Living more than your cubicle life

An engineer, Mel Rusnov also loves music and describes cultivating that passion in her essay "The Artistry in Hidden Talents" in the book This I Believe:

"I believe in cultivating hidden talents, buried and unrelated to what we do for a living. In ordinary life, I'm a civil engineer. I make a satisfying, comfortable living working quietly in my cubicle. But in my other life, I am a pianist, bringing to life with my own hands the genius of Bach, Mozart and Chopin.

"I believe we are more than the inhabitants of our cubicles, more than engineers or even parents, husbands and wives. I believe we are transformed and connected by the power and beauty of our creativity."

Continued on The Inner Entrepreneur
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