How to Make Time for Creativity
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
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🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
If you told me in my twenties that being rigorous about my schedule would be a major differentiator in the success of my creative work, I would have said, you’re crazy. You can’t put creativity in a box like that, I thought. In my mind, schedules only confined the creative process. Today, my thoughts on this have completely 180’d, and I firmly believe that setting a schedule can be your biggest ally as a creator. On today's show I break down how your schedule is actually your biggest ally.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, have you ever heard the saying, show me your calendar and I'll show you your priorities? |
| 0:11.0 | Show me your calendar and show me your spending habits and I'll show you your priorities. |
| 0:17.0 | My younger self thought that things like schedules were tools of conformity and repression. |
| 0:23.6 | You know, those are, these are things for bankers and for the military, certainly not for creators, |
| 0:28.8 | right? |
| 0:29.9 | The older and, I'll say, wiser people in my life who kept telling me to use a calendar, |
| 0:36.9 | I felt like just wanted to keep my creativity |
| 0:38.9 | contained. You know, Maya Angelou didn't have to worry about her schedule, I thought, because she |
| 0:43.4 | was an artiste. She just waited for inspiration to strike and then wrote a brilliant poem on |
| 0:49.1 | the spot, didn't she? I literally thought that. The reality is, that's not how it goes. Maya Angelou always made |
| 0:57.7 | time for her work, and she established that time, a framework, and she protected it. In fact, as |
| 1:05.3 | related by Mason Curry in Daily Rituals, his book on the Working Habits of Great Artists, |
| 1:10.8 | turns out that Maya Angelou made a practice of booking a hotel room to work in every day, |
| 1:17.0 | arriving before 7 a.m. and staying till well after lunch. Now, you know, on reflection, right, |
| 1:23.3 | this makes sense. Of course it makes sense. A poet knows better than anyone else the importance of timing and of structure, right? |
| 1:31.5 | And Ma'Angeloo as an example, she never left her creative output to chance, not in her poems and not in the structure of her day. |
| 1:40.1 | Now, I've learned through surviving a career's worth of deadlines that a schedule is one of a creator's greatest allies. |
| 1:49.0 | It is, if not the most, it is a super effective way to safeguard the time that you can devote to creative work, protecting those precious minutes from all of life's other demands. |
| 2:00.6 | It's also an insanely |
| 2:01.7 | powerful tool for ensuring that you invest the necessary time in rest and recovery, in sharpening |
| 2:08.5 | your skill set, and also in building community. If you've ever wondered how the most seasoned |
| 2:14.4 | pros in any discipline, if you've ever wondered how they manage to juggle all these functions, |
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