Making Our Childhood Dreams Come True as Adults with Steph Halligan
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode motivational cartoonist and creator of Art to Self, Steph Halligan joins us to talk about how to make our childhood dreams come true as adults.
HIGHLIGHTS
- The Power of Doing Things Unrelated to Your Primary Work
- Why We Need to Feed Our Creative Interests
- Learning to Let Imagination Run Your Life
- Developing Your Creative Habits and Rituals
- Learning to Visualize Your Thoughts on Paper
- Resolving Creative Tension in Your Work
- Why Showing Up And Sharing Your Work Regularly Matters
- Cultivating Resilience and The Refusal of Defeat
- The 1000 True Fan Benchmark
- The Continuum of Artist Integrity
QUOTES
I’m fan of doing what you’re really good and the path of least resistance when it comes to creativity. (Click to Tweet)
You get to make a really hard to choice or slightly easy choicer to give up. (Click to Tweet)
BOOKS
Big Magic by Elizabeth Glibert
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Steph Halligan is a motivational cartoonist and creator of Art To Self, where she delivers daily inspiration to your inbox.
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| 0:00.0 | What I find is the point of contention and where that struggle usually happens is that consistency |
| 0:09.0 | in not just doing something creative every day even when you don't feel like it and |
| 0:14.2 | especially when you don't feel like it and two sharing it with the world |
| 0:18.4 | especially if you don't feel like it and so it's that consistency of I'm going to show up every day, even if it's 15 minutes, |
| 0:26.0 | even if it's a half an hour, even if it's more, and even if I feel no inspiration at all, you know, I have to do it and I'm also sharing it with the world and |
| 0:36.0 | I'm not going to be the person that has the pile of cartoons, you know, packed in my drawer that |
| 0:42.3 | I haven't shown to anyone else in my life |
| 0:44.8 | it's just as important to be consistent in how I create and when I create but |
| 0:49.7 | also how I share it with everyone else. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast |
| 1:01.0 | where you get a window into the stories and insights of the |
| 1:03.7 | most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built driving |
| 1:07.3 | businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
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