ASLU 121: Diving Down Into Meaning and Resistance in our Creative Work
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This week's episode started out to be our annual recap of our goal progress for 2022. But, we realized, almost immediately, that we had taken a turn and had a creative mindset episode on our hands!
We quickly dove down into exploring the deeper (and sometimes darker) aspects of our creativity and how we work: meaning and resistance.
We discuss how a simple grant application pushed Heather to explore bigger, far more personal themes in her own artwork, ask how it’s possible to resist doing something you absolutely love and explore what’s behind that (there’s always something big behind that!) and talk about the messiness of creativity - the internal messiness of creativity! And as it often does in any mindset episode, social media makes a brief appearance as we talk about what it means to speak up - or stay quiet - when big things happen in the world.
This Episode Is For…
This is a great episode for creatives who:
struggle with resistance when creating their work - even (or especially) when they love what they do
ponder exploring bigger themes in their work
wonder how much of their value system they should share with the world and if it will make an impact.
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what are you resisting?
in this episode we discuss:
diving deeper into the meaning of our work
examining resistance in doing work we love or enjoying activities we love - and the feeling of needing to be “productive”
giving our work space and room to breathe
struggling when things don’t come easily or quickly
accepting that sometimes, to express ourselves they way we want to, we need to grow our skills - and that that is a worthy use of time
the importance of systems in our businesses
embracing the messiness of creativity
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