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I approach life constantly prepared to justify myself so I’m always answering this question, nearly every question is this question for me. I do this because I require that justification so as to battle severe depression and long standing suicidal obsessions but also most conversations are really boring and very predictable… and you’ll never know if I might pull a rabbit out of my hat when you meet me so at least I can constantly surprise people with my latest ‘extraordinary’ idea.So I walk into every room and every conversation desperate to talk about what I’m doing to avoid death because if I can’t claim something epic I almost instantly feel like I should rage quit. Sometimes it is more of a slow burner but that belly fire is concentrated passion. It’s a powerful motivator and I’m sure plenty of people will see it negatively but I don’t. For one it’s just something I’m passively aware of when I choose to focus on myself in such a way, but I’m generally aware that I have the picture in my pocket should I wish to take it out. I see it as a superpower, my survival instinct is working in my favour and I never tire of forcing it to exhibit itself to quell the muttering.Anything and everything I’m about to say can easily be topped by anyone else given enough time and effort and interest. I have a mood disorder which actually slows me down as I can’t behave in a stabilised way, so anyone more centred could arguably beat me to my goals through a lack of day by day instability. Why they wouldn’t have their own crazy plans is unclear, but my position and belief is clear: human potential is by any fair measure absolutely infinite [barring breaking the laws of the universe obviously].There are unlimited paths to achievement (and ways to define it) and only about 7 billion people currently playing the game (many are not able to or not interested so it’s less but you get my point), as many humans as that is 7 billion is a lot less than infinity.By default as a functional human being you are already potentially a genius in some way or another: the hard part is having (and maintaining) the mindset and willingness to set your goals so high that you cannot help but always fail.A half success of the impossible is far beyond no attempt. So is a tenth success.Finding things that articulate your uniqueness is actually easy if you can figure it out or learn how, reaching an emotional and intellectual position by which you’re unapologetic about and unafraid to highlight a few things about yourself for fear of judgment or backlash, well that’s the true tricky part. People can and will take what you say and twist it to mean something else no matter how much you buffer or how many disclaimers you wave, like me talking positively about myself is somehow now me talking negatively about others even though I largely feel inferior and held back by my mental health issues.Everything is positive, and negative, and neither, and both, and some variable we cannot yet comprehend.I am not that smart, not that accomplished, and I don’t claim to be… but I am the master of writing my own narrative and coming out feeling good about who and what I am despite the struggles I face. I live in the wiggle room and slam down overwhelming evidence in my favour at every opportunity. That’s my self motivation instinct, if you haven’t beaten me at my favourite game your opinion is disqualified, if you haven’t even heard of my game then obviously you’re even more disqualified. I also refute any and all comparisons between people, it’s a pointless exercise. Don’t aim to be better than the best just be better than your current best and keep doing that since you can at least know yourself to beat yourself.I don’t consider it possible to truly know anyone else and it takes a lifetime to even half sort of know yourself. We don’t live long enough and are denied access to the inner workings. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯How would I answer this question though?I’d focus on things I’m so far aware that only I can say, which I’ll get into in a minute.Firstly, let’s deal with the one word of issue here in the question: extraordinary.You’re already unique, you don’t need extraOrdinary doesn’t exist, extra or otherwise… but natural does and nature is a beastNature granted you everything you require to be extraordinary (if you insist on using that word) you just gotta be consistent and focus on development and accentuating any innate possibility within yourself, whilst retaining a willingness to sacrifice anything and everything (more and more) the higher you want to go because everything in life can and will be, could be, an obstacle to the next level. Depends what level you are able to play at but extraordinary is not a difficult achievement. Appearing superhuman however, absolutely is.So how would I define myself if I were asked to describe something uniquely natural about myself?I’d take charge of the question like I just did because it demonstrates how I deconstruct things and reframe them rather than take anything at face value. I do this incredibly well (though obviously I’m alluding to specifics I haven’t gotten into yet), it’s hard to say if it is a skill or innate, but it’s probably a mix of both anyway.The thing is I don’t see it as a bad thing that we have a driving force whipping us into a frenzy over finding some value to life, there are casualties in the war for awesomeness but there also some epic tales of interest.You are