On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift up.

Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.

Hey, you're listening to the Creative Pep Talk podcast.

I am your host, Andy J.

Hey, Scott.

The day on the show, I want to talk about a subject that I am just endlessly fascinated by.

And it's this question of why do we love the art that we love?

As an artist, that's a question you probably are wrestling with pretty frequently

because you want to make stuff that you would love that's a gift to your audience.

And social psychologists tell us that it's something about putting in the 10,000 hours.

It's the skill acquisition that makes the artist.

And we did part one of this show a couple weeks ago and it was all about skill acquisition.

I am down for learning new things as an artist, but I don't think I'm not convinced

that that is the secret sauce because some of my all-time favorite songs were written by people like Connor Obersd

who only couldn't possibly have put in 10,000 hours when he was writing these songs as a teenager.

And you're like, there's something else going on here.

And every so often, we see one of these artists have this massive breakthrough

and the entire industry around them just becomes like a fun house of mirrored images

that are just kind of distorted versions of what they were doing.

You know, when Wes Anderson was really big in the early 2000s,

everything started feeling like Wes Anderson.

And Bob Dylan was the same and Michael Jackson had a million imitators and changed the industry.

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