How to Live a Good Life with Jonathan Fields
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Discover the secrets to living a fulfilling life with Jonathan Fields in this enlightening episode of the Unmistakable Creative podcast titled 'How to Live a Good Life'. Jonathan Fields, a renowned entrepreneur, author, and host of The Good Life Project, shares his insights on the iterative process of growth and learning. He emphasizes that success is not the only metric but rather the lessons learned and personal growth achieved along the journey.
Fields encourage listeners to answer a deeper calling within themselves, acknowledging that the path to creating something meaningful often takes years if not decades. He references the classic Ira Glass quote, highlighting that one's sense of taste develops long before the ability to produce at that level. This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand the essence of living a good life and the importance of being open to the possibility of a long, rewarding journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Rather than going into this and saying this is an iterative process where every time I do something my primary metric is growth and learning |
| 0:10.7 | Most people go into it and their primary metric is this must succeed. |
| 0:15.0 | And then when it doesn't succeed because it, you know, very often it doesn't, |
| 0:21.0 | you know, by their terms of I've created something beautiful. |
| 0:24.1 | Like the dream outcome that I had is the outcome that I actually experience. |
| 0:27.2 | And when it doesn't hit that, then people look at the entire investment |
| 0:32.4 | as a failure. |
| 0:33.8 | And they get dejected because they're like, well, |
| 0:35.6 | why would I do that again? |
| 0:36.8 | Because I'm just going to end up banging my head |
| 0:38.2 | against the wall again. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm going to go do something else. |
| 0:40.2 | Rather than looking at it and saying, you know what, |
| 0:42.4 | I'm in this because something deeper inside of me is calling to be in this. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm, I have a sense for what I want to be capable of creating and I'm open to the possibility that this will very likely |
| 0:56.7 | take me years if not decades. You know, it's a classic Ira-glass quote, right? You develop that sense of |
| 1:02.4 | taste long before you develop the |
| 1:05.2 | capability to produce on the level that of that taste. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window |
| 1:17.2 | into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started |
| 1:21.2 | movements, built driving businesses, written best selling books, and created |
| 1:25.0 | insanely interesting art. |
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