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It can be crippling. But when you consider that everything we create is something new, in uncharted territory, it makes sense that we feel like we’re making it up as we go. Where we get into trouble is when we compare our process with others. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-002 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1567711600732-YCA948EIN1J8QK4NII0X/ABA+Album+Art+002.jpg Podcast - OVERWHELMED - Episode 002: Overwhelmed I’m feeling overwhelmed these days, like Hokusai’s Great Wave keeps hanging above me, threatening to swallow me whole. This episode explores the feelings of being overwhelmed that can paralyze us, and suggests some of my own solutions for dialing it all back, and turning the flood into flow. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-003 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1567632123096-D8MWJYVGV9HIAUPW211K/ABA+Album+Art+003.jpg Podcast - MAKE THE TIME - EPISODE 003: MAKE THE TIME One of the most common struggles I hear from everyday creatives is that we just don’t have enough time. But we all have the same 24-hour block, so how do some people get so much done? They get intentional with their time and employ simple tactics to prioritize, batch the small stuff and schedule the big stuff in. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-004 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1569517423010-3OGJUY9KCYXUTH33QCOV/ABA+Album+Art+004.jpg Podcast - ABOUT PERFECTION - EPISODE 004: ABOUT PERFECTION One of the greatest barriers to creativity, and - I would argue - to life itself, is fear. That fear manifests itself in many ways but one of the more destructive is the perfectionism so many of us are paralyzed by. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-005 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1569520902052-BLOOIYJHEDFPS7YALQGJ/ABA+Album+Art+005.jpg Podcast - LEAVING DAFEN - EPISODE 005: LEAVING DAFEN There is a village in China where thousands of painters make their living together, painting away their days in spartan studios, covered in paint, surrounded by canvases. The village is called Dafen, and it intrigues me because, for all the technical prowess possessed by the painters in that community, it is not known for its art. Not really. That is to say it’s not known for its own art. It’s known for being the world’s largest source of counterfeits and copies of art. Want a Mona Lisa but don’t have the 500 million it might cost you? You can get one in Dafen for a handful of dollars, relatively speaking. And it’ll be a very good copy. But is it art, and was it made by an artist? And why does it matter? This is episode 5 of A Beautiful Anarchy, let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-006 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1569520813939-QLQ5L7Y2UEUSG7V8K1PN/ABA+Album+Art+006.jpg Podcast - BE VERY YOU - EPISODE 006: BE VERY YOU Your first task as an artist, or whatever you choose to call yourself if the word “artist" gives you hives, is to be you. Not reluctantly, not hesitantly, and not in half-measures, though that’s how it often starts. Your first task is not to figure out what “art” means, or to have an exhibit, write a book, or get business cards that say “artist” on them. It’s to be (and to become) you. This is Episode 006 of A Beautiful Anarchy. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-007 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1570050696738-G1FGLJSRZDWECZ28MFZP/ABA+Album+Art+007.jpg Podcast - JUST AN AMATEUR? - EPISODE 007: JUST AN AMATEUR? Just an amateur? I don’t think so. You can do your art part time, but you can’t do it half-heartedly. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-008 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1570628911084-GS8BD4LQ9OIFLQ8ECYHX/ABA+Album+Art+008.jpg Podcast - TAKE ME DEEPER - EPISODE 008: TAKE ME DEEPER Our best work, our deeper work doesn’t happen accidentally. It needs focus and time, and often solitude, free from the distractions that threaten those very things. It’s all about flow and we’re getting less of it now than ever before. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-009 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1570630185543-8IRC6RNL8O6LG26DRT5W/ABA+Album+Art+009.jpg Podcast - THE PROBLEM WITH MUSES - EPISODE 009: THE PROBLEM WITH MUSES Tempting as it is to wait for inspiration and blame the muses when it doesn’t show, creativity is up to us. You don’t wish for creativity, you do the work. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-010 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1574706398504-X0OSVE4F1HTGA1Z7QJQP/ABA+Album+Art+010.jpg Podcast - BEAUTIFUL WARRIORS - EPISODE 010: BEAUTIFUL WARRIORS The creative life has plenty of fight in it. Most of us fear the fight. But when you learn to take a fall, and to anticipate & respect the daily struggle, you stop fearing it quite so much. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-011 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1574721125341-YJ0QVSHXG12770XPLQS9/ABA+Album+Art+011.jpg Podcast - SELL WITH SOUL - EPISODE 011: SELL WITH SOUL The first in a now-and-then series called Craft + Commerce, for those of you who fight the daily fight not only on the canvas or the blank piece of paper, but on a spreadsheet, this one’s about selling your work without selling, or soiling, your soul. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-012 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1574722017936-I9BZL7XRLWR2E7TEEECU/ABA+Album+Art+012.jpg Podcast - LEARNING TO DROP - EPISODE 012: LEARNING TO DROP This is the first of two conversations about self-confidence and creativity. Everyone I know wrestles with the voices in their heads and gets held back at times with the ongoing chatter that says “I can’t do this” or “who am I to put my stuff out there?” Learning to believe that we can do this, whatever it is, is a matter of small wins and being open to exceeding our expectations for ourselves. