Mind Management, Not Time Management With David Kadavy

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

Self-improvement, Arts, Books, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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How do we make time for original insights that set our creative work apart? How do we reframe productivity so it serves our career for the long term? David Kadavy talks about mind management, not time management in this interview. In the intro, Jane Friedman reports on how the pandemic is affecting book publishing, lessons […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,
0:09.0	bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book.
0:17.0	You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at
0:23.0	TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show.
0:30.5	Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 548 of the podcast. And it is Friday the 23rd of April 2021 as I record this.
0:42.6	In today's show, I'm talking to David Cadaby about how we need to make time for original insights that set our creative work apart and the importance of reframing productivity. So it serves our career for the long
0:56.8	term, rather than just providing short-term cash. So that is coming up in the interview segment.
1:04.8	In publishing news, Jane Friedman reports on her blog about how the pandemic is affecting book publishing,
1:12.3	mainly focused on the USA with lots of insights.
1:15.9	So obviously book sales have shifted online during the pandemic,
1:20.6	which tends to favour older or backlist titles and known favourites.
1:25.2	The US has experienced 10 years of e-commerce growth in three months,
1:30.8	with books, music and video seeing some of the most dramatic shifts to online sales.
1:36.6	This new environment makes it critical that publishers and authors adjust marketing and sales
1:41.4	strategies and build new skill sets, as these changes are likely to become
1:45.8	permanent. And of course, that's what we're already doing as Indies. From the article,
1:53.3	the seismic change is in digital. From now on, publishers must treat book selling as digital first,
1:59.8	physical second, with no further questions asked.
2:03.3	And of course, Jane notes that you won't find the New York Times discussing the fortunes of self-published
2:08.2	authors, many of whom reported growing sales during the pandemic. And that is, of course, we are
2:13.3	already digital first and well placed for this shift to online sales of print, as well as
2:18.6	ebook and audio. But I do think probably the biggest thing we have to recognise as authors who
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