Managing Expectations [119]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week we're celebrating our one millionth podcast download, something neither of us imagined when we started. And it made us think about expectations ... where do they come from? What effect do they have? And how can we learn to manage them? During the course of the discussion, we unpick the difference between intentions and expectations and discuss whether Shakespeare had it right when he declared that "expectation is the root of all heartache.”
This episode starts with a rather long discussion about technical challenges, which is so on the money - because none of us expect that, when we decide to become an artist, we will spend large amounts of our time solving technology problems. But, it turns out to be a large part of the life of a working artist. As always, that gap (between what we expect and what is reality) can really catch us out. Perhaps the answer is to have no expectations, but neither of us can claim to have attained that level of enlightenment just yet. But maybe being aware of the trap, and catching ourselves when we fall into it, is all we need to do.
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Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Pleasures-Between-Covers-Book/dp/147461390X/
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| 0:00.0 | When you feel a crushing sense of disappointment, |
| 0:03.8 | to ask yourself what expectation was behind this feeling, |
| 0:08.4 | what was the underlying expectation |
| 0:12.2 | so you can question it. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to |
| 0:20.0 | and welcome to Art Juice. |
| 0:22.0 | This is honest, generous and humorous |
| 0:24.4 | conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me |
| 0:28.2 | Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher and this is episode 119 and we have got some exciting news. |
| 0:38.5 | Today we hit a million downloads, which is quite gobstacking and it is all thanks to you. |
| 0:48.6 | So we wanted to say thank you, thank you very much for listening and sharing and helping make sure that we're still doing this |
| 0:57.1 | a hundred and nineteen episodes in really. Yeah we would I don't know well I wonder if we would just show up and do it anyway I'm not sure we |
| 1:04.4 | would but it feels when we do it like we're talking just to ourselves anyway |
| 1:09.2 | doesn't feel like there's you know 10,000 people or whatever listening to each episode but there is and that's |
| 1:17.7 | amazing thank you and it's really funny because we actually had the title for this week planned in advance, but it really neatly ties in with that. So we're going to be talking about expectations today and so we might kind of touch back on some of the expectations or |
| 1:35.4 | thoughts that we've had about the podcast and what we've learned from doing it but |
| 1:39.3 | also in the broader picture of expectations that we have perhaps around our creative life or expectations that you have for art and what happens if these get derailed and how you use those to guide you. |
| 1:52.0 | But first of all, tell me about your week. What have you been working on? |
| 1:56.6 | Well, it's been a week again of no painting, which is kind of okay because I've reached the end of a series and I've got to you know recharge and get into the next one but |
| 2:09.2 | it's been necessitated by the fact that I've just had so much to do and I've written on my notes |
| 2:16.9 | tech hell but it was tech hell with moments of of achievement which are really good feeling. |
| 2:26.0 | Tech hell number one was that Facebook is now is constant, sorry this is an apple thing, |
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