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LET IT OUT

272 | Andrew Bird on Discipline, Slow-Growth, Creation, and more

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

Fashion & Beauty, Mental Health, Love, Arts, Self-help, Wellness, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Well Being, True Crime, Self-care, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Health

4.9826 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Andrew Bird talks about the slow growth he had as a musician, his discipline & patience in building his career, & how letting go, slowing down, & taking a break was really what actually helped him move forward. He started playing classical violin at four. This training required strict adherence to rules, which he ultimately broke free from to create his own style.

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I feel like the place for your more eccentric impulses should be the thing you're putting out there.

0:09.0

I'm...

0:10.0

...woolet out. Let it out.

0:34.9

Hi, welcome back. You're listening to Let It Out with me, Katie Dillbout. This week's episode is with

0:41.9

songwriter, whistler, musician that I've loved forever, Andrew Bird, and it was recorded live at

0:48.5

the Emerge Music Festival in the Little Space Lounge. It's part of that series of interviews that I've been putting out over these last

0:55.7

couple months.

0:56.6

And I was really excited to have him on the podcast.

0:59.3

I slightly regret that I didn't ask him to whistle with me,

1:03.1

but we did get to talk about creativity, songwriting,

1:06.4

being gentler with yourself, slow growth, how we met his wife,

1:10.7

parenting, self-discipline,

1:12.9

the intersection of art and activism, his relationship to social media and his phone.

1:18.0

It's a really good episode. I just listened back to it and I liked it a lot.

1:22.8

So I'll get to that because I'm recording this in Paris and there's some loud music playing outside

1:30.0

my window that I don't know if you can hear or not. So enjoy this episode and I'll talk to you at the end for

1:35.2

likes and learns and the emoji. Today's episode is brought to in part by BetterHelp, which is a company that I love so much.

1:46.6

I love therapy.

1:47.5

It's been such a useful tool in my life.

1:50.3

And what BetterHelp does is helps make therapy accessible and easy for people while they're traveling, while they're living internationally.

2:00.5

Finding a therapist can be really

2:01.8

challenging and BetterHelp helps to bring you to a licensed, vetted therapist very, very easily. It's not a

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