The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

#133 Creation Without The Ego - Isabel Unraveled on writing, "the chronic state of performing", detaching your sense of self from the work, finding the inner child, paying attention to your emotions, trusting your intuition and why people should stop pretending

Feb 13, 2023

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Isabel

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Letting Go of My Identity as an Artist

01:32

The level of self-trust we have as a child

01:37

Reflections on Summer Reading and Finding Meaning in Books

02:29

Connecting with like-minded people and exploring a curiosity for writing

01:32

Introduction

2min

The Thrust of My Perceived Worth as a Child

2min

The Hardest Thing in High School

2min

How Did You End Up in Finance?

2min

Internship at a Mentor Capital Firm

2min

I Love This Part of Your Story - I'm in a Chronic State of Performing

2min

Is There a World in Which I Can Be Me in the World?

2min

How I Got Into Writing Online When I Worked at a Venture Capital Firm

2min

The Benefits of Writing Online

2min

10.

Writing Your Thoughts Podcast Conversation

2min

11.

What Is the Most Important Thing About Venture Capital?

2min

12.

Are You Comparing Yourself to Others?

2min

13.

What Drives You to Write a Passage?

2min

14.

How I Found David Pirell on Twitter

2min

15.

Finding Other People That Are Creating and Sharing Ideas

2min

16.

The Writing Course Is a New Thing for Me

2min

17.

I've Been Writing for a Long Time and I'm Not a Writer but I'll Be Writing for Fun

2min

18.

Is There Something Being Channeled Through Me?

2min

19.

Is It Egoic or Self-Absorbent to Not Share Your Thoughts?

2min

20.

I Love That You Share Your Writing

2min

21.

Art Creativity Writing Is My Medium My Medium for Self-Expression

2min

22.

Self-Expression and Self-Intuition

2min

23.

Is Your Art an Extension of You?

2min

24.

Embracing the Cringe

2min

25.

Are You Just Redeveloping All Your Preferences?

2min

26.

The Toxicity of the Toxic Trait

3min

27.

Your Self Trust as a Child

2min

28.

I Love That You're So Fired Up About These Things

2min

29.

The Safe Path Is Risky

2min

30.

Are You Underestimating Rite of Passage?

2min

31.

Anything That Expands Your Worldview

2min

32.

Good Parenting Is About Getting Your Child to Be Their True Self

2min

33.

Writing a Novel Is a New Journey Isn't It?

2min

34.

The Next Step Is to Be in the Present

3min

35.

The Pathless Path Podcast

2min

Isabel is a writer who is very passionate about the creative process. She has some powerful original ideas about the relationship between the artist and their creation, trusting one's intuition, and why people should stop pretending.

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Links:

Twitter: @isabelunraveled
Isabel's Writing: https://mindmine.substack.com

⌛TIMESTAMPS
(0:11) Introduction
(5:41) "The chronic state of performing"
(12:00) Missing and rediscovering her passion for writing
(34:38) Detaching your sense of self from the work
(41:52) The inner child
(53:02) Why people should just stop pretending?
(1:00:30) How Isabel thinks (or doesn't think) about her future?
(1:04:09) Closing remarks

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