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Working: Shaking a Creative Slump

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts June Thomas and Isaac Butler address the dread of slumps and how they can affect any creative career. Whether it’s breaking down your project into tiny parts, treating yourself, or simply moving on to a new career altogether, there are many ways to escape a slump. They also dig into the pangs of professional jealousy and how to let it go. Do you have a question about creative work? Leave a message at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com.    Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello I'm Ian Stirling and I'm with one of McCain's farmers who grow their

0:04.0

petite hang on these are odd looking potatoes. That's kale Ian. You do know you need

0:09.0

potato to make chips right? Yes but we don't just grow potatoes we actually

0:13.8

rotate different crops to help keep the soil healthy. So we eat McCain chips I'm

0:17.7

helping do some good. Exactly yeah you're supporting the move to regenerative

0:21.8

farming. By the way I do know the difference between kale and potatoes. Of course

0:27.2

you do. McCain, let's all check in.

0:35.1

Welcome back to Working Over Time the advice focused Huey, Dewey and Louie to

0:40.3

workings Donald Duck. I'm Isaac Butler and I'm June Thomas Isaac. What have

0:45.6

you got for us today? I've got some fairly sore hip flexors because I overdid

0:51.1

it working out this morning but I also have an art related project I want to

0:55.0

talk about which is I just have this thing that I think you'll be

0:58.9

particularly helpful with which is garbage time. No I am not talking about

1:03.7

dumping out your trash although you know I know you had to do a lot of that when

1:07.4

you moved. I'm talking about what you do when things aren't working out and

1:12.2

they aren't clicking when the inspiration won't come when every sentence or

1:16.7

brushstroke or note you write down is just excruciating when you're in a

1:21.3

slump creatively professionally spiritually. How do you navigate it? How do you

1:26.8

get through it? I know just exactly what you're talking about but why did you

1:30.5

want to talk to me about this Isaac? What are you saying? No no June June I

1:35.6

didn't mean it that way no reason to get paranoid. I want to talk to you about

1:38.6

this because you are so well read in the world of productivity and creativity

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