No Artist Tolerates Reality

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The world would have you believe that creativity is an indulgence. “Get a real job” or “find something you’re good at” are a few common phrases that get thrown around. But so long as you do that, you’re on someone else's path. It isn't living your own life - it's following someone else's. Why spend your life that way when you could be seeing the world for what it really is?

In today’s episode, we’ll explore what Friedrich Nietzsche meant by his words "No artist tolerates reality" and why it’s fodder for artists like you and me, even today.

We’ll also dig into why:

Creators cannot tolerate the “status quo.”
Creativity is your birthright.
Reality is malleable and different for everyone.
Everything in this world was created by someone just like you.
When you choose creativity, you distort reality, introducing a part of you into it to make a change in the lives of others.
Establishing a creative practice is the only way to a creative life.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	No artist tolerates reality.
0:08.0	That's one of my favorite Frederick Nietzsche quotes of all time.
0:12.0	No artist tolerates reality.
0:15.0	What does that mean?
0:16.0	What it means, and to put it bluntly, is that too many of us spend years, maybe even decades in pursuit of
0:23.9	somebody else's plan for our one precious life. Right? We are trapped. We're so trapped so often
0:31.0	by our limiting beliefs, by the well-trod paths of others, by all, our cultures shoulds. But I'm here to tell you
0:40.3	today in today's micro show that this trap, it's an illusion, right? It is an illusory trap. It's not
0:47.1	real. The world would have you believe that, you know, a creative practice is an indulgence,
0:53.4	that following your dreams is an
0:55.3	impractical waste of resources and time that would be better invested in, in basically anything
1:01.4	else, right?
1:01.9	The world has a narrative that it wants you to fit comfortably in.
1:06.6	They want you to invest time in something more practical, something more worthy.
1:10.3	And, you know, I'm not sure what that more worthy thing is, right?
1:14.9	Investing in the stock market or, you know, going to school and getting a degree,
1:19.2	performing science experiments.
1:20.9	Like, it's never clear what you're supposed to do instead of pursuing your creative practice,
1:26.6	instead of pursuing your dreams practice instead of pursuing your
1:28.0	dreams for this one precious life it's only just said vaguely or fuzzily that
1:33.6	pursuing creativity is lofty or selfish or you know god forbid naive right we've all
1:39.7	got that that uncle or grandparent or career counselor that tells you that it's naive to pursue these things.
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