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-013 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575065745822-39GGNIFTL9PWO0E9NUTD/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+013.jpg Podcast - WHERE IS YOUR HALL PASS? - EPISODE 013: WHERE'S YOUR HALL PASS? The second of two conversations about self-confidence and creativity, episode 13 is about the expectations we have of ourselves and the permission so many of us feel we need in order to do our work and do it our way. You don’t need a hall pass to do your best work. Life hasn’t only already given you permission but a mandate. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-014 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575066646787-97Q7Q83TJFS5MYZLADRL/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+014.jpg Podcast - DEEPER WORK - EPISODE 014: DEEPER WORK Our deep work is the stuff that most important to us, our legacy stuff, the soul-level stuff for which we do our creative work in the first place, and many of us aren’t getting it done because we’re growing in the little details. Episode 14 is a discussion about 3 practices that might help you get back the time you need to feed the muse, give her some breathing room, and then put her to work. Ultimately we need both ideation time and creation time, and I’m hoping these ideas will give you a little more freedom to carve those out. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-015 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575067436584-UQTL8M83OMTRU4CG3P0N/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+015.jpg Podcast - CROWDSOURCING JOY - EPISODE 015: CROWDSOURCING JOY Does your creative work make you happy? Is it meant to? Are there more valuable emotional responses to our work, and would we, in the end, be (ironically) a lot happier if we stopped burdening our work with the need to make us happy? Have we been crowdsourcing our joy by looking to the likes and hearts and other forms of feedback instead of to the work itself? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-016 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575575643920-R6150QSL9MJNJ1RBDBYF/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+016.jpg Podcast - FEED THE STARVING ARTIST - EPISODE 016: FEED THE STARVING ARTIST The second in the Craft + Commerce series, this pragmatic episode is an exploration of an important first step in connecting to an audience on our terms, not subject to the algorithm of social media, but the permission of those who love what we do. It’s about connection, and yes, it’s about email, though not the slimy kind. The kind that connects your best audience with your work. The kind they’ll thank you for. The kind that will be instrumental in helping to feed the so-called starving artist. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-017 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575576154526-KCVFW4QA1FSDTV9XT3GY/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+017.jpg Podcast - A LIFE AT THE IMPROV - EPISODE 017: A LIFE AT THE IMPROV Some of my most important principles for a richer, healthier creative life were learned on a dusty little stage learning, and performing comedy improv. Improv is all about taking the unexpected and the uncertain and rolling with them, turning them into something great. So is creativity. And life. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-018 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575576913354-L23LDLZXR4B7Q7ZKS3ZZ/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+018.jpg Podcast - NOW WHAT? - EPISODE 018: NOW WHAT? Inevitably we all get to a point, hopefully frequently enough, when we finish what we’re working on, and we let it go, and we’re left with a hollow space, an emptiness that leaves us asking, “Well, now what?” What do you do then? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-019 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575577927348-W2AY5U5LLG8OQKC9TI95/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+019+.jpg Podcast - SECOND PLACE - EPISODE 019: SECOND PLACE In the 7th grade I won 2nd place in a contest in which I was the only entrant. To say it scarred me for life is an overstatement but it made me profoundly suspicious of the toxic instinct to compete and compare, most especially in creative efforts. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-020 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575580110146-7L745SFBB6TC53CMS8XO/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+020.jpg Podcast - BETTER QUESTIONS? - EPISODE 020: BETTER QUESTIONS? Much as we look for answers to questions in the creative life, it’s the quality of the questions that determines how fruitful the pursuit of those answers might be. Better questions are much more valuable than good answers. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-021 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1575581689277-FNHMJ0Q9WIFAT1QOTC03/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+021.jpg Podcast - HUNGER > TALENT - EPISODE 021: HUNGER > TALENT It’s easy to look at the creative life and chalk it all up to a matter of talent, but the most wildly creative and productive people have something better: hunger. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-022 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1583441263965-RSAF785SQMC0VBS2UJKD/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+022.jpg Podcast - THE BOSS OF ME - EPISODE 022: THE BOSS OF ME Most of us learned early how to behave, how to blend in and do what we were told, but art-making and creativity is no place for obedience, most especially when the voices asking us to play nice are the ones on the inside, telling us to play nice and maintain the status quo. Rebellion for the sake of rebellion isn’t helpful, but obedience for the sake of obedience can kill the creative spirit. