Tears & Tantrums: What to Do When Things Don’t Go as Planned [30]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Things haven’t gone to plan chez Alice and Louise this week. Alice’s much anticipated summer break was swamped by rain, meaning a lot of wet walks and NONE of the planned sketchbook days out. To compound the situation, she also lost internet which meant she couldn’t catch up on important work. Louise worked for months on an online course, only to be let down by Zoom, YouTube and Mailchimp all on the same evening. The result was less than pretty!
Given these mini-disasters, we discuss how we react when things go wrong. It’s easy to say ‘put things into perspective’ but do we need to feel that emotion first? And if so, is there a way to feel the emotion, but also keep things in perspective?
We also answer a question about art degrees. One listener is considering whether to go for an MA. We acknowledge that being an artist is about learning and stretching yourself, but we wonder whether taking an advanced degree is a safe option that simply postpones the inevitable time when you have to do this for yourself anyway.
We would love to hear you views on this topic too, if you’ve taken an MA, what did you feel it gave you?
Mentioned:
Louise's course - Find Your Joy
Two Dots - you really don’t want to waste your time on this (unless you are only human!)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We should just delete, delete this whole episode again. |
| 0:03.2 | Just stop whining. |
| 0:06.6 | Right. Welcome to episode 30 of Art Juice. This is this is honest generous and humorous |
| 0:24.0 | conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me |
| 0:27.6 | Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher so the topic today is going to be about when things go, I don't want to say the word wrong, |
| 0:35.8 | awry not quite as you expect, don't go according to plan and this might kind of follow on a little bit from what we've been working on this week, but let's start with that and we'll see how we go. |
| 0:48.0 | And we've also got a great question that came in about the merits or not should I go on and take an MA in art. |
| 0:56.2 | So I think that's going to be a good discussion. |
| 0:58.6 | But first of all, how has your week been? |
| 1:00.6 | And I should say at this point that we usually record this on a Thursday or a Friday and then we have the weekend to edit and do all the bits and post it and before it goes out on Tuesday. |
| 1:11.0 | It is Monday morning so we have to have it all done today so the week has just |
| 1:17.0 | begun so we're talking about last week how was last week for you? |
| 1:20.3 | Last week was a bit nuts. I have been saying for weeks about preparing to deliver a free course and that was happening last week. |
| 1:30.0 | And so it was a free online course there ended up being about 3,000 people enrolled in it |
| 1:38.0 | which was a lot more than I expected. |
| 1:40.0 | It's amazing. |
| 1:42.0 | Now of those I would say they were probably 2,000 active people. There's always people who sign up and then for one reason or another they can't do it. But still that is a lot of people and it's been amazing fun and |
| 1:57.4 | amazing learning because you've been involved with CVP which is an online course on a much bigger scale and so you know |
| 2:06.3 | what happens with these courses is that people have questions. I had 3,000 people enrolled, I had about 2,000 of those who were actively involved and sometimes it felt like |
| 2:18.6 | about a thousand of those were sending me questions all at the same time and they were great questions and I |
| 2:26.1 | learned so much from doing it and I must say I've got a year's worth of blog |
| 2:31.9 | content and video content out of the questions. |
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