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      • As an art student, Phil Hansen’s intense style of pointillism led to a tremor in his hand and a diagnosis of nerve damage.
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  2. As an art student, Phil Hansen’s intense style of pointillism led to a tremor in his hand and a diagnosis of nerve damage. Devastated, he dropped out and lost his way ... until a neurologist suggested he “embrace the shake.”

  3. May 21, 2013 · In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of purpose. Until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation ... and transcend it.

  4. Mar 5, 2013 · So how did Hansen happen upon such fascinating methods? By embracing a major limitation — a hand tremor that made it impossible for him to do the pointillist drawings he loved. The theme of transcending constraints and roadblocks was a major theme at TED2013.

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    In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of purpose. Until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation ... and transcend it.

  6. Feb 26, 2013 · In art school, Phil Hansen developed a shake in his hand. He couldn’t so much as draw a straight line anymore. After years of excelling in pointillism, his tight grip of the pen had caused permanent nerve damage. “To me this was doomsday. This was the destruction of my dream of becoming an artist,” says Hansen in his talk in Session 2 of ...

  7. Aug 7, 2013 · The image Hansen created out of these stories is based on a photo he took years ago, shortly after he developed a tremor in his hand that led to him leaving art school. “This photo represents to me this ambiguous time in my life where I didn’t know where I was going or what I was doing,” Hansen explains.

  8. In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation... and transcend it.

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