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-023 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1583456495312-88IB5B0GTXW9FHFLYGIN/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+023.jpg Podcast - TOO LATE TO CHANGE - EPISODE 023: TOO LATE TO CHANGE If change is the one true constant in life and we’re subject to it as much as other things, why does it seem so hard to reinvent ourselves? Is it ever too late to evolve or start over, to move in new directions that are unexpected, to others, but often ourselves most of all? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-024 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1583471492180-9X2D88D0O2JD02LAYXO0/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+024.jpg Podcast - TOUCH THE HEART - EPISODE 024: TOUCH THE HEART Songwriter Leonard Cohen once asked “How do we produce work that touches the heart?” It’s a question I think we need to pursue if we’re going to make anything that finds traction or resonance, most especially for ourselves but for others. So how do we do it? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-025 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1584558858344-8TWUOYBPM0XE09NKK4EC/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+025.jpg Podcast - NAVIGATING FOG - EPISODE 025: NAVIGATING FOG Any creative effort, in fact life itself, is untaken in a context of uncertainty. But there are times things feel more uncertain than other, like we’re lacking direction. The Japanese concept of Ikigai provides helpful vectors or points of light, that make it easier to navigate in the fog. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-026 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1584559510689-1XW0NVVH4HGNM05MB5EB/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+026.jpg Podcast - IT'S NOT THE TOOL - EPISODE 026: IT'S NOT THE TOOL There’s a lot of talk these days about how much better analog tools are than digital, but when we rely on our tools to render soul and authenticity in our work, when the tools get either the credit or the blame, I think we’re heading in the wrong direction. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-027 monthly 0.5 2020-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1584560120404-EJBJXQFQ5W8QGXIJ4F26/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+027.jpg Podcast - FIND WHAT YOU LOVE? - EPISODE 027: FIND WHAT YOU LOVE? Poet Charles Bukowski says “find what you love and let it kill you” But that advice, edgy as it sounds doesn’t sit right with me anymore. But there’s another poet, also named Charles, and I like his life advice much more. Charles Baudelaire says “find what intoxicates you and let it give you life.” Or that’s how I read it. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-022-5 monthly 0.5 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1585158341627-N2X62W6W25F1LIB5F69H/ABA+Special+Episode+March29-2020.jpg Podcast - WHAT'S THE POINT? - EPISODE 022.5: WHAT'S THE POINT? In the wake of the pandemic I recently heard an artist express words I suspect many of us are thinking about making and sharing our art: what’s the point? These thoughts have been haunting me. What’s the point? We are. You are. Life itself is the point and we (and you!) need your art-making more than ever. Let’s talk about it, please. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-028 monthly 0.5 2020-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1589310282977-PX8YTTV6Y1QNQJSU689B/ABA+Episode+28+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - THE VALUE OF DOUBT - EPISODE 028: THE VALUE OF DOUBT Doubt gets a bad rap but it has long been doubt and the willingness to live with uncertainty that has led to innovation and creativity. What would happen in our creative lives if we were more willing to look more carefully at our doubts and set aside the things we’re so sure of? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-029 monthly 0.5 2020-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1589311070692-9LEEUA2UHOK0QPMQPHWY/ABA+Episode++029+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - THE SAME RIVER TWICE - EPISODE 029: THE SAME RIVER TWICE Everything changes, including we ourselves. Failure to recognize this essential impermanence, even to celebrate it, is a missed opportunity to live life as it is, not as we wish it could be, and to cope with change and uncertainty creatively rather than fearfully. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-030 monthly 0.5 2020-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1589312912619-1L4XHHJXHFH3V8VS2IRV/ABA+Episode+30+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - WITHOUT THE GARGOYLES - EPISODE 030: WITHOUT THE GARGOYLES In the Middle Ages, churches placed gargoyles on their roofs to remind parishioners of the dangers that awaited them without the church, both then and into eternity. Literally hanging over their heads, the gargoyles kept the faithful, well, faithful, and warded off evil spirits. Most creatives I know, if not most human beings, have voices and negative people in their lives that try to do the same. I say it’s time we chiseled them off. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-031 monthly 0.5 2020-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1591394876711-X8451CKB5VSXQG221ZJA/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+031.jpg Podcast - WHAT YOU DO WITH THE SCARS - EPISODE 031: WHAT YOU DO WITH THE SCARS Most of us have no shortage of scars, some are on the outside, some are on the inside, hidden but no less painful. Many of us are ashamed of these scars, we hide them, scared they make us damaged and vulnerable when in fact they show how resilient we are and can be, if we let them, a deep well in which we find the best of our art, our stories, and the hope and light we offer to others. