304 - The Hard (But Good) Truth About the Creative's Journey
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
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ποΈ 26 April 2022
β±οΈ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Louise from Team Forleo and we're continuing our dip back into the vault to talk about |
| 0:08.4 | a super juicy topic, the grindy, often difficult pieces of being a creative. |
| 0:14.5 | You'll hear Marie, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Stephen Pressfield share some hard-won truths |
| 0:19.1 | that will change the way you think about your creative journey. |
| 0:29.0 | So I remember reading this particular part of Big Magic out loud and I cheered and I laughed |
| 0:35.2 | and I did my Jersey Fist Pump right all the way. |
| 0:38.3 | Jersey in the house doubled every day. |
| 0:40.3 | Seriously. |
| 0:41.3 | And so when I read shit sandwiches and day jobs, okay, so I need to say this, I believe |
| 0:48.0 | that those two, first of all, I think the book is required reading for every human. |
| 0:52.4 | But those two in particular, you're so welcome, is they're so vital. |
| 0:58.9 | For anyone trying to do anything, but especially if they have entrepreneurial aspirations, |
| 1:03.9 | you know, when I want to be a writer, they want to be a dancer, anything. |
| 1:07.1 | So it started business. |
| 1:08.1 | Yes, so if we could start with the fact, and I loved this because this is my mentality |
| 1:13.9 | and I was like, she gave words to what I love it, that finding your true purpose is really |
| 1:19.1 | about deciding which flavor of shit sandwich you're really in for. |
| 1:25.3 | Well, this is, I wish it were my idea. |
| 1:28.0 | It's not my idea. |
| 1:29.0 | I borrowed it, but I will lay it out here anyway. |
| 1:31.2 | The idea is that every pursuit, no matter how glamorous it may seem, no matter how exciting |
| 1:36.8 | you are, it feels to you, no matter how much you feel like you were born to do it, comes |
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