Do I Follow My Bliss, or Do I Become Practical?

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I don't want to put you in the seat of, you know, giving life coach advice or relize. But having said that, and you yourself have written about how you had to float your interest in the arts by kind of being the futurist. Wasn't necessary your conqua passion. Where would you coach somebody going that wanted to enter the creatives now, but had the concern about financials? Well, i see this all the time, ollevin. My sons there, there they the i've got sons, nephews. They all have the same question is, do i follow my bliss, or do do i become practical? Do i try to maximize

Ted Gioia is a leading music historian and author of 11 books including “The History of Jazz” and “Music: A Subversive History”. He combines his cultural expertise with an extensive business background as a strategy consultant and Stanford MBA.

He also writes an incredibly insightful Substack: https://tedgioia.substack.com/

You can find him on Twitter: @TedGioia

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro + Ted’s Background
(00:03:16) - Why Culture Is Looking Backwards
(00:09:08) - Financialization Of Entertainment
(00:11:52) - Music And The Lindy Effect
(00:16:12) - How To Foster A Counterculture
(00:20:01) - Why Music Innovation Comes From Outsiders
(00:25:58) - How Music Changes Your Body Chemistry
(00:34:47) - The Downside Of The “Four Chords” Pop Music Formula
(00:40:32) - How To Do Compounding Work
(00:45:55) - How To Pursue A Creative Career
(00:49:40) - Ted’s Thoughts On Rene Girard
(00:55:22) - Rene Girard And Rock Music
(01:02:35) - Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley

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