Inventing Point B with Amy Whitaker
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
“A work of art is something new in the world that changes the world to allow itself to exist. What that means is that the context you’re making something in, the world itself is different when you start and when you end. So you’re not just going from point A to point B within a static known world. You’re in the point A world figuring out how to lead from questions and risk developing things that are kind of unknown as to whether they’ll succeed or fail. If they succeed, you have created a point B world. You’ve made something that then changes the world to make space for itself in a very small or large way. These don’t have to all be grand gestures, just kind of acts of putting a dent in the universe as the saying goes of trying to affect change, to show up in a way of consequence in your personal life, professional life and the world in general.” – Amy Whitaker
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Amy Whitaker is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the New Museum Incubator and principal in the curriculum development company Eggshell Knight. She's also the author of Art Thinking: How to Carve out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets and Bosses
“A work of art is something new in the world that changes the world to allow itself to exist. What that means is that the context you’re making something in, the world itself is different when you start and when you end. So you’re not just going from point A to point B within a static known world. You’re in the point A world figuring out how to lead from questions and risk developing things that are kind of unknown as to whether they’ll succeed or fail. If they succeed, you have created a point B world. You’ve made something that then changes the world to make space for itself in a very small or large way. These don’t have to all be grand gestures, just kind of acts of putting a dent in the universe as the saying goes of trying to affect change, to show up in a way of consequence in your personal life, professional life and the world in general.” – Amy Whitaker
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Hostgator hosts your website. As you have heard on the show, you can get a 30% discount on the hosting of your next creative or business project’s website hosting by clicking here.
Designcrowd gives you access to an entire creative team at a price that is accessible to anyone. For $100 off your first design project, click here and use promo code CREATIVE.
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| 1:19.6 | The idea, so if you just kind of think about that, work of art is something new in the world that |
| 1:27.6 | changes the world to allow itself to exist, what that means is that the context you're making something in, the world itself is different |
| 1:36.6 | when you start and when you end. |
| 1:38.8 | So you're not just going from point A to point B kind of within a static known world, you're in the point A world, |
| 1:47.8 | figuring out how to lead from questions and risk developing things that are kind of unknown as to whether they'll |
| 1:54.8 | succeed or fail and that if they succeed you have created a point B world. |
| 2:01.4 | You've made something that then changes the world to make space for itself. |
| 2:06.8 | In a very small or a large way, these don't have to all be grand gestures, just kind of acts know putting a dent in the universe as as the saying |
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