Be Prepared to Lose Everything.
To survive and thrive you need to have the conviction to create things your are proud of with people you love and in a way that allows you to have a meaningful life however you determine that. Anything more than that is not just “bonus,” it can actually lead to your undoing. I don’t mean financial ruin, I mean that you may loose that independence a
... See morePrediction: the furious arrival of AI will create a renewed hunger for raw, unpolished, humanity. Invest in documenting your failures. Fact: we live in a time where if you create consistently about something you love or obsess over; it may be a year, or five, but eventually, you'll find a level of success that'll likely make you feel uncomfortable. This is good. And some of the best art you'll ever create will be from your spectacular failures. For example, my most popular podcast episode--What is Trauma--was the result of me realizing and admitting that I had been wrong about 'how to heal the psyche' for the previous 10 years. I thought you could heal through language alone; lol, oh dear little younger Erick! Getting something 'wrong' is literally what stimulates our nervous system to pay attention and attempt to learn something new. Document your process like you're a field biologist studying a wild animal, and share your field notes with us. Despite how sure people pretend to be, we're all trying to figure out just what the duck we are and what the duck we're all doing. Like...are we all contributing to the creation of a new god-like life-form everyday without realizing it because we check our phones 230 times a day, and our phone tracks every tap, pause, eye movement, and sound we make, and all of that will be data for the emerging godlike intelligence? Are we training it right now? Anyways, idk, but, share your notes.
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We start raw, then our hearts and minds get boiled by constraints, pressure, feedback, and challenges. How do we keep our head up and maintain our creat... See more
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another opportunity to remember what we’re playing for, instead of fixating on what we’re trying to protect. It’s an opportunity to embrace the messiness of the creative process and get over ourselves. When we understand what the process is like, we can make a choice. Am I going to play defense my entire life so that I can protect my comfort and se
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In those moments the practical concerns that consumed you during the creative process fall away. Instead we retrace the emotions. The elations of discovery. The moments of doubt. The day things turned... See more