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I do the, you know, ‘what would my 80-year-old self tell myself right now?’ … like ‘you gave up on this passion just to focus on a career or focus on this other aspect.’ So then I just committed to myself that, OK, just to make my 80-year-old self happy, I’ll draw every day at a bare minimum.
— Colin Darke, the Rocket Loans GC who moonlights as an artist, commenting on how his law school journey made him rededicate himself to his creativity. During his first semester of law school, he only created four pieces of art, and it upset him. “I told myself you have to at least draw everyday so that you’re honoring this desire to draw and create that you have,” he said during an interview with Good Morning America. “Since then, I’ve been drawing every day.” Darke has almost 700,000 TikTok followers.
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