349 - Creative Pep Talk's 10 Rules of A Thriving Creative Practice

Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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__________ Listen and Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and more: https://link.chtbl.com/creativepeptalk TRANSCRIPT __________ SHOW NOTES Bob Dylan - Magical Youth Clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wAZ02JUtM Original Creative Pep Talk on Booby Traps https://www.creativepeptalk.com/episodes/2018/10/9/202-for-when-you-feel-like-giving-up Right Side Out Pizza Story https://www.instagram.com/p/CAX66GsgYfX/ Lynda Barry https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/lynda-barry/ Dieter Rams Good Design Rules https://designmuseum.org/discover-design/all-stories/what-is-good-design-a-quick-look-at-dieter-rams-ten-principles Sister Corita Kent Art Class Rules https://www.creativelivesinprogress.com/article/corita-kent Everything is a Remix Kirby Ferguson https://www.everythingisaremix.info/ George Carlin Cardboard Cut Out Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewUVZZMXT8 Seth Godin More Good Ideas by Having More Bad Ideas https://seths.blog/2018/06/the-two-simple-secrets-to-good-ideas/#:~:text=Secret%20%231%20is%20the%20biggest,easier%20than%20the%20opposite%20approach. James Clear Atomic Habits https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Creative-Habit/Twyla-Tharp/9780743235273 1000 True Fans Kevin Kelly https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ Austin Kleon Seasons https://austinkleon.com/2016/08/11/seasons/ Todd Henry Seasons https://accidentalcreative.com/podcasts/ac/ac-podcast-seasons/ Pantsers vs Plotter https://whenyouwrite.com/plotter-vs-pantser/#:~:text=A%20plotter%20is%20someone%20who,their%20pots%20on%20the%20stove __________ SPONSORS SHILLINGTON Study graphic design with Shillington for 3 months full-time or 9 months part-time. With Shillington’s graphic design course, you’ll graduate with a solid understanding of creative problem solving, design theory and software. Create an incredible design portfolio and master how to discuss and sell your work—essential skills for any creative career. LEARN MORE: https://shillo.design/pep SKILLSHARE There’s nothing better than getting better. Accomplishing growth is extremely satisfying, and online classes from Skillshare make it possible. Learn about illustration, design, photography, productivity, and marketing. With Skillshare’s short classes, you can move your creative journey forward without putting life on hold. So explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/CreativePep where our listeners get a free trial of Premium Membership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift up.
0:11.0	Sometimes you just need a creative pep song.
0:22.0	Hey, you're listening to the Creative Pep Talk podcast.
0:26.0	I'm your host, Andy J. Pizza. This episode, I want to talk to you about the feeling of the universal hamster wheel of death.
0:38.0	Does anybody just feel like we're just really living the same thing over and over and over again?
0:45.0	Look, on a global scale, I'm not sure I can really speak to that or help you, but on the creative journey scale,
0:53.0	if you feel like you are kind of in this perpetual state of repeating the same thing over and over,
1:00.0	you're making tons of effort every year.
1:02.0	Do you not really seeing any significant progress?
1:06.0	That was one of the most discouraging things in the world.
1:10.0	I hate when you get stuck in a kind of loop.
1:14.0	It really kills my enthusiasm when I feel like all of my efforts aren't really changing anything.
1:23.0	I've tried a different strategy of 18 times and I'm still not gaining any traction on Instagram or TikTok,
1:31.0	or I've changed what I've done a hundred times. I've done 10 different book proposals.
1:35.0	It's not working no matter what I'm doing, it's not working.
1:39.0	It feels like you're just on this hamster wheel where all the effort you're making is completely meaningless.
1:47.0	I've actually come to feel like it's not a hamster wheel, we're just going round and round and round again.
1:54.0	It's more like one of those claw games that pick up the candy, not the stuffed animal one, but the candy one.
2:03.0	The kind where you get to keep doing it until you've won a prize.
2:10.0	You ever have one of those? I can't let you keep playing until you've actually picked something up.
2:15.0	That's what it feels like. It's like a hamster wheel where the prize is going around over and over and over.
2:20.0	You get to stay on there until you actually grab it.
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