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#021: Yancey Strickler — Overcoming Creative Anxiety, The Importance Of Sharing Your Ideas With Others, and How To Create A Better Future with Bentoism
In this episode we speak with writer and co-founder of Kickstarter, Yancey Stricker, about his origins as a writer, tools he’s used to overcome creative anxiety, why it's important to share your ideas early and how he wrote his book: This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World. He explains why the Bento model - rethinking short-term interest - can create a better future for us all.
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SHOWNOTES
- [02:25] Yancey’s early writing career as a music journalist
- [05:29] Leaving his writing career and launching Kickstarter with friends
- [09:09] Writing at Kickstarter and the importance of writing when communicating your vision and communicating to employees and readers
- [12:45] Stepping back from Kickstarter, how he decided on his next project. Plus his ambitions for This Could Be Our Future.
- [17:07] How he overcame creative anxiety and wrote his book, using inspiration from the Beatles
- [22:12] An alternative to optimizing for financial values and how the idea bentoism can help
- [22:44] Apply bentoism to help you make better decisions
- [33:05] Using the Bento model to deconstructing how how Butch in Pulp Fiction makes decisions
- [37:00] How he sits with self-doubt and imposter syndrome while writing
- [41:18] Yancey’s self-talk when he’s feeling anxious, why he shares his ideas to help him and how and why he wants to write authentically.
- [46:41] Yancey’s philosophy and method for building and growing the Bento community around his book
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ABOUT YANCEY
Yancey Strickler is the founder of The Bento Society, the cofounder of Kickstarter, and the cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. His book This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, explores a vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life worth living.
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QUOTES FROM YANCEY:
“Holding ideas is bad. You have got to, you know, even if it's just a close friend, you gotta let ideas feel the oxygen. You have got to try to talk them through”
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RESOURCES
Connect with Yancey:
Twitter: @ystrickler
Instagram: @ystrickler
Other links:
- Kickstarter
- Bento Society
- This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
- Not for Bread Alone: A Business Ethos, a Management Ethic by Kōnosuke Matsushita
- Small Is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher
- Hara hachi bu
- Otter.ai app
- Yancey's interview with Hank Willis Thomas
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit podcast.londonwriterssalon.com
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com
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For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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In this episode we speak with writer and co-founder of Kickstarter, Yancey Stricker, about his origins as a writer, tools he’s used to overcome creative anxiety, why it's important to share your ideas early and how he wrote his book: This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World. He explains why the Bento model - rethinking short-term interest - can create a better future for us all.
*
SHOWNOTES
- [02:25] Yancey’s early writing career as a music journalist
- [05:29] Leaving his writing career and launching Kickstarter with friends
- [09:09] Writing at Kickstarter and the importance of writing when communicating your vision and communicating to employees and readers
- [12:45] Stepping back from Kickstarter, how he decided on his next project. Plus his ambitions for This Could Be Our Future.
- [17:07] How he overcame creative anxiety and wrote his book, using inspiration from the Beatles
- [22:12] An alternative to optimizing for financial values and how the idea bentoism can help
- [22:44] Apply bentoism to help you make better decisions
- [33:05] Using the Bento model to deconstructing how how Butch in Pulp Fiction makes decisions
- [37:00] How he sits with self-doubt and imposter syndrome while writing
- [41:18] Yancey’s self-talk when he’s feeling anxious, why he shares his ideas to help him and how and why he wants to write authentically.
- [46:41] Yancey’s philosophy and method for building and growing the Bento community around his book
*
ABOUT YANCEY
Yancey Strickler is the founder of The Bento Society, the cofounder of Kickstarter, and the cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. His book This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, explores a vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life worth living.
*
QUOTES FROM YANCEY:
“Holding ideas is bad. You have got to, you know, even if it's just a close friend, you gotta let ideas feel the oxygen. You have got to try to talk them through”
*
RESOURCES
Connect with Yancey:
Twitter: @ystrickler
Instagram: @ystrickler
Other links:
- Kickstarter
- Bento Society
- This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
- Not for Bread Alone: A Business Ethos, a Management Ethic by Kōnosuke Matsushita
- Small Is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher
- Hara hachi bu
- Otter.ai app
- Yancey's interview with Hank Willis Thomas
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit podcast.londonwriterssalon.com
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com
*
FOLLOW LONDON WRITERS’ SALON:
Twitter: twitter.com/WritersSalon
Instagram: instagram.com/londonwriterssalon
Facebook: facebook.com/LondonWritersSalon
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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FOLLOW LONDON WRITERS’ SALON
Twitter: twitter.com/WritersSalon
Instagram: instagram.com/londonwriterssalon
Facebook: facebook.com/LondonWritersSalon
If you’re enjoying this show, please rate and review this show!
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