502 - How to Beat the Analysis Paralysis of "The Right Path"

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter here: andyjpizza.substack.com If you THINK more about making stuff than actually making stuff, this episode is for you! I tell a story that helped me realize that going the right way is overrated and what to do instead. SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com War of Art by Stephen Pressfield https://stevenpressfield.com/books/the-war-of-art/ Cal Newport Deep Work https://calnewport.com/writing/ Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey https://mwp.com/product/writers-journey-25th-anniversary-edition-mythic-structure-writers/ Brian McDonald Invisible Ink https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/invisible-ink-stewart-stern/1146054340 SPONSORS: SQUARESPACE Head to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's
0:01.0	On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift off.
0:10.9	Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:20.6	There's this clip of David Bowie, one of many of him kind of pontificating eloquently about what it means to be a creative person and the struggle of that and the aspirations of that.
0:35.6	And in this clip, he's talking about how it's really
0:39.1	important never to forget that you got into making stuff initially because you just felt
0:47.2	like you had potential. You have this feeling that there's something in you that you can,
0:56.4	if you try and you work it out,
0:59.0	you're going to be able to somehow download this stuff out into the world.
1:07.3	And there's just this sense, just this urge that there's something for you to put out there.
1:15.9	And I totally recognize that.
1:18.1	And it's easy to forget that.
1:19.8	But I thought back to like when I was even young, starting to think about having a creative
1:26.9	practice, having a creative practice,
1:28.0	having a body of work that I thought that if I played my cards right,
1:33.4	if I navigated the creative journey properly,
1:36.3	I should get closer and closer to kind of manifesting
1:40.6	whatever is on the inside,
1:42.6	downloading it out into the world,
1:46.0	and that I knew it wasn't going to be straightforward.
1:48.3	I knew it wasn't going to be easy,
1:49.6	but if I was taking the steps, if I was doing the work,
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