524 - How to Know Whether to Push On or Give Up

Creative Pep Talk

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- Does this sound familiar? You find a new thing. You’re certain this is THE thing. It all makes sense! You get started with tons of energy… but then you hit a wall. It all feels wrong. You bail. Find a new thing and the loop starts all over. If you can relate. This episode is for you!!! Stick until the end for a checklist that can help you decide whether to stick to the path or give up the thing you’re currently working on! SHOW NOTES: Eustress the Good Stresshttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/be-the-sun-not-the-salt/202408/eustress-the-good-stress Eustress vs Distresshttps://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/eustress-vs-distress Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyihttps://www.aaspa.org/products/flow-the-psychology-of-optimal-experience Producer / Editor: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK 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 off sometimes you just need
0:12.5	a creative pepter how do you know if you should push on or give up?
0:27.6	We start every episode talking about the creative journey, but if I'm honest, it doesn't
0:33.1	always feel like a journey.
0:34.7	It often feels like a series of setbacks and dead ends and obstacles and just
0:43.9	difficulty, right? Like it can just be exhausting and it's not just one stage of the journey. It can happen
0:52.0	before it starts. You're stuck in pitch land trying to break in,
0:55.5	trying to get someone to listen to you, listen to your demo, read your treatment, whatever it is.
1:01.0	Like that can feel incredibly difficult and just so wrong pitching yourself, selling yourself
1:07.2	in that way. It can happen in the middle of a project where you are way into this
1:11.6	thing that you thought was it. You sold the thing. You're making it. You're loving it until you're
1:17.2	hating it. And you're like, this is, this cannot be right. What did I do? How did I end up here?
1:22.6	How did I think this was the way to go? It can happen at the end where you're trying, you've already made it.
1:29.2	It's in the, it's coming out and now you're marketing it, selling it, telling people about it.
1:33.6	But the more you talk about it, the more you're like, is this terrible? I don't like, what am I doing?
1:39.6	It can feel so wrong sometimes.
1:45.0	And I know because I once worked on a project for years and years and just kept trying
1:53.5	it, pitched it, made more stuff, worked so hard on it, felt like this, for the longest
1:58.7	time, they're like, this is it.
2:00.1	And then got so frustrated
2:01.9	that i just gave up and just posted it on twitter and was like that that's it but that also became
2:09.0	my best-selling book later on and so i know that the journey is full of these stops starts, feel so right, feel so wrong.
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