Make Art Not Content

Creatives That Aren't Creative

Feb 28, 2021
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ANECDOTE

Friend's Voice Memo Sparked The Episode

  • Speaker 0 shares that their friend Steph sent a voice memo after trying to start a podcast for years.
  • That memo felt like a sign and prompted the episode's theme of transformation.
INSIGHT

Creativity Is Asking The Big Impossible Questions

  • The host read a seventies self-help book that captures how top creative minds operate.
  • Creativity asks how to make the impossible exist, a question many who call themselves creatives don't ask.
INSIGHT

Creators Versus Skilled Imitators

  • True creatives are compared to magicians and alchemists who invent novel things from raw materials.
  • The episode distinguishes these inventors from high-skill imitators who reproduce or package existing ideas.
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