359 - The 3 Crucial Elements of a Potential Unlocking Creative Process
Have you ever fallen out of love with your creative practice? Maybe you got stuck and couldn’t reach your goals. Maybe you reached your goals and they weren’t as fulfilling as you thought they’d be? Maybe the creative process itself has become too fraught with expectation and pressure that you can’t even face the proverbial blank page?
In this episode we dive into essential ideas for unlocking meaningful and enjoyable work, and ultimately, get better results from this flow.
Key ideas from the episode:
- What philosopher Keiran Setiya calls “atelic” activity and why it matters to creative work
- The lie about creative potential that I had to learn the hard way
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SHOW NOTES
Creative Zero-To-Hero Series
1. Skill
2. Story
3. Style
4. Space
5. Psychology
6. Symbiatelic
sym·bi·o·sis (noun)
1. interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.
2. a mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups.
“atelic” activities — things we enjoy for their own sake. (Keiran Setiya)
Oliver Burkeman’s “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” Book
“Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness.” “How can there be play in a time in which nothing has meaning unless it leads to something else.”
– John Gray
“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late.”
– Alexander Hudson
Lulu Miller’s “Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life” Book
Jamie Drake’s “Easy Target” New Single
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CALL TO ADVENTURE
What could you do that would be atelic and symbiotic – symbiatelic – for people in your real life; something that you have fun doing that also benefits people around you?
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