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-032 monthly 0.5 2020-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1592941778224-G05JVJT0K4R6PFZVIMWZ/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+032.jpg Podcast - MISTAKES + MUTATIONS - EPISODE 032: MISTAKES + MUTATIONS Our creative lives are full of mistakes and missteps, but what if we embraced those rather than fearing them, looking to them as possibilities and relying on them as mutations that drive the evolution of our work. What if we saw them with less fear? Would we stop playing it safe and do better work? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-033 monthly 0.5 2020-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1592957328517-IXZPJY4ZQ9CACJC233FO/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+033.jpg Podcast - HARD BEGINNINGS - EPISODE 033: HARD BEGINNINGS Beginnings are hard but our creative lives depend on them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe knew a thing or two about getting things done. Not only did he live behind a legacy of astonishing prolific creativity but he left us words that suggest his secret: Begin. Begin with courage and boldness, without any guarantee of success. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-034 monthly 0.5 2020-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1593008791021-C4W7IGYB53SOCG8XZ7V7/ABA+Episode+034+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - THE LABEL STICKS - EPISODE 034: THE LABEL STICKS We love to label things, and to put them in a category. But we’re so often wrong, or biased, and our labels blind us to possibilities and creative thinking. How much more creative would we be if we were more suspicious of the labels, less eager to apply them, and more willing to pull them off when they no longer fit? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-035 monthly 0.5 2020-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1594937040172-12G2MH9JFYR4U75VE4PB/ABA+Episode+035+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Start Ugly + Start Often - EPISODE 035: START UGLY + START OFTEN Standing in front of Michelangelo’s David in Florence it’s hard not to be impressed, and easy to forget that masterpiece was once just a (very large) twice-abandoned chunk of dirty marble that no one seemed to want, or that Michelangelo himself was once a scrappy apprentice without the skill to find David in the marble. But they both became so much more. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-036 monthly 0.5 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1594937543998-RGARB7Q9I6F31XF8JHDY/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+036.jpg Podcast - The Problem with Deadlines - EPISODE 036: THE PROBLEM WITH DEADLINES Deadlines are often touted as a powerful constraint for creativity, a tool to help us get stuff done. But too often they aren’t a helpful tool so much as they are a source of guilt and pressure, and I think there might be a better way not only to use deadlines but to replace them with something that’s always helped me ever more. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-037 monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1596651098411-I8I7N06U4NREA9VYLB91/ABA+Episode+Album+Art+037.jpg Podcast - Saying Yes to No - EPISODE 037: SAYING YES TO NO Most of us learned to say No when we were babies. Some of us spent months saying No to everything. No we can hardly coax it out of our mouths when we need to, and this inability to say No is sabotaging our big Yes. We can’t do it all, and only knowing your Big Yes and defending it with an army of No is going to help you get your most important work done. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-038 monthly 0.5 2020-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1596651738005-5FZ4KPJQGTWDQ2SJWLRD/ABA+Episode+038+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Balance, Boredom & Burnout - EPISODE 038: BALANCE, BOREDOM & BURNOUT Balance is over-rated. Very few of us achieve ever really achieve it; I know I don’t. I tend to fall to one extreme or another with alarming frequency. Two of those extremes are boredom and burnout. But rather than feeling guilty (or scared) about either, is there a benefit to them, and how do we get back into flow when we’ve been bored and burned out for too long? I see boredom and burnout as part of the creative rhythm and they can signal one truly important thing. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-039 monthly 0.5 2020-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1596652276838-YQHTBOSPQJX1LBSHA3HW/ABA+Episode+039+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Stolen Ideas About Originality - EPISODE 039: STOLEN IDEAS ABOUT ORIGINALITY No one likes being called a copy-cat. Among the great pursuits of many everyday creative people is the desire for originality, to make things no one else has made. Is it possible? Is it desirable? And might we not be better served by spending our energies on becoming more distinct individuals and letting originality take care of itself? Let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-040 monthly 0.5 2020-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1599085936954-19INGUWUJOVU7MCRFLNF/ABA+Episode+040+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Feed the Fire - EPISODE 040: FEED THE FIRE What do you when the fire of your creative passions burns low or, for that matter, burns out entirely? Fire needs fuel, heat, and oxygen, and so does our creativity, though it doesn’t have to be all fire all the time and there’s nothing wrong with letting the flames burn out now and then, especially if the embers remain hot under the ashes. