprehension of the essence of human life.
“There is a mystery inside the music, very similar to the mystery by which we are here on Earth. There is a message from God in music"
“Message from God” strive to unravel all sound people, only each of them finds his own way. Someone is studying the laws of physics, someone is immersed in the laws of religion and philosophy, others are studying the languages of antiquity, modernity and even virtual programming languages, and musicians are searching for new sounds of music.
"Music talks to me in an abstract way"
Sting, as a sound artist developed and realized in music, hears it inside himself, feels it as an abstract body, which he gives out as his own thought forms - a finished piece of music. This is the realization of sound properties, which brings him the most powerful pleasure from life and an incentive to continue the sound search.
"We need to think about how our human brain works."
Like any public person, Sting cannot stay away from global events. The cold war, nuclear threat, terrorist attack in New York, deforestation in South America and many others are reflected in the musician's work and even in his charitable work.
The musician explains the reason for many tragic events in his interviews by means of his own conclusions on this topic: “The greatest number of problems we have come from misunderstanding, misunderstanding. Problem solving in psychology. Understanding is the first step. The problem is not in politics or in religious philosophy, but in psychology."
Sting's developed intelligence tells him the right direction in the sense that the root of all interpersonal problems is in the psychological differences between people.
The work of the outstanding musician Sting has already been appreciated by numerous fans in various countries, he no longer needs recognition, the size of royalties is also no longer of paramount importance, fame also does not seduce the composer, but he still continues to create his works, record new albums and give concerts.
The fact is that the pleasure that brings a person to the full realization of his psychological properties is incomparable with any other stimuli to activity. In addition, constant creative activity continues to keep a person in excellent physical and intellectual shape, no matter how old he is.
The life and work of 65-year-old Sting can serve as an excellent example of how a person "made himself." Persistently moving towards his goal and realizing his own psychological properties in the most creative way, the musician continues to receive full-fledged enjoyment from his life today and is not going to stop there.
“When I think that 9 million of his CDs have been sold since Michael Jackson's death, I say to the record company, 'Forget it! I'm not ready yet"
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