Turning Your Greatest Weakness Into Your Greatest Gift with Muhammad Seven - a podcast by Jessica Sun

from 2020-05-15T10:05:23

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Muhammad Seven is the vocalist and guitarist for the Americana band Muhammad Seven & the Spring. M7 is an Iranian-American singer/songwriter & garbage man from Boston. He draws inspiration from 70s rock n roll, 90s hip hop, and medieval Persian poetry, with both personal and political statements hidden in his work. He started writing music at 14 and his music was born in the fallout of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Favorite Quotes:

“I either needed to decide to believe in myself or stop torturing myself. And I decided I was going to give it a chance.”

“There is a difference between putting yourself first and putting yourself over other people.”

Takeaways:

It comes down to a moment’s decision when faced with an opportunity, to go for it
Building confidence takes small efforts over time to pay off
What is now your greatest weakness might be your greatest gift, and you don’t need to explain yourself when you have many perspectives and facets to your identity

What you’ll learn:

How M7 incorporates his identity as an activist and an Iranian-American with a white mother into his music
About the struggle of being a Middle Eastern-American musician at a time when they didn’t really exist, and why he stuck with it
Why M7 attributes his confidence to his personal development and catharsis that allowed him to keep creating
How fatherhood affects his music
What it’s like to be a garbage worker and have just received a master’s degree

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Links:

Further episodes of Guru Please

Further podcasts by Jessica Sun

Website of Jessica Sun