Creating Your Immortal Beautiful Work with Jennifer Boykin
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, Life After Tampons creator Jennifer Boykin discusses what it takes to create your immortal beautiful work, getting comfortable with something unplanned happening and how we can use mastery of one craft to build confidence in others.
- Why you can have everything, but not at the same time
- Learning about your dreaming instead of pursuing it
- Meeting the enormity of what is possible for us in our lives
- Using small wins to build confidence and overcoming failure
- Why our culture teaches to use grandiose language is not strategic
- Why we need to overthrow ourselves a little bit
- How music shapes and influences Jennifer’s art
- Getting comfortable with something unplanned happening
- Using artistry and mastery to transfer excellence to anything
- Leveraging obsession appointments to break patterns of negative thinking
Quotes
Loss is the gateway to freedom
Our work is to live as mortal people, but create immortal beautiful work
Resources Mentioned
The Denial of Death By Ernest Becker
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| 0:00.0 | If we can develop in our children a little bit of reflective thought and this process of looking |
| 0:05.2 | within and going, well, is that true for me? |
| 0:08.1 | And is that how I want to live today? |
| 0:11.2 | And then, but even limiting the amount of time on introspection I |
| 0:15.0 | swear I lost 20 years of my life reading self-help books I was you know I write |
| 0:20.1 | this stuff now you know but it's like well come and read a blog post and then go |
| 0:24.0 | live your beautiful life and see how that works and let me know. And we'll |
| 0:28.7 | learn this together. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative |
| 0:38.1 | podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most |
| 0:41.6 | innovative and creative minds who started movements, |
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