9.8.14 What do we really know about A3?

Aww, you are all so sweet. Thank you everyone. I'm just a little one of these, amongst so many here, who contribute so much more. 



All the threads that are done look sooooo beautiful. 

About A3, I agree the secrecy is linked to the launch - it is something out of the ordinary, something in the vein of Beyonce's simply dropping her new music unexpectedly, but not exactly this. Whatever it is, it will be exciting and in a different league to the past dull-as-dishwater marketing approaches taken by RCA.

For some reason, my gut tells me that Adam has even more control over this project in terms of creative and business approaches than previously. Have no idea why. It will again have a theme because he likes to present vignettes within a holistic context, or more simply tell a story, but who knows what that will be this time.

Nothing about Adam is linear, which is one of the things that is so fascinating about him. I have known a few truly gifted people in my life, some artistic, others intellectually and the characteristic that defines them is that their development and expression is asynchronous, because of the depths of what is available to them. Having observed Adam over the years, the fact that he took time to 'grow into' himself as a man (a self-described 'late bloomer') and as an artist is not unusual. It reflects the complexity of his nature and his artistry and the time and discipline it can take to focus self-expression within the narrower path that is demanded by business. His natural tendency is to expand, not limit.

To me his is juggling a number of gifts - obviously the artistic/creative one; more subtly this is seen in his so-called perfectionism. What this is generally saying in terms of expressing this gift is that he finds it difficult to draw a box around something and stop because he can see and feel so many other possibilities and it is difficult to make a choice about the 'best' because the other options, in many cases are equally as good. Maybe Pharrell was teaching him about trusting one point in time and what happens in that particular moment, rather than needing to do endless takes.

I think most of us can clearly see that he is emotionally gifted - highly gifted - and it can be so hypersensitive that it can become painful - and it can take years to be able to learn how to ground yourself and detach yourself from the feelings of others, and to manage what can be a constant 'overload' of sensory input. I believe he was expressing this gift most clearly in Broken Open. It is also expressed by his desire to connect and not to harm, but rather to enhance, find a more loving and positive path through life.

He definitely has intellectual gifts, although this is not reflected in academic excellence. One hint, of course is his highly-developed visual memory where he has said that he never forgets a face, and visual artistic expression - his dream of a gold set design for the Queen production, his vision for GNT, his love of 'dress up'. Gifted children can often be mis-diagnosed as 'hyperactive'; and when this is the case, most often they are just incredibly bored because they perceive and simply know things in a different way to the 'norm' and unfortunately most of society is geared towards developing the equivalent of human 'widgets'.

I could go on and on and am now way off topic, so perhaps I am in the wrong thread .....