409: How to Make Living Itself An Art, Part Deux (Who is TSLL Written For?)
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
To look up the definition of art through an academic lens is to discover there is no one agreed upon definition of art, and to my eye that is what makes it all the more beautiful to cultivate in the way we live each of our lives if we are to heed the above quote's encouragement of action.
Earlier this week, a new series began here on TSLL that will explore and share Who TSLL is Written For? And What Lies at the Heart of Living Simply Luxuriously.
Part Une: We discussed what it means to be a 'Thinking Person' in the context of living simply luxuriously and how thinking works as a unit with being compassionate, something we will talk about in-depth in episode #410. The foundational premise is yep, we all have thoughts, that is part of being human, but it is in choosing to learn how to use our thoughts that will determine the quality of our life.
At the core of living a life that brings fulfillment, peace, and allows us to experience contentment throughout every day of our life is an original recipe for living, and for the purposes of looking at art as a way of living, that is one value of 'art' that is non-negotiable. Each of our lives will be unique, comprised of chosen details coupled with experiential details that we as the artist have consciously woven together to create a life that is art.
If we copy the lifestyle of someone else, if we mimic what 'fall in line' means when it comes to making choices because others have made them before us, we are a print, and something easily replicated, void of depth, created without courage or daring.
So, let's get into this episode.
Find the Show Notes at The Simply Luxurious Life blog - https://thesimplyluxuriouslife.com/podcast409
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple sophisticate, where in 2014, this podcast premiered, and now in its 12th season, |
| 0:10.0 | the show continues to focus on the same principles it was founded upon, the art of living a life of quality over quantity. |
| 0:18.0 | Topics range from creating an everyday life you love living, strengthening mindfulness |
| 0:22.9 | practices, building a capsule wardrobe, preparing seasonally delicious meals, traveling and exploring |
| 0:29.2 | France and Britain, and living life to the fullest as you courageously honor your true self, |
| 0:34.8 | because living well really is quite simple once we know the skills of |
| 0:39.3 | cultivating contentment. I'm your host, Shannon Ables, and whether you're listening while |
| 0:44.7 | you're on your commute, exercising, working in the garden or art studio, in route or returning from |
| 0:50.4 | that dream destination, or sitting down and savoring a hot cuppa or a cafe au lae. Thank you for |
| 0:57.1 | tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate podcast and welcome to our new season. |
| 1:05.4 | This is the beginning of season 12. As many longtime listeners know, we kick off a new year in September and a season |
| 1:13.5 | last the entire year. We start in September, two episodes every month, take July off, |
| 1:20.1 | and then we have two more in August and take a few weeks off there at the end of August. And now |
| 1:25.2 | we are back. We are back and we are ready |
| 1:27.8 | for a great season. And I am so looking forward to kicking off season 12, especially because we're |
| 1:34.8 | coinciding with the blog for the first month. So in September, and I'll explain a little bit more |
| 1:40.4 | as we get into this episode. But as you heard there in the introduction, |
| 1:46.5 | while I didn't change too much in the introduction, but you can go back and have a listen, |
| 1:50.8 | if you'd like, compare it to last years. We're really making sure we remember to savor. |
| 1:58.0 | Whatever it is we're doing, whatever it is, however we're living our life, whatever it is |
| 2:02.6 | that we love to do, wherever our life is, we are remembering to savor. And this is not by |
| 2:10.5 | accident. It'll all become very, very clear later this month, and especially next year with the forthcoming fourth book from The Simply |
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