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On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift off.

Sometimes you just need a creative PEPTah.

You've heard this idea that insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.

But I would say it's equally true that getting the same results, no matter what different things you try, is just as destabilizing.

But that's life, right? Just the same old crap day after day after day on a loop.

Right? If there's one thing that I really didn't want to be

when I grew up it was cynical I remember seeing cynical jaded people cynical jaded artists

from when I was a teenager to my 20s and seeing them and just thinking,

that will not be me. And I thought, because I've always been kind of a fun-loving, silly human,

that it would be impossible that that's who I would become. Like, I honestly never thought that was even possible to be in the cards for me.

Unfortunately, this is an instance where reality has eclipsed my imagination in a way that I never

could have believed because it's really, really hard. Listen, kids, it's hard to not become

cynical and jaded, but it's still a life mission for me. And I want to share something that has

helped me tap into my optimism again as a human and as an artist. Because here's the thing,

when you experience the same crap over and over again, it starts to wear you down.

Watching the news, seeing the world, repeat what feels like rerun after rerun, watching,

you don't even have to look to the world, watching your own life and seeing yourself

struggle with the same stupid patterns over and over again on repeat is enough to break you

down. An episode of burnout after another episode

of burnout, after another episode of burnout, after another episode of burnout and procrastination

and not following through and being laid on something like whatever it is, letting your

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