Done Isn't Easy: The Advice I Needed to Make My Project Deadline

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I bring on my long time friend and collaborator Christopher Jerard to discuss something I’ve been really struggling with lately: being stuck. Yes, it happens to all of us no matter how long you’ve been at it. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but a casual conversation between two friends around why we get stuck and how we can help ourselves get out of it. As the Vice President of the Outside Creator Studio, Christopher brings his extensive experience in media and publishing to the conversation.

We dive deep into the topic of play and its transformative power. We discuss the work of Priya Parker on gathering and setting intentions, as well as the book "Play It Away" by Charlie Hone, which explores play as a relief from anxiety. We explore the benefits of play in creativity, connectivity, and overall well-being.

Some highlights we explore:

The struggle of feeling stuck and how it is a natural part of the creative process
The importance of embracing the process and going deep to achieve meaningful results
How play can unlock inspiration and help us find flow
Practical ways to incorporate play into our daily lives
The role of play in fostering connection and building community

I hope this episode helps you as much as it helped me.

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm stuck and been working on this book for 18 months.
0:04.1	The book is due in four weeks.
0:07.0	And I want to lay bare the fact that as a person who has lived, you know, 20 creative lives and as someone who writes on the topic, speaks on the topics, you know, stands on stages and talks about the topic that I, too, still experience it. What we used to talk about was, if you are not
0:25.9	sick of a project when it nears the end of that project, you did not go deep enough. And I can't
0:31.7	say I'm sick of the book, but I am, I'm grinding hard to make it the best.
0:37.7	And so it gets really, really hard before you hand it in.
0:41.5	And if it's not, I think then you probably didn't go deep enough, didn't ask hard enough questions, didn't push yourself enough.
0:47.8	So it sounds like you're intellectually, like you're, you actually feel like you're on track.
0:52.8	Like this is a normal part of the pain of the last
0:55.8	part of the process and the struggle is just the forgetting wow this really actually sucks
1:02.8	and and and i wish it were over but i have to do the work to to it over. And I kind of wish that it was easier.
1:16.4	Hey, hey, hey, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. Today's show is a special
1:21.2	on one of my new favorite kinds of shows. As you know, we're experimenting with some formats.
1:25.6	We've always had the guest format where I have a game-changing, elite performing one-of-a-kind human being on to talk about a new project or some insight that they have. And then you have the micro shows where I'm talking a small, you know, potent dose of something I've working on or learned or that I've
1:45.9	written about or want to write about something that's important and near and dear to me.
1:49.5	And then this kind of a show, what today's show is, today's episode is a friend episode.
1:55.1	Also incredible humans, as you might imagine, my friends are awesome people.
1:58.6	In this particular episode, it's my dear friend Christopher Gerard. But the concept behind these episodes is someone I've been friends with for a really
2:05.0	long time, you know, in this case, 20 plus years. And the goal of these episodes is to have a little
2:10.5	bit more intimate conversation, you know, where I know something a little bit more about this
2:15.5	person and this person, you know, and I have, we go way back, so that's that we can turn ourselves in our lives and,
2:21.5	you know, inside out on some compelling topics. The compelling topics for today's show,
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