Creating the Addiction of Art - Nicholas Wilton - Ep 154

Art2Life

Nicholas Wilton

Self-improvement, Education, Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

https://Art2Life.com - Have you ever wondered why some creative practices thrive while others falter?

The answer might lie in understanding our six essential human needs: certainty, uncertainty, significance, love and connection, growth, and contribution, how they intertwine with our art-making, and how understanding them can lead to a more fulfilling and sustainable art practice.

Art is more than just a reflection of our innermost feelings; it's a mirror of our personal evolution. But when you’re clinging to the same artistic methods, it leads to stagnation, which is why it’s so crucial to evolve and embrace new approaches.

That's where my innovative Bloom Practice comes into play—because it prioritizes feelings over outcomes, encouraging authenticity and profound personal development in your art.

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LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN…

[5:13] The six human needs that form the reason we take the actions we do

[8:24] The fundamental human need for love and connection drives our creativity

[9:40] How we can build connections with other artists—on and offline

[14:05] Art fulfills human needs and can become an addictive, sustainable practice

[16:59] Retreats normalize artists’ challenges and emphasize shared experiences

[21:40] Connect with your emotions to create authentic, embodied art

[25:39] Use art to become more yourself and evolve as an individual

[26:52] Focus on enjoying the process, not just the end product

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

The 6 Human Needs by Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/blog/why-you-are-the-way-you-are

Join the Studio Notification Waitlist: https://pages.art2life.com/studio/2024-studio-notification-list/

Bloom: https://www.art2life.com/bloom-demo/

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0:00.0	When we're thinking of making art and we're focused on the outcome, which many of us are,
0:05.9	it drives you nuts. That doesn't work. There is no certainty so it becomes hard to make art.
0:12.3	And when we focus on the outcome, we white knuckle it, the outcome usually isn't very good.
0:18.8	And we don't like it. We don't like what we make. It's the worst
0:22.2	feeling. Then that gives us the feeling that we're not progressing. There is no growth. I just made
0:28.6	another ugly painting. I've made 10 of these in the last two weeks. There's no growth. So that shuts
0:34.4	us down. We don't feel significant because it's mediocre at best.
0:40.4	We scroll the internet, we look on Instagram and everyone's work looks better than ours.
0:46.3	And who are we?
0:47.4	Not only do not feel significant, but we feel like an imposter.
0:51.2	I know these ideas because I talk about them with people. These are what
0:56.6	we're working on at many of the retreats in CBP and in the comments. This is the subject of what
1:02.9	we're talking about, the challenges artists face. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Arts of Life podcast.
1:10.8	I'm in Tulum, Mexico, having just completed
1:14.6	several destination workshops. The most recent was in Flydell Carmen. Just an amazing experience
1:22.1	for a week. One of the things that comes up, and we talk a a lot about is making a practice and how to get that going,
1:32.5	how to really get it going.
1:35.0	And if I could figure this out, I know things that work and I know ways to help people do this,
1:42.3	but it's kind of diving deeper into this. Like what makes it possible
1:46.8	for some people to create an ongoing practice and for many others to just, it's so intermittent.
1:55.4	And so this has led me into some of Tony Robbins' work around the six human needs because I kept thinking,
2:02.3	what is it that our art is giving us and where is it breaking down? Because art can be like
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