Gifted Underachievers

The Gifted Achievers have stepped in it now. The GU newsroom is reporting that the Academy is suing the Gifted Underachievers for $1B. This comes just weeks after Pat and James (mostly Pat) fired the GU legal team.

The lawsuit is shutting down the GU Below the Line Crew Bee Oscars.

More to come in future updates.

Question for Listeners:

* How much sillier can this get?

[Answer: a lot]

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The vast majority of schools are structured to recognize, validate and reward people who thrive with a certain way of learning.

As most gifted underachievers have discovered, being good at school does not mean you will ace life and career. Conversely, not being good at school doesn’t mean you will fail.

Many of us get more from experiences outside that structure. Although we might not do well initially, we can thrive when given the space to do our best work.

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Does our definition of Gifted Underachievers describe or resonate with you?

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If you’re like us, you’re doing more than your own creative work to keep the lights on at home. Here in the Gifted Underachiever Clubhouse, we provide services to other creative folk who seek professional help in making their work the best it can be.

Experience has taught us that a few skills come in very handy in building sustainable creative-adjacent careers across artistic disciplines. What are they? Have a listen and find out.

Questions for Listeners:

* Do you provide any services to other creative folk?

* If yes, what are some of the core skills you’ve found useful?

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A cogent case for three key skills: organization & time management, client acquisition, and perseverence

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It’s our 100th Episode, and to celebrate this momentous achievement we are letting go of someone very dear to our hearts: novelist John Irving.

Join us live as we release John back into the wild at an undisclosed location in the dead of night. And set your alerts for news of his reappearance in his very own adopted home town of Toronto, Canada!

Question for Listeners:

Do you think John will make it home?

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James is stuck. Pat has an idea: Try setting some constraints in your process or actual creative work to release creative flow. The key areas to place constraints, Pat explains, are time, form, and materials. Beyond that, the Gifted Underachievers discuss how to force decision making while diving deeper into a creative flow.

Questions for Listeners:

* What constraints might work for you?

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It takes a village to make a movie, even a bad movie. But not everyone in that village gets the recognition they deserve. These are the people who comprise what is known as the Below the Line crew. IN this segment, the Gifted Underachievers pick up the Academy Awards’ slack.

Questions for Listeners:

* Aren’t we all as gifted underachievers below the line crew?

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Further to last week’s difficulties with finding the clock, the Gifted Underachievers are puzzled about what British folk mean when they invite you for a meal at “7 for 7:30.”

Spoiler: It means about what you’d expect.

Questions for Listeners:

* What do you think about sitting down to dinner half an hour after you arrive at someone’s house?

* If the invitation said “7 for 8,” would you still go?

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Other aspects of British social etiquette: wait your turn, say please and thank you, don’t rush the tube until everyone’s off, wait until all the guests are there before you start eating, and don’t clear the plates until everyone’s done.

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Throughout his life, James has driven past the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference campus in Ripton, Vermont, hundreds of times if not a thousand. Often, he speeds by as the writers’ conference is happening knowing he’d been rejected once more.

That he has this connection to the campus is galling. But there are lessons to be learned from each failure and a discussion of why Bread Loaf and similar creative conferences and/or residencies matter.

Question for Listeners:

How do you get over a gutting rejection?

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James salutes Bread Loaf:

https://www.middlebury.edu/writers-conferences/writers-conference

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The clock (aka the timer) is handy for a couple of loquacious idiots like the Gifted Underachievers. But where is the damn thing?!

Questions for Listeners:

No questions today, we’re too busy looking for the other thing.

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Apparently, there are four types of Gifted Underachievers:

https://giftedchallenges.blogspot.com/2016/02/who-is-gifted-underachiever-four-types.html

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In this segment, the Gifted Underachievers talk about one of the great benefits of being an artist in any field: making art forces you to pay attention, and attention to the real world gives you experiences you won’t have if you’re doomscrolling in the coffee shop.

We talk about essayist and humorist David Sedaris, street photographer and poet Rodney DeCroo, and how to strengthen your “noticing” muscle into a useful part of your artistic process.

Questions for Listeners:

Do you know the name of that app for meeting people at bus stops?

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Night Moves: The Photography of Rodney DeCroo

https://www.anvilpress.com/books/night-moves-the-photography-of-rodney-decroo

Theory of Mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

David Sedaris interview:

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