362 - Why You End Up Right Where You Started and 3 Ways to Breakthrough
Is there an area of your creative practice that you just can not seem to make progress in? Do you second guess every new piece and project to the point of doing nothing at all?
In this episode we explore the two competing forces within you that are pulling your creativity apart, and how to get them working together on the same team.
In this episode:
- Why the definition of creativity is surprising
- What it means to be a career creative
- An activity for determining what work you should focus on
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SHOW NOTES
Lauren Hom’s “Creative Productivity: Build a Brief to Boost Your Passion Project” Skillshare Class
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CALL TO ADVENTURE
The Woodchuck Activity:
- Take your body of work from the past and try to identify the categories.
- Filter them through the Venn diagram of Novel & Useful.
- Find what overlap can help you build a system that strikes a balance!
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