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-041 monthly 0.5 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1600474916902-971JICH8ARRY1I8ONCYP/ABA+Episode+041+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Un-Blank the Page - EPISODE 041: UN-BLANK THE PAGE Few things are as paralyzing as the pressure placed upon us by the blank page, or whatever version of that applies to you. It’s like those guys who used to find out I was a comedian and demand that I “say something funny.” There was no better way to make sure I then said something profoundly un-funny. You’re not the only one that feels like the blank page demands that you “do something creative!” Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-042 monthly 0.5 2020-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1600989586081-DE4I5GB2KJ4AR825SYLP/ABA+Episode+042+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - It Takes Guts - EPISODE 042: IT TAKES GUTS Aside from all the other voices we listen to, and the screaming rationality of our brains, there is a part of us that begs to be listened to and considered more carefully: the gut. I don’t know if it’s a kind of pre-rational thinking or if it’s instinct, but it’s got it’s finger on the pulse of what makes us distinctly us and we ignore it to our peril. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-043 monthly 0.5 2020-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1601663582411-9OO3TOYA8VCTV3UMVZL1/ABA+Episode+043+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Let Your Peg Bore Its Own Hole - EPISODE 043: LET YOUR PEG BORE ITS OWN HOLE After 10 wonderful years, Calvin and Hobbes, one of the last great newspaper comic strips, ended on January 31, 1985, leaving fans bereft and full of questions. Its creator, Bill Watterson, was silent on the issue. But years later he opened up about his life, his work, and the wonderful world he created with his popular strip, and why he ended it. What's that got to do with your own creative life? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-044 monthly 0.5 2020-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1602825458590-GAIM5UK3MRIQ3AP4H83L/ABA+Episode+044+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Play the Unplayable - EPISODE 044: PLAY THE UNPLAYABLE On January 24, 1975, American Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett sat down at a piano in Cologne, Germany, and recorded the best-selling solo album in jazz history. Not much of a story. But when you learn he improvised the whole thing on an unplayable piano, it becomes an astonishing lesson in showing up and in making art not despite our limitations but because of them. Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-045 monthly 0.5 2020-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1603206556824-GA1KYTPYUF7C7EZCAVJT/ABA+Episode+045+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - The Feedback Trap - EPISODE 045: THE FEEDBACK TRAP It's never been easier to get feedback on the work we create, and it's never been harder to avoid it. But is that feedback helping us make work that's authentic and meaningful or can it be a trap that pushes us further away from that same kind of work? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-046 monthly 0.5 2020-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1603340677854-YBS9Y6HFVPF21IJ7HOUJ/ABA+Episode+046+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Turn The Lights On - EPISODE 046: TURN THE LIGHTS ON It's never been easier to get feedback on the work we create, and it's never been harder to avoid it. But is that feedback helping us make work that's authentic and meaningful or can it be a trap that pushes us further away from that same kind of work? Let’s talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-047 monthly 0.5 2020-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1604005080787-OG9BI2QONVG02OHH1S9N/ABA+Episode+047+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - The Monkey Trap - EPISODE 047: THE MONKEY TRAP Two months ago I left social media. The response to my leaving, from friends and those who follow me was varied, but predominantly what I kept hearing was how trapped people feel by social media, mostly by the promise of what being on these platforms can do for us. But are these platforms, on balance, serving us and enriching our creative lives? Are they bringing us the kind of freedom in which we thrive? Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-048 monthly 0.5 2020-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1604006099433-7RGS20DQ3G4RYAV9BE5O/ABA+Episode+048+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - They Aren't Watching - EPISODE 048: THEY AREN’T WATCHING Worried about others watching (and judging us), many of us become self-conscious about how we present ourselves and our art to the world. Understanding that this imaginary audience is, in fact not watching us, but dwelling instead on their own concerns, gives us the freedom to make work that's not only less self-conscious and more authentic, but to be more empathetic and make work with greater impact. What this got to do with those dreams in which we have no pants? Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-049 monthly 0.5 2020-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1605045984745-8AVG5FO8UGNR3TEM3TBN/ABA+Episode+049+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Home, Alone? - EPISODE 049: HOME ALONE? In reaction to something the Chief Economist of the Bank of England said about creative work, and how working from home might be a barrier to that creativity, this episode takes us down a rabbit-hole about how and when we do our best creative work and how that differs for us all, and how–in the end– it's more important that we know how to find flow and create sparks than it is that we know how to find the perfect context in which to work. