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Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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__________ Listen and Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and more: https://link.chtbl.com/creativepeptalk TRANSCRIPT __________ SHOW NOTES Creative Zero-To-Hero Series 1. Skill 2. Story 3. Style 4. Setting 5. Psychology 6. Say Something Hanif Abdurraqib’s “A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance” Book http://www.abdurraqib.com/book Rian Johnson on Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/originality-imitation-rian-johnson-filmmaker Sarah Millican on Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/63-sarah-millican-put-the-email-address-in-last Phil Hanson’s “Embrace the Shake” TED Talk https://ed.ted.com/lessons/embrace-the-shake-phil-hansen Ashley C. Ford’s “Creative Personal Writing Write the Real You” Skillshare Class https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Creative-Personal-Writing-Write-the-Real-You MAID on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/search?q=maid Brian McDonald’s “Invisible Ink” Book and “You Are a Storyteller” Podcast https://writeinvisibleink.com/ Disney + Pixar’s “Soul” Movie https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/soul Pixar 'Soul' Creators Pete Docter & Kemp Powers on NPR’s Fresh Air Podcast https://www.npr.org/pixar-soul-creators-pete-docter-kemp-powers __________ SPONSORS STORYBLOCKS Video is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalk 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 talk.
0:22.0	Hey, you're listening to the Creative Pep Talk podcast.
0:26.0	I am your host, Andy J.
0:30.0	Hey, Scott.
0:33.0	The day on the show, I want to talk about a subject that I am just endlessly fascinated by.
0:41.0	And it's this question of why do we love the art that we love?
0:47.0	As an artist, that's a question you probably are wrestling with pretty frequently
0:51.0	because you want to make stuff that you would love that's a gift to your audience.
0:55.0	And social psychologists tell us that it's something about putting in the 10,000 hours.
1:02.0	It's the skill acquisition that makes the artist.
1:06.0	And we did part one of this show a couple weeks ago and it was all about skill acquisition.
1:12.0	I am down for learning new things as an artist, but I don't think I'm not convinced
1:19.0	that that is the secret sauce because some of my all-time favorite songs were written by people like Connor Obersd
1:27.0	who only couldn't possibly have put in 10,000 hours when he was writing these songs as a teenager.
1:34.0	And you're like, there's something else going on here.
1:38.0	And every so often, we see one of these artists have this massive breakthrough
1:43.0	and the entire industry around them just becomes like a fun house of mirrored images
1:50.0	that are just kind of distorted versions of what they were doing.
1:54.0	You know, when Wes Anderson was really big in the early 2000s,
1:57.0	everything started feeling like Wes Anderson.
1:59.0	And Bob Dylan was the same and Michael Jackson had a million imitators and changed the industry.
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