101 - How to Prove Your Creative Genius

Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Caught / turn yourself Basquiat secret genius As a creative progressional you are incompetent until proven genius. Once your lucky, twice your good? Once your lucky, twice your lucky, three times meh. Seth Godin / Pick Yourself Stack the deck 1. Commit the Crime - Make the Work Walk the walk Good will hunting Non creatives Ben Affleck Examples value proof - Editorial sell magazines - Logo designer / start pro company / field notes - Kids book author / kickstart - Soundtrack short film - CPT strategic content 2. Evidence - Metrics Mike birbiglia - rotten tomatoes Qualitative Not lottery, paycheck - social media, pick one / two max Sales / listens 3. Witnesses - Relationships Quantitative - Ira Glass Nothing's changed. SpongeBob. Vouch. Build relationships : ppl still want to know you Pitchfork Be you - hang out 4. Testify - Start reaching out. Light the fuse. Avoid bottle neck / Pixar Shane snow John lennon Provide value where it's needed first Verdict hide subjectivity. Take the test Easy to heckle / critique Open mic vs audition Steve Martin quote. www.patreon.com/creativepeptalk Joey Ellis http://www.joeyellis.com/#/new-gallery-3/ Luke Flowers http://www.lukeflowerscreative.com/ Seth Worley http://www.sethworley.com/ Thanks to Yoni Wolf and his band WHY? for our theme music. Thanks to my man Nate Utesch and his band Metavari for all the other tunes! www.soundcloud.com/metavari Jayro Design jayrodesign.com/ Jayro Music www.soundcloud.com/jayrodesign Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody you're listening to the creative pep talk
0:19.2	podcast this show is about commercial art making making a good living, and making great art.
0:25.0	I'm your host Andy J. Pizza.
0:27.5	Our syndicate is Illustration Age.
0:29.7	You can find this show at Illustration Age.
0:32.0	Com slash Creative Pep Talk talk let's jump in.
0:35.0	This episode of the podcast is sponsored by Astropad.
0:45.6	Astropad is an app that turns your iPad into a professional graphics tablet for your Mac.
0:51.6	It works with any Mac app so you can use creative tools like
0:54.4	Photoshop and illustrator right on your iPad. Check out Astropad.com my gosh. I'm so freaking
1:17.0	I'm so freaking thrilled to be back. I took three weeks off of the creative pep talk and it just feels like a big part of me has just been missing. I've missed you guys so much. I've missed
1:27.0	downloading my thoughts on being a commercial artist and I'm ready to get back at it.
1:34.8	So this episode is part of a three part series.
1:38.3	It's part three.
1:40.3	I took my creative mornings talk from Louisville that I did a few months ago and I took each
1:47.6	point and I expanded it into a full episode because I had so much more to say about each point. I only got to kind of briefly
1:56.4	talk about it in the talk and I wanted to talk more actionable steps about what I was actually trying to say.
2:04.0	And so this is the third part.
2:06.0	We had the first part, which was about finding your creative gold.
2:12.0	We had the second part which was about becoming a
2:15.6	creative master and this is the third part which is about it's essentially
2:22.1	about selling it's about, it's essentially about selling.
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