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-050 monthly 0.5 2020-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1605767575557-UJAUX1ZK6K3LELAME0WT/ABA+Episode+050+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - What's Your Fight? - EPISODE 050: WHAT’S YOUR FIGHT? A friend asked me a question recently that brought me a series of revelations that have pulled me once again, from my funk and my boredom. That question was this: what's your fight? Life is always a bit of a struggle but the specific fight we choose to be part of is what gives us the kind of focus and challenge we most need to get to Flow. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-051 monthly 0.5 2020-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1607726490352-1TTO6JZ0DEEFDCRDGIMZ/ABA+Episode+051+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - No One Needs a Juggler - EPISODE 051: NO ONE NEEDS A JUGGLER When you're selling juggling to the world, as I did for a dozen years, you can't afford to let your marketing slip. It's easy to get lazy with marketing, to believe that "social media" is a two-word marketing plan. But to relegate your marketing efforts mostly to social is to miss out out on a wider gamut of real-world marketing and connection. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-052 monthly 0.5 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1607727302861-1PZEP6FMP3NIDC0XBI5J/ABA+Episode+052+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Plenty in The Fridge - EPISODE 052: PLENTY IN THE FRIDGE Where do you get your ideas? If you're like me, sometimes they appear out of the blue, but most often it's the result of a catalyst bringing together all the half-formed notions and influences floating around in your mind. Consistently the one catalyst that exposes me to new ideas, and makes new possibilities of those I already had (but often didn't know I had) is conversation. One mind being exposed to another mind. So, speaking of conversation, since where we get our ideas is so important to everyday creativity, let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-053 monthly 0.5 2021-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1607728142451-UZ17SYO358PXP3O8B0YQ/ABA+Episode+053+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Over Time - EPISODE 053: OVER TIME There are two narratives competing for the attention of creative people trying to unlock the so-called secret to success. One relies on natural talent, the other on super-natural perseverance. I think the truth–as it so often does–lies somewhere in the messy middle, let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-054 monthly 0.5 2021-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1610265136642-YXEDL116QETL683JVC74/ABA+Episode+054+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Adapting to the Paintbox - EPISODE 054: ADAPTING TO THE PAINTBOX While 'thinking outside the box' is short-hand for 'let's be really creative!' It is thinking inside the box, within our constraints and limitations, that gets our best work started. What do painter Paul Klee and a heavy-metal band called Okilly Dokilly have to do with this? let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-055 monthly 0.5 2021-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1610265741323-X9CJ9P9HLPGSTC3K6G6U/ABA+Episode+055+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Curious, George? - EPISODE 055: CURIOUS, GEORGE? Einstein's brain was stolen, and subsequently studied. What did it reveal about his genius and creativity? Not much. Certainly not as much as Einstein himself did when he said, "I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious." What has curiosity got to do with your creativity and how can it be honed or nurtured? Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-056 monthly 0.5 2021-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1610266583950-E7DFL5D03FGRGLU58NUE/ABA+Episode+056+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - The King is Dead - EPISODE 056: THE KING IS DEAD In 1996 Bill Gates wrote an article entitled Content is King for the Microsoft website. This premise has proven prophetic. And yet no one seemed to stop and ask what kind of King. If content is king at all, it's not a good king and it serves no one but itself. I think we can do better in our art-making. I think the true king, if there is one at all, is connection and engagement and I was thinking maybe we should talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-057 monthly 0.5 2021-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1612591948555-N4VUENP0ETI4B7CQ4NEJ/ABA+Episode+057+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Feed The Right Wolf - EPISODE 057: FEED THE RIGHT WOLF In the old Cherokee story about the two wolves battling within each of us, the one that prevails is the one we feed. But is it that simple? Does one wolf have a distinct advantage that demands we be even more proactive in feeding the other, how do we do that, and exactly when did this become a podcast about wildlife because I thought this was meant to be about my creative life, wasn't it? Let's talk about it https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-058 monthly 0.5 2021-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1612593045201-9AGKGGLR8GTL3HVQKTXT/ABA+Episode+058+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Getting Off The Nail - EPISODE 058: GETTING OFF THE NAIL Only 2 months ago about 190 million Americans made New Year's resolutions in hopes of introducing changes to their lives. Only 8% will accomplish these changes and most of us will have quit the effort by January 08, designated Quitter's Day. This does not mean change is impossible, it means we might not want it badly enough, and are probably going about it the wrong way when we do. