How to Find your Purpose - Rhythmical Mike

Rhythmical Mike is a spoken word artist from Derbyshire. He performs across the UK and has made recent appearances in venues as diverse as YNot festival, Bearded theory, London’s Chill Pill, Sheffield Hallam University, sharing the stage with high profile artists such as Russell Brand, Rizzle Kicks, Hollie McNish and Akala. As well as poetry performances, Rhythmical Mike regularly runs poetry workshops and recitals for schools, youth centres, charities and more around the country. He spoke at the Telegraph Festival of Education 2017. Rhythmical Mike’s poetry will be featured in a forthcoming publication from Independent Thinking Press, ‘Working Class’ edited by Ian Gilbert. His first collection of poetry is soon to be published “Life’s beautiful game”. Rhythmical Mike is also a star of YouTube, with poems such as ‘Smile’ and ‘You Got This’ gaining many thousands of hits. His short film of ‘Life’s Beautiful Game’ is winning him admirers across the world. Mike's Takeaways Our path isn’t defined by school that’s just the first steps. If you have a loved one who is struggling with the school system, show them that it’s not the be all in life, there are thousands of professions we all know people who are making money doing nothing that that was taught in school. They need reminding. Also that they are strange for not knowing what they want to do for the rest of their life aged 15! Not many people do! Make sure your child hasn’t had his confidence knocked at school especially if he’s dyslexic, we hide it well, looking back on my life I realised I had the belief it’s better to be the naughty kid than to feel stupid kid Show them spoken word, grime, rap film studies if they aren’t engaged with English and see it this engages them. Young adults open up and are so much more engaged if you show your vulnerability abs any hardship with them first otherwise they can just think you’re one of them, what do you know! If you don’t know where you’re going or what it why, Then taken that one next step and following your curiosity is always enough, this is where your joy will be. Listen go the friends you meet, the trips you want to go on and it will unfold. Quite often travelling and going away is the most amazing mission and self discovery but the change and what mark you can make of the world will be at home! Look around in your community and see what you can offer. Us creatives see the invisible stuff you will know what your town needs. Look and see what lights you up? What makes you obsessed? What makes you not look at your phone? That’s the thing everything else can be learned as a skill, passion is uniquely yours. If there’s not a scene, make a scene Contact Mike  https://theoldfarmbus.co.uk/ http://www.rhythmicalmike.co.uk/