Embrace The Thrash
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2014
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Every long-term creative endeavor requires you to cycle into "The Thrash."
That window where everything you thought you knew gets thrown into the wind, everything certain becomes uncertain and the way you contribute to your art, business, career and life are all up for grabs.
It's not about floundering or wallowing, it's about owning the fact that you've been going sideways for a while and it's time to step into that space that sets you up for the next big evolutionary step. Even if it scares the daylights out of you.
The other side of The Thrash is possibility, growth and power. But, all too often, you can't see that until you're through it.
How you handle this cyclic creative rite of passage determines whether you get to the next level, what it looks like and how much ease you experience along the way.
That's what we're talking about in the third episode in our August Summer Jam Series.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Good Life Project, where we take you behind the scenes for in-depth candid conversations |
| 0:10.6 | with artists, entrepreneurs, makers, and world shakers. |
| 0:15.1 | Here's your host, Jonathan Fields. |
| 0:17.7 | So part of growing and evolving is an intentionally testing the boundaries of an experience that |
| 0:31.4 | perceived as outwardly successful, but that's begun to feel inwardly complacent. |
| 0:37.1 | Thing is doing that means taking a risk, both in ego and ease. |
| 0:41.9 | It means going from being on top of your game, or at least the perception of it to potentially |
| 0:46.4 | stumbling, falling down, not knowing which way is up. |
| 0:50.2 | And the thing is, if you never feel that way, there's a good chance that you're going sideways. |
| 0:55.6 | And sideways kills. |
| 0:57.7 | We all need to rattle our own cages on a pretty regular basis. |
| 1:01.4 | I mean, the beginning of nearly every move from a period of sustained success to evolutionary |
| 1:07.4 | quest is defined by waves of uncertainty, of questioning everything that you know, |
| 1:12.5 | often realizing what you thought until recently was relative mastery was really ignorance, |
| 1:19.2 | plus one maybe, and the first wrong on a ladder, the end of which lies beyond sight. |
| 1:24.8 | Now that awakening massively screws with you. |
| 1:27.4 | It lays you bare. |
| 1:29.1 | It forces you to start exploring the foundation of everything you believe in and everywhere |
| 1:33.7 | you sought to go and grow. |
| 1:36.7 | On the surface, it's not a good feeling, at least while you're in it. |
| 1:40.9 | The funny enough, that's kind of where I am right now. |
| 1:43.8 | It's not that I don't have fantastic projects going on, or brilliant family and friends |
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