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-059 monthly 0.5 2021-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1614120307265-2APT40FCDRJLD9CY2G0S/ABA+Episode+059+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Memento Mori - EPISODE 059: MEMENTO MORI The Roman stoic philosopher, Seneca, in the years before Nero went crazy and ordered the poor guy to off himself, was relentless in reminding those around him that life was short and that far from being morbid, the daily reminder to memento mori, or remember we will die, is an invitation to live that life fully and to make the most of it. And since this is a podcast about making, I thought maybe we should talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-060 monthly 0.5 2021-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1614120924300-J7RHAAZMPA2QEUVDZDM5/ABA+Episode+060+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Dig! - EPISODE 060: DIG! Pablo Picasso was once asked whether he knew, when he started it, what a painting was going to look like when it was finished. "No, of course not," he replied. "If I knew, I wouldn't bother doing it." What Picasso was implying was that the act of painting was the way he discovered what the painting itself would become, that putting his brush to the canvas was an act of exploration before it was ever an act of expression. He was also, I think, implying that the act of exploration was the very reason he painted to begin with. And that should give hope to all of us who are intent on making new things but so often have barely an inkling of what that new thing might look like when we start. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-061 monthly 0.5 2021-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1614121559312-UVSJVYEM3MD4KOE8N6R0/ABA+Episode+061+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - The Play's The Thing - EPISODE 061: THE PLAY’S THE THING Somewhere along the way we decided play and work were necessarily different from each other. Maybe it happened without our noticing it on the way to becoming adults, when play became frivolous and work became serious. But what if the opposite of play is actually boredom, or non-play, and our best work was done playfully? What if play is just Flow? Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-062 monthly 0.5 2021-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1616912740419-0OQZ904PR8VX2K8UWOJ0/ABA+Episode+062+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - The Freedom Of Being Wrong - EPISODE 062: THE FREEDOM OF BEING WRONG Joseph Chilton Pearce said, "to live a creative life we must lose the fear of being wrong." And yet we live in a culture where the need to prove ourselves right has never been more easily satisfied. Many of us spent the formative years of our lives in schools that were built not around learning, discovery, or exploration of new ideas, but remembering the one right answer. Is there freedom to be found in a willingness to be wrong? Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-063 monthly 0.5 2021-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1617384464899-6GRTIN8A4TN4D3EE6M3D/ABA+Episode+063+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - How Do I...? - EPISODE 063: HOW DO I…? The time has never been better to be a self-teacher. Learning how to do new things is as simple as asking Google, YouTube, or the million blogs and articles online. But this will only take you part way. It'll help you understand how others do things, but answering the bigger question is harder: How do YOU do something? It's less important that you learn the way to do something than it is that you discover the way YOU do something. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-064 monthly 0.5 2021-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1617385903475-FNIT2X3Y99MAO7WKODUK/ABA+Episode+064+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - An Audience of One - EPISODE 064: AN AUDIENCE OF ONE When I sent out an email last month talking about the need to be able to identify the audience for our creative work, my own audience raised some questions about the importance of understanding who it is that might choose to experience our work, and the implications that might have on both our art-making and our efforts to put that art into the world. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-065 monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1619110259819-WMGM43NWPFM24HADDMD9/ABA+Episode+065+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - More Than What You Start - EPISODE 065: MORE THAN WHAT YOU START There was a motivational poster in my school that admonished us to "Always finish what you start." It included a photograph of a sprinter about to cross the finish line. It shouldn't surprise you to hear I don't think the creative life is the same thing as the 100m dash, and that there is often great value in starting many things we don't finish, cutting our losses, and being willing to make a U-turn now and then. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-066 monthly 0.5 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1619112734772-1SR3WMUXTNPA6ULRGE5O/ABA+Episode+066+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - When It All Goes Wrong - EPISODE 066: WHEN IT ALL GOES WRONG Life is never a straight line. You never get into comedy, for example, thinking you'll nearly burn down the venue or bleed out on stage (keep listening) so when the unexpected happens you're left with a choice: keep going? Quit? What do you do when it all goes wrong, when you're trying to make something beautiful but the pieces are nothing but ugly? Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-067 monthly 0.5 2021-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1620350324456-496JEPY4IHMVHBI9YDS2/ABA+Episode+067+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - Boxed Sets & Glory Days - EPISODE 067: BOXED SETS & GLORY DAYS If the last episode of A Beautiful Anarchy was about failing to move on from past defeats and choosing not to get stuck there when things inevitably go wrong, then this episode is about the dangers of camping out on past successes, and getting sidelined when everything goes right. There's got to be so much more to the creative life than resting on our laurels and cranking out boxed sets of our past work. