EP 14

Your host // Tim Bishop

Our guest // Alexander Nicolls 

About 

Alexander grew up in Canberra and was thought to have common learning disabilities, it was only later did professionals realise it was his a problem with his eyes. Alex had to play some serious catch up with the basics. Entering year 7 still unable to read and write, he mentioned "I had become accustomed to the feeling of failing everything I tried" He went on to get accepted into Conservatorium high school, The Juilliard School in NewYork as a cellist and has traveled the world as a free lance musician. Alex currently lives in Berlin and some beautiful aspects of his motives are found in heroic stories of cheerful optimism.

This Episode

• Overcoming challenge
• How Alexander found music 
• Strategies for pushing through failure
• How work ethic played a crucial part in Alexander's journey
• Hero themes and how Alexander pulls inspiration from them