The Reader's Journey

3. David Kadavy: How To Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

Jul 14, 2020

43:53

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Episode notes

What Inspired You to Write Design for Hackers?

03:17

Motivational Judo

04:02

The Fortress Fallacy - You Can't Suck at It

02:17

Introduction

2min

What Inspired You to Write Design for Hackers?

3min

The Art of Self Actualization

3min

You Start to Act Out Like Different Ways

3min

The Ego Is Not Like Outside Force, Is Like Inside Force

3min

How to Use Curiousness to Fuel Your Creativity

5min

You Can't Connect the Dots Looking Forward, but You Could Connect Theds Looking Backwards

4min

The Importance of Giving Yourself Permission to Suck

4min

The Fortress Fallacy - You Can't Suck at It

2min

10.

How to Overcome the Fortress Fallacy and Build a Mansion

5min

11.

How to Get Yourself Reading

2min

12.

Motivational Judo

4min

13.

The Hard to Start by Katowy K.A Diaz

3min

My guest today is David Kadavy, author of The Heart to Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating. David shares lessons on how we can overcome fear, self-doubt, and distractions to stop procrastinating and start working on our creative projects.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:42 About David Kadavy
2:08 Inspiration for writing his book
6:14 How creative projects transform you
8:13 The dangerous of not pursuing your creative project
11:52 How the Ego stops you from pursuing your art
14:04 How to use curiosity to fuel your creativity
20:11 Why you should follow the voice in your head
24:22 Give yourself permission to suck
27:43 How dreaming too big can backfire
31:18 How to use motivational judo
35:06 How to read more books
37:17 How creating art will make you a better person
38:40 Two books that had a huge influence on David

Learn more about the author:

Twitter: @kadavy
Instagram: @kadavy
Website: Kadavy.net

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