allowed to exit and refuse to play but of course many don’t realise it or aren’t told it or fail to confront the narrators of the effect, yet if you actually poke at the ‘everyone is special’ chant from enough angles you end up finding a satisfying purpose for yourself. You can find what is unique and turn up the dial. The message is delivered in the worst way, but the sentiment is fantastic.As for how I would define myself, I have a long history now of doing and saying things that catch the majority off guard, because they never thought of it and I make them see that it’s a huge hole in the foundation of assumption. I’ve made a point of exercising and developing my conceptual muscles and influencing the writing hand of the story of my life.It was actually pretty simple, I just identify what others are likely to do or have been shown to do then in the negative space and reflection of that image I isolate what they don’t do and question what they lose from that lack of awareness and assumption that the way it is done is clearly superior in every way.You’d be surprised how much that adds up to over time and how few things are superior in every way. My music method isn’t meant to be superior in every way (though I can argue it contains a few basic habits that I’m astounded aren’t default today), it is meant to be tailored to my personality and give me a taste for failure. It is a motivation engine more than anything else. It also proves that I can take some credit for my creativity as I do have a mental condition in which creative ideation (having ideas) is a symptom. So it helps to clarify things for what I can and can’t claim as my own.If I hallucinate a fully finished song I didn’t actually prove that I am able to write it did I? Some would take the easy credit, thanks for the freebie universe! I’m not one of them, if anything I am infuriated that all of my effort so far has not given me a fully finished song. My brain has punked me and made a lot of my other work seem amateur. Plus I can’t record it and release it anyway cos it’s a whole song with lyrics and whatnot. This is rare for it to be so visceral but it’s a reality I deal with often enough in some way or another, I mention it because it’s unique and not exactly normal but absolutely is natural. It sets the bar very high as my brain has proved to me what I’m capable of… but I haven’t proven it to the world, haven’t lived up to it quite yet. I will, but I’m not one for pretending otherwise until I make it very clear.I won’t go into unlimited detail but here’s a real world example by which my music habits are better (to me) than the alternatives: recording your ideas.We live in a time of abundance, Google offers free unlimited storage for images and videos (audio is easily turned into video should you wish to take advantage of that). It’s literally as simple as using your phone to film yourself playing and letting it upload to Google then forgetting about it. You don’t even have to unlock your phone to do it.Then why doesn’t anyone else see the value of that 2 second action from day one? Lack of deconstructive procedural thinking, is my guess.When I first started playing guitar I recorded everything I ever did from day one and I still do. Nobody else I have met or talked to has done this to the degree that I’ve done it or anywhere close. It only takes two seconds to hit record and grants me all kinds of magic powers down the line.If you ask me what I wrote on 11th January 2011 at about 4pm, well I can pull out my phone and answer the question. Then I can relearn it and play it for you, or finish that idea as it was likely abandoned or I’d have better musical knowledge now than I had then.That’s not bad but is it extraordinary, no, it’s just a basic good housekeeping mentality that most people lack. It’s understanding that in recording studios they just record it all and find the bits they need, taking that mentality home.I was at a gig yesterday for tomorrow’s potentially next big guitar player names. Not one of them even recorded themselves in even a simple manner. Yet if they could find Tommy Emmanuel playing at their age on a dinky stage they’d lap it up to appreciate him and they’d probably know about a gig that wasn’t filmed ‘but wish they’d been there to see it’. But they aren’t doing the kindness of documenting themselves in case someone else comes along after them and wishes to see more of them, study them. Will they become the next Tommy? They don’t know it, humility holds them back, or rather the notion it might be considered weird or the hassle of taking two minutes to set the phone up and hit record then letting the Google app upload it automatically… such a nuisance… it’s never been easier or cheaper or quicker so it’s unforgivable at this stage, the effort required is as close to zero as it ever has been and the quality of your average phone camera and microphone is sufficient for the task. You can go extra steps and I’m working on it but ultimately you’re on a small stage it doesn’t matter, it’s just endless potentials to have a recording and zero potentials not to. Do they need an A.I. drone that does it all for them to do this? I dunno but I find it infuriating.Perhaps it is considered arrogant to believe that maybe one day someone will want to watch how you play, or that after you’re dead a half written song might inspire some random human that adores you. I’ll live on the maybe, and they’ll have a lot to play with as I’ve given them a damn lot of history and context to myself. Perhaps