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a star man waiting in the sky, and his name is David Bowie. Born in Brixton on 8 January 1947 \u2013 he would have been 72 today \u2013 this irreplaceable figure in British rock made an everlasting mark on music, fashion, culture, and beyond by swapping and shifting personas, taking us to the outer limits of our imaginations in the process. Embodying a diverse cast of characters from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke, Aladdin Sane to The Goblin King, Bowie remains an icon for all of us who have dreamed of something more than the humdrum reality of our day-to-day lives \u2014 he ponders the existence of life on Mars, encouraging us to dance, to be rebels, to be heroes. It seems only right then to chart what we can learn from this magnificent shapeshifter on what would have been his birthday. Here are ten lessons to learn from the <em>man who fell to earth<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>1. It\u2019s ok not to have a plan<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":73186,"id":73186,"title":"tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500","filename":"tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","filesize":510290,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/david-bowie-lessons\/tumblr_p2wrvasbbv1tt42qzo1_500\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"tumblr_p2wrvasbbv1tt42qzo1_500","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73176,"date":"2019-01-08 15:41:37","modified":"2019-01-08 15:41:37","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":500,"height":320,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":82,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","medium-width":500,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","medium_large-width":500,"medium_large-height":320,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","large-width":500,"large-height":320,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","1536x1536-width":500,"1536x1536-height":320,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","2048x2048-width":500,"2048x2048-height":320,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_p2wrvasbBV1tt42qzo1_500.gif","wpvr_mobile-width":500,"wpvr_mobile-height":320}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>At his fiftieth birthday concert in New York\u2019s Maddison Square Gardens, with guests including Pixies front man Frank Black, The Cure\u2019s Robert Smith and Lou Reed, Bowie delivered one of his most insightful and memorable quotes of all time: \u201cI don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going from here, but I promise it won\u2019t be boring\u201d. It&#8217;s a statement that has since become shorthand for the values espoused by Bowie in this lifetime, reassuring anyone who hasn&#8217;t taken a clear path whatever age they may be.\u00a0\u00a0After all, if THE David Bowie didn\u2019t have a life plan sorted by the time he turned fifty, how are we mere mortals meant to?<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>2. Don\u2019t take yourself too seriously<\/h2>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/InIxKCa3H9g\" width=\"1500\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whilst Bowie could&#8217;ve let fame go to his head and make him \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J-_30HA7rec\">too cool to fool<\/a>\u201d, he instead maintained a humble sense of humour throughout his career. Just take his tongue-in-cheek cameo as the \u201cwalk-off judge\u201d in <em>Zoolander<\/em> (2001) as a prime example, or his turn as the glam-rock leader of Atlantis in SpongeBob\u2019s Atlantis SquarePantis in 2007. That\u2019s definitely not the sign of an artist taking themselves too seriously.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>3. When in doubt move to Berlin<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGsRZxKo6cP\/","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>We all know now that the German capital is a pretty amazing place to live, but Bowie proved that it\u2019s also one of the best places to be in order to enhance your creative productivity. Moving to the West Berlin district of Sch\u00f6neberg in 1976, and living in a Hauptstra\u00dfe flat with Iggy Pop, Bowie proceeded to have a burst of artistic energy experimenting with electronic, krautrock, ambient and world music in collaboration with producer Tony Visconti\u00a0and musician\u00a0Brian Eno. The result was a 3-part series of albums called The Berlin Triptych<em> \u2014<\/em>\u00a0the second instalment of which is one of his most famous albums,\u00a0<em>Heroes,\u00a0<\/em>which even includes a track named after the now uber-trendy Berlin neighbourhood, Neuk\u00f6ln<em>. <\/em>Thanks to\u00a0Bowie, Berlin remains an artist&#8217;s getaway today.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>4. Sexuality isn\u2019t straightforward<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":73187,"id":73187,"title":"tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400","filename":"tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","filesize":1441289,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/david-bowie-lessons\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73176,"date":"2019-01-08 15:44:35","modified":"2019-01-08 