The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Jamie Varon, writer and designer joins us to discuss design and writing in a way that gets to the heart f what you want to say. 

HIGHLIGHTS 

• Thinking along the lines of what a professional would do
•  The role of self-motivation in our work 
• The power of teaching yourself
• Overcoming the desire to just be comfortable  
• Recognizing the disconnect between where you are and where you want to be
• How our imprints motivate or demotivate 
• The variables that create the spectrum of human performance 
• How extremely high expectations can actually hold us back 
• The advantage of naivety and not considering the outcome
• How pre-judgements and uncertainty get in our way
• The echo-chamber of life advice on the internet 
• The danger of getting swallowed in approval 
• Why your great work won’t come from following someone else’s rules

QUOTES

I don’t like the feeling that I can’t change where I’m at. 

Either your outrunning something or trying to keep up with something. 

Our culture is very programmed to avoid uncertainty. 

If you’re convicted from a really true place, you can’t get let fear get you. 

It’s a very vulnerable thing to live life on your own terms. 

Write the things you want to read. Not what you think people want to read. 

Books, Resources, and Articles Mentioned

• Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
• This is How We Date Now
• Nobody on the Internet is Living the Life You Think They Are 

Jamie Varon is a writer and designer. He work has been featured  Huffington Post, Complex/NTRSCTN, Medium,Thought Catalog, Teen Vogue, The Liberty Project, and SF Weekly. You can follow her on twitter @jamievaron. 

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Jamie Varon, writer and designer joins us to discuss design and writing in a way that gets to the heart f what you want to say. 

I don’t like the feeling that I can’t change where I’m at. 

Either your outrunning something or trying to keep up with something.  

Our culture is very programmed to avoid uncertainty. 

If you’re convicted from a really true place, you can’t get let fear get you. 

It’s a very vulnerable thing to live life on your own terms. 

Write the things you want to read. Not what you think people want to read. 

Jamie Varon is a writer and designer. He work has been featured  Huffington Post, Complex/NTRSCTN, Medium,Thought Catalog, Teen Vogue, The Liberty Project, and SF Weekly. You can follow her on twitter @jamievaron. 

Jeffrey Veen , design partner at True Ventures, and founder of Typekit joins us to discuss the benefits of living a more curious and creative life. 

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Lessons in design and content creation from the earliest days of the internet 
• Finding the things that are infectious to us 
• Why empathy is one of the most vital skills that we can learn 
• The power of democratizing tools 
• The power of marketing from a place of sharing everything you do 
• The psychology of being an employee, entrepreneur, and investor
•  Why we must develop a level deep self-knowledge
•  The role that higher purpose plays in our work 
• Lessons learned from some Silicon Valley folk heroes

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QUOTES 

It took me many years to get over my education 

One narrative that I’ve throughout out my career is to constant striving to overcome constraint 

People who become really successful have to strive for deep self-knowledge  

When I was honest with myself it had less to do with wealth and more to do with reputation

Jeffrey Veen is a designer partner at True Ventures, where he spend his time helping companies create better products. He does this as an advisor, as well, for companies like about.me, Medium, and WordPress. Previously, he was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the company he co-founded and ran as CEO.

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Jeffrey Veen , design partner at True Ventures, and founder of Typekit joins us to discuss the benefits of living a more curious and creative life. 

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QUOTES 

It took me many years to get over my education 

One narrative that I’ve throughout out my career is to constant striving to overcome constraint 

People who become really successful have to strive for deep self-knowledge  

When I was honest with myself it had less to do with wealth and more to do with reputation

Jeffrey Veen is a designer partner at True Ventures, where he spend his time helping companies create better products. He does this as an advisor, as well, for companies like about.me, Medium, and WordPress. Previously, he was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the company he co-founded and ran as CEO.

Cal Newport, Georgetown professor, and author of of So Good They Can’t Ignore, and Deep Work joins us to talk about how to produce work of real of value while training your ability to focus.

HIGHLIGHTS

• How positive serendipity pays dividends going forward
•  Exposing yourself to positive randomness
• The issues with “follow your passion”
• The role of engagement, craftsmanship
• Why deliberate practice is the byproduct of hard work
• Applying systematic thinking to our work
• The 3 keys to becoming a straight A student
• The increasing value of deep
• Training your capacity for deep work,
• The danger of giving into distraction even when we’re not trying to get work done
• 3 Types of deep work philosophies
• Scheduling time for deep work in your life
• The pitfalls that can cause you to fail at incorporating these practices into your life
• The importance of confident, competent focus on your energy
•  Moving beyond the any benefit mindset

Quotes

Just like a professional athlete is worried about they’re diet, I’m worried about sources of distraction.

If you can replicate something yourself, you can understand it so much better than if you just consumed it.

We put the cart before the horse when it comes passion.

You don’t follow passion, passion follows you.

Both our personal and professional lives are increasingly built around these sources of distraction. From a cognitive perspective, that’s like being an athlete who smokes.

Books and Resources

So Good They Can’t Ignore You

Deep Work

How to Become a Straight-A Student

Cal Newport is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, who specializes in the theory of distributed algorithms. He previously earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 2009 and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004.

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Cal Newport, Georgetown professor, and author of of So Good They Can’t Ignore,  and Deep Work joins us to talk about how to produce work of real of value while training your ability to focus.

Just like a professional athlete is worried about they’re diet, I’m worried about sources of distraction.

If you can replicate something yourself, you can understand it so much better than if you just consumed it.

We put the cart before the horse when it comes passion.

You don’t follow passion, passion follows you.

Both our personal and professional lives are increasingly built around these sources of distraction. From a cognitive perspective, that’s like being an athlete who smokes.