it is bizarre to grant yourself the analytical ability to rewind time and watch yourself to identify your flaws so you can get better. I don’t know why people don’t do it but I do explain why it’s a real stupid thing to do. Then they can’t claim they were unaware or hadn’t thought about it, but they still don’t film themselves after this. Like, ever. The number of people who were like ‘omg I am gonna start doing this’ is next to zero across thousands of musicians I’ve talked to over a decade. There’s always some excuse or reason that isn’t really a reason because I counter it with a small action to take so they don’t have to change their existing behaviours but rather add one more thing on top of it. Take photos of your notebook and whoosh them away to the cloud. One click when you finish a page. Or use a smart pen, or smart paper, or Evernote on your phone, or stylus and iPad. There’s countless ways to work around the mortality of paper notes whilst not changing your interaction. It’s always an also not an instead of.I read that refusal to document as a lack of self belief, not buying into or building into their own legend, or they simply don’t care about their legacy and the prize of memory and awareness it offers. Or they are daft enough to think they will remember the good ones. It’s actually a lack of consideration, they care less and that’s ok for them, but not for me. It’s not my creativity or potential that’s being thrown away, honestly more power to them I just can’t comprehend it. There has never been a good enough reason presented to me, many haven’t even thought about it.¯\_(ツ)_/¯That’s standard to me. What I do next might be seen as special though and it’s something others simply cannot do. It’s about time I reap the rewards of my housekeeping. I’m about to film myself listening to all my old recordings and figuring them out, completing forgotten bits and organising my older notes as I go etc… but then I shall profile each idea as I go. Then I walk away with an articulated awareness of my musical instinct and very clear growth potentials as I’ll see my list of keys and scales (keeping it simple unlike other answers I’ve written on this) and I’ll know which ones I use most often and therefore what I should concentrate on next as a challenge against the muscle memory and habit that makes me mostly play in Bb Minor (or whatever comes out on top).Then I will release all my recordings publicly on a ‘raw channel’, explaining that they’re not gonna all be pretty but you’re welcome to comment and hope I work on that piece I forgot about. You’re also welcome to be mean but I’ll ignore that and assume you’re having a bad day if you feel the need to approach someone you don’t know like that.Because no fan ever got that access to the behind the scenes action of writing and getting better incrementally over time. You don’t need a narrative about my so-called talents because I am proving I started out awful and got a little less awful as time went on. Challenging the cultural narrative is a huge part of how I do what I do, I deconstruct romantic outdated notions. I offer full and absolute context so much as I can achieve it. I’ll probably ignore every comment ultimately as I only have so many hours in a day but you won’t be surprised by a song I wrote because I denied you the process I used to write it, you’ll be denied context because nobody can or will or would want to rummage through my old ideas enough to appreciate it.Tell me any artist or inventor who publicly released everything they had thought of for a decade before their great success even happened? It is all cherry picked and I’m aiming to shake that up. I can’t think of an example here that is equivalent but I know it likely exists, we protect our ideas from theft that will never occur (plus other reasons) and whilst I will likely keep one or two inventions to myself the rest is junk that I’ll never utilise cos I can’t live long enough or become great at everything I’d need to be to even approach some of these potential tasks.We think that if we don’t put the best foot forward we can’t trick people into thinking we are more than human enough for them to like what we do and be blown away but it is far more incredible to me to directly prove how you did it without question with overwhelming evidence. That is a different way of doing the same thing cos my obsessive self recording then releasing all data freely becomes extraordinary simply cos nobody else did it. I gain a lot from it at the end of the day, 2 seconds at a time.It might seem I’m not answering the question but I’m focusing on what I do that nobody ever does and giving a lot of context, that demonstrates how I’d answer this question, which answers the question.So, when you search for me a decade from now you’ll be likely to find a YouTube channel with over a million minutes of raw ideas, me jamming and writing improvised songs, slight variations and iterations of a song I’ve been writing for years, gig videos etc.Hopefully I’ll also release finished polished engineered highlights of that work, featured content haha but I don’t assume anything yet as I just enjoy creating and writing and dislike formality and obligation.In short I can and do and will generate evidence about my uniqueness and others will decide that eventually it adds up to extraordinary simply cos they don’t do the same for themselves. It is what they didn’t do, not what I did, that created the illusion I was anything more than they are.Grayson King( ར ₹, ཬ )