Design Matters From the Archive: Seth Godin
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
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🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In his third Design Matters interview, writer Seth Godin riffs on his 20th book—“The Practice”—a milestone text exploring creativity and the sheer power of doing the work and putting it out into the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:07.2 | We know that no one gets plumbers block, no one gets jugglers block. |
| 0:11.1 | Why do we get writers block? |
| 0:12.7 | Because we are afraid of bad writing, to put it on paper, to put it on canvas, to put |
| 0:18.9 | it wherever you do your work. |
| 0:21.5 | Show me the bad stuff, do enough bad stuff, and some good stuff is going to slip through |
| 0:26.6 | no matter how hard you try. |
| 0:31.6 | From a Ted family of podcasts, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. |
| 0:36.6 | For 15 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about |
| 0:42.8 | what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working |
| 0:46.8 | on. |
| 0:47.8 | On this episode, author and teacher Seth Goden talks about the practice of creativity. |
| 0:54.0 | Nobody starts working in a state of flow. |
| 0:58.0 | The only way to enter a state of flow is to begin working when you're not in a state |
| 1:02.2 | of flow. |
| 1:04.7 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
| 1:06.0 | We are conducting an audience survey, and we'd be really grateful if you could take just |
| 1:09.7 | a few minutes to respond. |
| 1:11.5 | Please visit survey.prx.org slash design matters to take the survey today. |
| 1:17.7 | That's survey.prx.org slash design matters. |
| 1:21.8 | Thanks. |
| 1:25.0 | Seth Goden chose an unusual title for his latest book. |
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