15:44:35","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":400,"height":300,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","medium-width":400,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","medium_large-width":400,"medium_large-height":300,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","large-width":400,"large-height":300,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","1536x1536-width":400,"1536x1536-height":300,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","2048x2048-width":400,"2048x2048-height":300,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","trp-custom-language-flag-width":16,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_oq3spuc39q1v8iojfo1_400.gif","wpvr_mobile-width":400,"wpvr_mobile-height":300}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>Coinciding with the release of his fifth studio album,\u00a0<em>Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars <\/em>in 1972, Bowie came out as bisexual to Melody Maker magazine. And although he flamboyantly embraced queer culture, he later told Rolling Stone that he had always been \u201ca closet heterosexual\u201d and that \u201ccoming out was the biggest mistake [he] made&#8221;. But we don\u2019t think it was a mistake, as by retracting his original declaration, Bowie showed us that when it comes to your orientation it\u2019s OK to explore your options and to change your mind as often as you like.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>5. Fame isn\u2019t everything<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BNSD0hilCV7\/","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>Whilst many of us may dream of being a rich and famous rockstar, Bowie tells us that it\u2019s not all it\u2019s cracked up to be. The most obvious example of this is his 1975 track <em>Fame, <\/em>which directly warns us that \u201cfame makes a man take things over\u2026 makes him loose, hard to swallow.\u201d For Bowie, making and creating and reinventing always came ahead of the glittering successes of stardom.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>6. Dancing is the answer to everything<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":73193,"id":73193,"title":"tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500","filename":"tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","filesize":1042807,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/david-bowie-lessons\/tumblr_omx0i9opqq1uztscio1_500\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"tumblr_omx0i9opqq1uztscio1_500","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73176,"date":"2019-01-08 15:52:24","modified":"2019-01-08 15:52:24","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":500,"height":287,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":73,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","medium-width":500,"medium-height":287,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","medium_large-width":500,"medium_large-height":287,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","large-width":500,"large-height":287,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","1536x1536-width":500,"1536x1536-height":287,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","2048x2048-width":500,"2048x2048-height":287,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_omx0i9oPqq1uztscio1_500.gif","wpvr_mobile-width":500,"wpvr_mobile-height":287}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>If you\u2019re feeling down all you\u2019ve got to do is <em>\u201c<\/em>put on your red shoes and dance the blues&#8221;.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>7. The grownups don\u2019t have all the answers<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BTLDLB_AoOk\/","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>Just as it was in the &#8217;70s, the world today is going through a lot of &#8220;ch-ch-ch-changes&#8221;, not least for young people and burned-out millennials. What with the social upheaval of Brexit going against many young people&#8217;s wishes, and ever rising university fees in Bowie\u2019s native Britain, his lyric, \u201cAnd these children that you spit on, as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations, they&#8217;re quite aware of what they&#8217;re goin&#8217; through\u201d feels just as relevant today as it did when it was first heard on the radio waves in 1971. And we\u2019re pretty sure with the erratic nature of contemporary politics, in a few years his lyric, &#8220;Where\u2019s your, shame?\/ You\u2019ve left us up to our necks in it\u201d will be pretty applicable too.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>8. 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Don\u2019t conform to fashion<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BsXRCGjBUGu\/","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>Whilst Bowie may now be considered a fashion trailblazer, he got there by wearing whatever he wanted, through kaleidoscopic experimentation, ditching trends and most notably, transcending the boundaries of gendered clothing.\u00a0Considering that non-binary fashion is a pretty hot topic right now \u2014 with brands such as Art School gaining attention for their gender nonconforming collection at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/london-mens-aw19\/\">London Fashion Week Men\u2019s<\/a>, it just goes to show that Bowie was pretty ahead of his time when he embraced an androgynous aesthetic.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<h2>10. 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Starting off as a lycra-clad, lightning-bolt-stamped alien creature and finishing as a doomed blind prophet, with stints as a sharp dressed Duke and a Goblin King in-between, Bowie was a master chameleon who constantly metamorphosed into different alter-egos. But as well as altering his appearance, he also experimented with a wide range of musical styles, including glam rock, blues, soul, funk, pop, psychedelia, music hall, folk, post modernism, minimalism, ambient, krautrock, jungle\u2026 we could go on. 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