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-068 monthly 0.5 2021-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1621059403788-1UWCJ5B1JBVK3IZD68U9/ABA+Episode+068+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - The Pressure to Produce - EPISODE 068: THE PRESSURE TO PRODUCE Paralyzed by the pressure to produce and keep cranking out the work? You're not alone. Creators often feel like they're only as good as their recent work which means you got to keep producing recent work. But people don't respond to your work because you make it frequently. They don't need more from you, they need more of you. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-069 monthly 0.5 2021-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1622608620113-FX71IKOLEZFLNGHNIJQZ/ABA+Episode+069+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - The Ability to Produce - EPISODE 069: THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE If the last episode of A Beautiful Anarchy was about the pressure to produce, this one is the (loving) kick in the pants you might need to stop worrying about it and start doing what it takes to widen the margins. I've got 3 ideas about reducing the pressure of time, expectations, and scarcity of ideas; let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-070 monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1622669442418-NSY6GDGKKJNRI4WH8RJE/ABA+Episode+070+Album+Art+.jpg Podcast - You're Doing It Wrong - EPISODE 070: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG For something so rooted in uncertainty, innovation and the discovery of new things, isn't it strange that creative work seems so often to be subject to voices telling us we're doing it wrong? Could it be that hearing, "you're doing it wrong" is a good sign we're on to something? I think there's a better question than "am I doing this right or wrong?" Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-071 monthly 0.5 2021-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/1624564098892-F5TEU7WR12NPXJGMFYU4/ABA+Episode+071+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - 5127 - EPISODE 071: 5127 Creativity is less the stuff of brilliant ideas and more the reality that those ideas take work to realize, to take a project from (in the words of Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull) suck to un-suck. Unless you're James Dyson, in which case you're trying to do the opposite. It took Dyson 5,127 iterations to get his cyclone vacuum cleaner to work and there's a lesson in there for all of us. 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Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-076 monthly 0.5 2021-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/45494932-21f3-4a2b-87d8-4966e7826711/ABA+Episode+076+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - A Word With Pareto - EPISODE 076: A Word With Pareto 19th-century economist Vilfredo Pareto was out in his garden when he noticed only 20% of his pea plants were producing 80% of the peas. Fast forward to today and the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 Rule is familiar to many in the business world, but what's it got to do with you and your creative life, and is there something more for us in this idea than what is so often reduced to notions of productivity and profitability? Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-077 monthly 0.5 2021-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/70452cf2-7f68-4ede-bbb1-f18854fbaa54/ABA+Episode+077+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - A Different Episode - EPISODE 077: A Different Episode You're different. About the only thing that we all share in common is that we are so very different. So why do we learn so early to blend in and put so much effort into being the same? Carl Jung talks about the society rewarding the diminuation of personality and I think it's the artists role to resist that, to not only be different, unapologetically, but to make a difference. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-078 monthly 0.5 2021-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/3011a51e-cf71-4e35-b20d-7ebe23dfd1c5/ABA+Episode+078+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - For The Introverts - EPISODE 078: FOR THE INTROVERTS Introversion seems to have become a movement lately and as someone with strong life-long introverted characteristics, I think it's great that we're finally celebrating those quieter qualities, but there's also a danger in allowing the label to define and limit us. Jung said introversion and extroversion were about where we got our energy, our fuel; maybe it's time we stopped yakking about which pump we get out gas at, focused more on where we're going with our creativity, and got in the car. Let's talk about it. https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/podcast/episode-079 monthly 0.5 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d519c8baa27110001adbb40/b152fbe6-2ce5-400c-a0eb-9130b2d7e7df/ABA+Episode+079+Album+Art.jpg Podcast - More Than Fun - EPISODE 079: MORE THAN FUN Isn't art-making and creativity meant to be fun? Why is it so often a source of struggle than anything a sane person would call fun? And are the challenges worth it? Or is there something bigger at play here, something more than fun? I have this feeling we create because we must, because it's part of who we are, and that we do it because it's hard. Because that's where flow, transformation, and meaning are to be found, or created. 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