INSPIRED TO STEAL - S03E18
MCMANUS (Formerly Mind Shift) with Erwin & Aaron McManus
Erwin McManus + Aaron McManus
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Erwin and Aaron McManus discuss the relationship between imitation, theft, and originality in creating something new.
Erwin ruminates that before you create, first you imitate; there is a structure to every piece of clothing, art, film, etc. that serves as the beginning for every creative process.
Aaron dives into inspiration and shares the origins of his creative process. They both discuss Erwin's past and present work - the people who have copied his talks and books with no apology and great success, and the projects he is currently pursuing that people in his life didn't believe he could achieve. Erwin reminds us that to create anything is courageous - but we must be compelled to create the best expression of what is unique to us.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hi, my name is Aaron McManus, and you were listening to the Battle Ready |
| 0:18.3 | Podcast and I'm here with my dad. |
| 0:20.7 | Hi, I'm Erwin, McManus, it's good to be here. |
| 0:22.4 | How you doing? How's your week going? I will. Dad. Hi, I'm Erwin, I'm Candace. It's good to be here. |
| 0:23.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:24.0 | How's your week going? |
| 0:25.0 | Well, it's going well. |
| 0:28.0 | Is it? |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, you're trying to lie right now. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, it's just been a season a year of injuries for me. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah well you're 62. Well thank you so much for highlighting you look great you look amazing you really do |
| 0:42.2 | but I was playing basketball and we played for a couple of hours, maybe two and a half hours in the last play. One of my friends who was on my team ran full speed and didn't see me crashed into me and pop my shoulder so I'm gonna go from |
| 0:57.5 | here to the doctor's office and get x-rays to make sure it's popped back in |
| 1:02.0 | properly. |
| 1:02.6 | Matt came home. I live with Matt again. I've lived with this guy like four different times. |
| 1:06.7 | He gets married and he did tell, you did tell him to not tell me. |
| 1:11.1 | He walks in. He's like, I I was like how's my dad doing is like |
| 1:13.7 | ah he's not he didn't say anything initially but he's a bad at lying and so he's |
| 1:18.9 | staying at my house for a week he's getting married and he told me you got injured again. |
| 1:24.2 | Every time you play basketball you get injured, |
| 1:26.5 | are you gonna stop? |
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