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Keep the Flow episodes
- Quitting: Is It Really the Solution We're Looking For?
Short but sweet. This was a quick 'n' dirty recording I did while visiting in Virginia.
We get into the idea of quitting a creative outlet. I tell the story of my brush with quitting, how I found my way back and ultimately how we, as creatives, need to figure out a way to function in this world that allows us to survive financially and thrive creatively.
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8 min - Boredom: The Kale of Creativity
Bored? Good. This week on Keep the Flow we look at 3 ways we can leverage boredom to unleash our imagination, curiosity and hone our problem solving skills. Let's all get bored!
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Books mentioned:
Sacred Rest by Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD
Podcasts mentioned:
Mel Robbins Podcast with Dr. K
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23 min - 5 Ways to Untether Your Ego from Your Creativity
If you ever feel like your self-worth is tied to your creative successes and failures, this episode is for you.
This week we explore the creative's ego, process vs. results, fixed vs. growth mindset and 5 ways to hop off the Ego-Coaster.™
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Books mentioned:
Creative Confidence by David and Tom Kelley
Mindset by Carol Dweck
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19 min - Why Do We Even Bother?
It can be easy to misplace your priorities and forget why we're even putting the time and energy into this whole creativity thing at all.
This week on Keep the Flow, I get into the big WHY behind all of our efforts and struggles. Do we need to create? Is necessity really the mother of invention and if so, should we not be asking invention - who's your daddy?
Examples from Charles and Ray Eames as well as my own work show us what some of the motivations are for all our efforts.
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22 min - Can We Choose Our Thoughts as Creatives?
This week on Keep the Flow, we get into the idea of being able to choose our thoughts as creative people.
Ideas are a kind of thought, so to get good at dealing with our ideas we have to get good at dealing with our thoughts. We look at the relationship between cognitive flexibility and brain plasticity and what impact our environment has on our mental bandwidth.
Put your thinking caps on.
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19 min - Balancing Act: Mastering Hard & Soft Skills for Creative Success
This week on Keep the Flow we get into the balancing act of hard skills vs. soft skills: knowing how to do a thing vs. knowing why we do the thing.
There are many ways to look at this equation as applied to creativity. Let's traverse the rabbit-hole together, shall we?
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16 min - 4 Ways Repetition Can Be A Powerful Device for Creativity
So boring! But is repetition useful to creatives?
This week we get into how we can harness the power of repetition to make our ideas more impactful, digestible and manufacture expectations... which we can then defy.
(The photo is from inside Harpa in Reykjavik, showing the intricate pattern of Ólafur Elíasson's design.)
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20 min - Who Are We? And How Can We Do Our Own Thing?
In this episode I explore the idea of infusing ourselves into our creative work... and how to figure out who we actually are creatively?
Videos mentioned:
David Carson at Fabrica: https://youtu.be/KugSqW6FDRQ
John Cusak in Say Anything: https://youtu.be/Pvuv2sn5fDQ
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20 min - How to Reclaim Your Creative Mojo
This week I get into the feeling of having lost our mojo. Why this happens. Can we prevent it? And what we can do to get it back.
Trigger warning: Episode mentions slow cooked pork.
Videos mentioned:
BBC - Mondrian with Jason Moran: https://youtu.be/05KLW-xsoxE
Netflix - Abstract with Christof Niemann: https://youtu.be/q_k8fVNzbGU
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18 min - Just Be: Zen and the Art of Creativity
This week I interview pianist, composer, teacher and Zen Buddhist priest, Ástvaldur Zenki Traustason. We talk about his approach to the internal critic, how Zen influences the way he plays and the role of humor in Zen Buddhism.
Ástvaldur's links:
https://www.zen.is/
https://www.zenki.is/
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Books recommended by Ástvaldur:
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Music mentioned:
Sacred Hymns by Keith Jarrett
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49 min
About Keep the Flow
From the publisher's feed
Keep the Flow is the weekly podcast that looks under the hood of the creative process to keep your creative engine humming.
Hosted by Scott McLemore, a drummer and composer living way up…
north in Iceland. He has been involved in various creative pursuits including working in graphic design and writing about creativity. In this podcast he to shares what he has learned along the way.
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