Ep. 196: The Importance Of Being Okay With Other People’s Good Ideas

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Now that Fantasy Island is ramping up, Liz and Sarah have been having LOTS of meetings. One revelation that’s come out of all these Zoom sessions? When there’s a potentially tricky issue or point of discussion, tackle it head on! You’re going to have to talk about whatever it is eventually, so take the opportunity to show you’re not scared of any challenge. Then, in The Craft (& Fain), they discuss why it’s SO IMPORTANT to set aside ego and insecurities in order to be okay with other people’s good ideas. Next up is a Listener Question — but this time Sarah and Liz are the ones who are looking for answers from listeners. What should they wear on the Fantasy Island set in Puerto Rico? Finally, this week’s Hollywood Hack is a tool to foster creativity: a set of cards called Oblique Strategies (by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt). Happier in Hollywood is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Happier with Gretchen Rubin, Side Hustle School, Do The Thing, and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! Oblique Strategies: http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I saw the photo of Violet's new Pixie cut on Instagram. I love it. I know it's so
0:07.0	cute. I think Pixie cuts are like the pandemic thing to do. My whole Instagram
0:11.5	feed is full of Pixie cuts. She's so happy. Did I tell you what she said about her
0:18.0	cut? No. She said that this haircut is the most her haircut she's ever had.
0:26.0	Oh, I know. I didn't like it because if she didn't that would have been traumatic.
0:37.0	Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood. The podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:42.1	sainter, more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting
0:46.7	superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world. I'm Liz Kraft, a TV writer and
0:53.5	producer living in LA and with me is my high school friend and writing partner Sarah.
0:58.3	That's me, Sarah Fane. On this podcast, we talk about being brighters in Hollywood, how
1:02.7	we balance a career and friendship, and how to survive the war of attrition that is life
1:07.7	in Los Angeles. In today's episode, we're going to talk about why it's best to tackle
1:12.6	something head on. I did this recently and it led to success. Then in the craft and
1:19.0	fame, we'll discuss a very important skill, being okay with other people having better
1:24.9	ideas than you do. We also have a listener question, but today we are the ones doing the asking.
1:31.6	Finally, this week's Hollywood hack is a tool to combat writers block or any kind of creative
1:37.2	block, but first an update. So Sarah, we got this email from Amy in the UK. She said,
1:43.9	Hi, Sarah and Liz, I've been doing a daily loop around the block at lunchtime, whilst in
1:48.9	never ending lockdown in the UK, and pairing it with listening to an old podcast episode
1:54.7	that for some reason I miss listening to at the time. I've just listened to episode 148
2:00.5	about time blocking from March 2020, which I found intriguing and wondered how you were
2:05.9	doing with this given all the changes in 2021. Did it become a habit which you've tweaked
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