Discovering Your True North: Unleashing the Power of Finding Your Calling

What’s it look like to let go of the outcome?

The Smithsonian collection contains masterpieces by da Vinci, Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir, Monet, and Pollock, to name just a few.

There is one piece, a sculpture, in the Smithsonian collection titled “The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly.”

It’s a massive piece totaling 180 components in overall configuration and measures 10 1/2 x 27 x 14 1/2 ft.

The sculpture was created by James Hampton.

Who?

James Hampton may not be a household name.

But, he is the embodiment of pursuing one’s calling.

The artist worked in total solitude in a small rented garage for over fourteen years. He told no one about his project, not family, not friends, not colleagues.

The same colleagues who would have found it extraordinary that Hampton was utilizing discarded material he discovered while working as a janitor at the Smithsonian.

By day he collected jelly jars, coffee cans, scrap wood, metal, deceased light bulbs, and tin foil.

By night he swam with the gods in a sea of creativity, transforming other’s trash…