So Good They Can’t Ignore You

Deep Work

How to Become a Straight-A Student

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Cal Newport is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, who specializes in the theory of distributed algorithms. He previously earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 2009 and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004.

AJ Leon, founder of the creative agency Misfit Inc, returns to the show to discuss living a life of meaning, intention and purpose.

• Why you always have a choice in your life
• Letting go of our need to prove people wrong
• Evacuating a life plan that had gone horribly wrong
• Why you should never stop asking for what you want
• Understanding the difference between courage and defiance
• The difference between starting a company and starting to live deliberately
• Wisdom from AJ’s Cuban Grandmother

I’m not necessarily courageous, but I am defiant.  @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

You always have a choice. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

Sooner or later the person that you want to be will be merge into the person you are. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

If you’re good at what you do, people will want more of it. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

What I’m interested is not success, but significance. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

AJ Leon is the founder of Misft Inc, and the author of The Life and Times of Remarkable Misfit. You can follow him on twitter @aljeon 

AJ Leon, founder of the creative agency Misfit Inc, returns to the show to discuss living a life of meaning, intention and purpose.

• Why you always have a choice in your life
• Letting go of our need to prove people wrong
• Evacuating a life plan that had gone horribly wrong
• Why you should never stop asking for what you want
• Understanding the difference between courage and defiance
• The difference between starting a company and starting to live deliberately
• Wisdom from AJ’s Cuban Grandmother

I’m not necessarily courageous, but I am defiant.  @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

You always have a choice. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

Sooner or later the person that you want to be will be merge into the person you are. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

If you’re good at what you do, people will want more of it. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

What I’m interested is not success, but significance. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

AJ Leon is the founder of Misft Inc, and the author of The Life and Times of Remarkable Misfit. You can follow him on twitter @aljeon 

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AJ Leon, founder of the creative agency Misfit Inc, returns to the show to discuss living a life of meaning, intention and purpose.

I’m not necessarily courageous, but I am defiant.  @ajleon via @unmistakableCR http://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

You always have a choice. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR http://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

Sooner or later the person that you want to be will be merge into the person you are. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR http://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

If you’re good at what you do, people will want more of it. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR http://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

What I’m interested is not success, but significance. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR http://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

AJ Leon is the founder of Misft Inc, and the author of The Life and Times of Remarkable Misfit. You can follow him on twitter @aljeon 

Phillip Mckernan returns to the show to discuss how to make 2016 the most prosperous year of our lives.

• Why happiness is the byproduct of meaning 
• Letting go of our attachments to create space
• Leveraging a wakeup call to become more of who we are 
• The danger of giving too much of your identity to external outcomes
• How to resist the temptation to dilute your truth 
• Developing the courage to stay true to your message
• The relationship between self-worth and prosperity 
• The biggest questions we have to ask

My belief is we don’t have to build an empire to fulfill a dream  

What we do isn’t who we are. What we do should be an expression of who we are

We give ourselves what we think we deserve

I don’t go looking for accolades and awards to validate to who I am. 

Anyone who thinks they don’t have an ego is lying to themselves and to the world.

Criticism doesn’t always come from the words that are said. Sometimes it comes from the words that are not said. 

Philip speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. He has shared stages with some well-known speakers…Steven Covey, Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama to name a few.  Through live personal leadership experiences, he has worked with all sorts of people from housewives to Olympic athletes, TV personalities and entrepreneurs, people who’ve gone bankrupt to billionaires and everything in between, and he’s uncovered that people’s dysfunctional relationship to money and their inability to get in touch with their own deep intuition inhibits their ability to gain the authentic clarity they need to live an authentic, and meaningful life.

Phillip Mckernan returns to the show to discuss how to make 2016 the most prosperous year of our lives.

• Why happiness is the byproduct of meaning 
• Letting go of our attachments to create space
• Leveraging a wakeup call to become more of who we are 
• The danger of giving too much of your identity to external outcomes
• How to resist the temptation to dilute your truth 
• Developing the courage to stay true to your message
• The relationship between self-worth and prosperity 
• The biggest questions we have to ask

My belief is we don’t have to build an empire to fulfill a dream  

What we do isn’t who we are. What we do should be an expression of who we are

We give ourselves what we think we deserve

I don’t go looking for accolades and awards to validate to who I am. 

Anyone who thinks they don’t have an ego is lying to themselves and to the world.

Criticism doesn’t always come from the words that are said. Sometimes it comes from the words that are not said. 

Philip speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. He has shared stages with some well-known speakers…Steven Covey, Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama to name a few.  Through live personal leadership experiences, he has worked with all sorts of people from housewives to Olympic athletes, TV personalities and entrepreneurs, people who’ve gone bankrupt to billionaires and everything in between, and he’s uncovered that people’s dysfunctional relationship to money and their inability to get in touch with their own deep intuition inhibits their ability to gain the authentic clarity they need to live an authentic, and meaningful life.

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Phillip Mckernan returns to the show to discuss how to make 2016 the most prosperous year of our lives.

My belief is we don’t have to build an empire to fulfill a dream  

What we do isn’t who we are. What we do should be an expression of who we are

We give ourselves what we think we deserve

I don’t go looking for accolades and awards to validate to who I am. 

Anyone who thinks they don’t have an ego is lying to themselves and to the world.

Criticism doesn’t always come from the words that are said. Sometimes it comes from the words that are not said. 

Philip speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. He has shared stages with some well-known speakers…Steven Covey, Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama to name a few.  Through live personal leadership experiences, he has worked with all sorts of people from housewives to Olympic athletes, TV personalities and entrepreneurs, people who’ve gone bankrupt to billionaires and everything in between, and he’s uncovered that people’s dysfunctional relationship to money and their inability to get in touch with their own deep intuition inhibits their ability to gain the authentic clarity they need to live an authentic, and meaningful life.