357 - 3 Psychological Principles That Will Make Your Art More Effective

Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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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 Heptalk podcast. I'm your host, Andy J.
0:26.0	Pizza. Have you ever had the experience where you make something in like seven seconds
0:34.0	and it gets 70 times the reaction than something you put 70 hours in?
0:40.0	Like something you made super quick with no effort hits your audience way harder
0:46.0	than something you just put your heart and soul and time and effort and life into.
0:51.0	Ever does. It's extremely frustrating when that happens.
0:57.0	You know, there's this thing that happens with art where you hit a wall of diminishing returns
1:03.0	where the extra effort doesn't correlate with extra effect on your audience.
1:10.0	And so you can try and try and try, but it's not actually making it better.
1:16.0	And that can be a very disheartening space. And that's where what we're going to talk about today comes in.
1:23.0	We are in the middle of a creative zero to hero series. It's just a dumb way of talking about.
1:29.0	How do you go from having never picked up the guitar or the paintbrush all the way to writing the best song you're capable of writing?
1:37.0	What are the key touch points?
1:40.0	An illustrator, friend of mine, Zach Gorman said it on Twitter like,
1:45.0	what were the radioactive spider bite moments that transformed you?
1:50.0	I looked back throughout my creative practice and we're trying to identify what were the key shifts
1:56.0	and what were the touch points in that journey that really mattered.
2:00.0	And I also tried to pick out ones that I saw pattern in the creative heroes that I wanted to emulate
2:06.0	in terms of their journey and practice. And so I came up with six things.
2:11.0	It's not an exhaustive list. I'm sure this order isn't perfect, but we've been working through them.
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