Growing Pains [76]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week's topic was inspired by a busy and stressful week for both of us - a week in which we had to learn, adapt, and employ what Alice calls "just-in-time" learning. Our discussion covers growing pains in both our art and our business. We discuss the importance of failure or mistakes (and how we learn from them) and debate Seth Godin's idea that sometimes we are struggling because we are in a dip and will soon start to come up out of it, while at other times we are struggling because we actually went into a cul-de-sac, from which we can never emerge. In this case, he suggests, the best course of action is to give up and find something else to do. In the end, we both lean towards the idea that learning and growing are essential, which makes growing pains not only inevitable but actually desirable. If you've ever send a marketing email with a dead link, started a project with no idea how to manage it, or spent years trying to make the wrong thing work, this episode is for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Like one day I said to Amy right I'm going to go to bed and get up early and do it in the morning |
| 0:05.4 | And she said well it's only 10 o'clock. I was like yeah you're right. She's a go just go and do 45 minutes now |
| 0:10.9 | Before bed and then you'll have made a start. Yeah, 1 a.m. |
| 0:14.8 | It's bad for me to be doing work that late. What happens is I'm kind of asleep but I'm |
| 0:20.4 | really not asleep, but it's also there's something a little bit |
| 0:23.5 | rebellious about it like staying up like a teenager. Does it mind you have been in |
| 0:28.4 | college when you hadn't done your essay and you have to say it really late to get it done. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to the art juice podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | This is honest, generous and hopefully humorous |
| 0:45.4 | conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me |
| 0:50.6 | Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:54.0 | And this is episode 76, and we are going to be talking about growing pains. |
| 1:00.0 | I had a really good alternative title for this and it was one of those things where you just |
| 1:06.0 | think oh that is a brilliant title and it gives me a totally new angle on it and I didn't |
| 1:10.4 | message you at the time I thought of it and now I can't remember for the life of me what |
| 1:15.7 | it was. There is going to be a whole blank gap somewhere in this. Of course I'm going to remember |
| 1:22.1 | the minute we stop recording. |
| 1:24.0 | Well if you're listening to this and it has a completely different title you know why. |
| 1:29.0 | That means that my brain started functioning again. |
| 1:36.0 | Okay, before we get into the main topic, |
| 1:39.2 | I'm just going to do a little call out again. |
| 1:42.2 | The British Podcast Awards are open at the moment and we would love it if you would vote for us. |
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