368 - Follow Your Bliss or Get Real? This New Take Gave Me a Thrilling Insight

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The biggest wins in my creative journey never fit squarely into the whole “just follow your passion and everything will work out” philosophy, but they were never pure pragmatism either. For this reason, even after nearly 8 years of making a podcast that tries to strike the balance between the magic of creativity and the realism of building a career, I still felt pulled between these two extremes, with no real resolve. But I recently stumbled upon a new perspective that synthesizes these two seemingly oppositional takes in such a powerful way that it instantly gave me clarity and action steps. If you’re consistently stuck in the analysis paralysis between following your head or going with your heart, this episode will give you tools to strike the balance in a surprising and useful way.

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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. I'm your host, Andy J.
0:26.0	Pizza. I don't know if there are any other philosophical quandaries that have split me up quite like the whole,
0:36.0	should you follow your dreams or should you just get real?
0:40.0	Should just be practical and pragmatic. Like to follow your bliss or dismiss it as this
0:46.0	fanciful distraction that gets in the way of actually making real progress with, you know,
0:52.0	real options in your life and just getting to work. Honestly, I have made a podcast on creativity and career,
0:59.0	which is kind of both of those categories for the past eight years. And for the longest time, I just didn't have a sense of closure.
1:06.0	You know, I would see these people that would give up on their passions and just accept whatever life handed to them.
1:13.0	And it would feel like such a waste. But at this same time, I would see people get really overly romantic and
1:21.0	idealistic and even really too will-will about following their dreams and end up wasting a ton of time,
1:28.0	crash and burn, have nothing to show for it. And it would equally just break my heart to see people in that zone.
1:35.0	And my own path and my own creative breakthroughs, they never seem to fit squarely within either of those boxes.
1:45.0	Kind of always have identified with both, but then completely uncomfortable with being both a dreamer and a doer.
1:52.0	And I've always kind of felt conflicted about it until now. I now have the definitive answer.
2:00.0	Just kidding, I don't have the definitive answer. But I do have a different way of dancing with the question, so to speak,
2:05.0	that has given me enough clarity to move past analysis paralysis. And I think explain some of the biggest creative breakthroughs in my past.
2:13.0	So if you get stuck in this zone, this episode is for you. Let's go.
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2:45.0	Create an incredible design portfolio and master how to discuss and sell your work.
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