A Crazy Story About Creative Karma and Work That Matters
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2015
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
It was a moment that nearly brought me to tears...
As an entrepreneur, a writer, a creator, a big part of why I do what I do is simply the hardwired need to create. I do the thing I "can't not do."
The process of creation breathes me.
Being able to write, to build, to produce, these things all light me up. But there's another part of the equation. It's the part about how the things you create land in the world. How other people experience them.
It's part about whether they matter not only to you, but to those who might, in some small way, engage with what you make. To those who might just be left changed, or at least moved in a meaningful way.
Often times, you never get to see this part.
But, every once in a while, you stumble onto them. This week's Good Life Project Riff is about one of those moments. It happened through pure serendipity. It involved a guy named Steve and a venture he called Exit Plan B. The image in this post created by him.
Neither of us knew what was really happening or how we'd truly affected each other until we'd been working together for months.
Until the moment everything came full circle. And it left us both jaw-dropped.
Enjoy the story!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by our very fun gathering, Camp GLP, where, oh, let's |
| 0:10.3 | say some 350 or so, amazingly cool people. |
| 0:14.9 | Makers, entrepreneurs, just all around super friendly, awesome people. |
| 0:19.0 | You're going to come and hang out as we take over a sleep away camp and have everything |
| 0:23.7 | from workshops on making entrepreneurship, careers, to art and creating and all the awesome |
| 0:30.2 | stuff that goes along with summer camp too. |
| 0:32.6 | It's an amazing place to be, introvert friendly, extrovert friendly, and be avert friendly |
| 0:37.2 | while I'll be hanging out and a whole crew of incredible people. |
| 0:40.6 | And if you're listening to this before the end of June 2015, be sure to go and grab your |
| 0:46.6 | spot ASAP because at the end of this month, we jump up to the final price and you will |
| 0:52.0 | lose the $100 discount that is going to be hanging out until the end of this month. |
| 0:57.1 | So, go grab your spot. |
| 0:58.3 | You can check it out at goodlifeproject.com slash camp. |
| 1:02.7 | Hope to see you there. |
| 1:03.7 | Hey there, it's Jonathan here with this week's Good Life Project RIF. |
| 1:10.9 | The name of this RIF is Full Circle. |
| 1:14.4 | So this went down in Oakland, California in 2012. |
| 1:17.1 | I was walking along the pier and we stumbled upon a booth, literally bursting with |
| 1:21.9 | photos of letters and rings and words. |
| 1:23.9 | And I've got to know the story behind them. |
| 1:25.9 | So I asked for the provider and his name is Steve. |
| 1:29.5 | He spent the better part of his adult life as a senior executive in the Bay Area Tech |
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