Search for Guidance: How to Find the Answers You Seek | Julia Cameron

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Julia Cameron shares insights on the power of guidance and creativity. Julia Cameron, hailed as "The Queen of Change," is the best-selling author of The Artist’s Way and has been a transformative force in the creative world. She joins Chase Jarvis to discuss her new book, Living the Artist's Way, which introduces a revolutionary tool for finding creative inspiration: writing for guidance.

During the conversation, Julia explains the difference between morning pages and writing for guidance, emphasizing the specificity and power of asking direct questions. They explore the importance of acceptance and grief in the creative process and how these less flashy aspects can be catalysts for growth. Julia shares personal experiences and insights, including her journey of acceptance in a long-lasting love.

Some highlights we explore:

The distinction between morning pages and writing for guidance
The power of asking specific questions for guidance
The role of acceptance and grief in creativity

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	What does play have to do with working on our creativity?
0:08.5	And I try to explain gently that we have an expression, the play of ideas.
0:19.0	And we don't realize that it's actually a prescription. Play and you will have ideas.
0:30.3	Hello and welcome to the episode of the show. I'm your host Chase Jarvis here on the Chase Jarvis
0:35.0	Live show. Welcome. And today is a treat. It's an absolute treat. We have Jarvis here on the Chase Jarvis Live show. Welcome and today is a treat.
0:39.2	It's an absolute treat.
0:40.1	We have a living legend on the show today.
0:42.9	And her name is Julia Cameron.
0:45.8	It is the third time on the show.
0:48.0	She does not do a lot of public appearances.
0:50.3	And every couple years, we get a chance to sit down with Julia.
0:56.0	And today's one of those days.
0:58.2	I'm very, very excited to share with you.
1:04.1	If you are unfamiliar with her work, she is the legend behind the book, The Artist's Way, one of the all-time leading, number one, but bestselling, you know, most talked about, most shared books about
1:13.6	the creative process. In the artist's way, she has shaped all sorts of vocabulary that helps,
1:22.2	you know, us creatives talk to one another, think about our problems, get the ideas that are inside of us
1:29.0	out and into the world. And today's show specifically, she welcomes a new body of work that
1:35.3	stems from her original book called The Artist's Way. This one is entitled Living the Artist's Way,
1:43.7	where, as you might guess, it's about the creative life.
1:48.2	Super inspirational, very, very, very tactical.
1:52.8	Today's book that is the subject of the show talks about how in six weeks you can learn a set of
1:59.5	radical new skills that will help your creativity, take your
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