Episode 1: Doubting Process
Creative people start each project hoping to do excellent work. That makes perfect sense; and yet, side by side with that hope and wish, needs to be the deep and real understanding that only a percentage of their output (maybe a large percentage, maybe a modest percentage) will actually turn out to be excellent. This means that they will need to take “the bad with the good” in their creative life.
In the first episode of the “creative obstacles” series, we learn what happens when you don’t allow yourself to take the bad with the good. I hope that you enjoy the show! Do leave I comment—I look forward to hearing from you.
Victoria Wooden said,
October 11, 2007 @ 1:52 pm
Yours is the first podcast I’ve ever listened to and I LOVED it. Very succinct and clear and well written with a nice tie in at the end. BET YOU WROTE A LOT OF BAD APPLES TO GET TO SUCH A POLISHED PLACE! Perfectionism to the point of being creatively blocked is something I have struggled with for years. Thank you so much for reminding me to keep up the attitude JUST DO IT AS BEST YOU CAN NOW AND TAKE THE BAD WITH THE GOOD. Thank you.
Megan said,
October 17, 2007 @ 7:12 pm
Dr. Maisel, your podcasts are informative and brief and I think about them for days after. Please continue to post them.
Jean Goldberg said,
October 21, 2007 @ 11:43 am
Eric,
Your efforts to help overwhelm me! Thank you!!
Demetri said,
October 26, 2007 @ 4:08 am
Eric,
I’m pleased and delighted to have listened and rexperienced a sense of appreciation for the obvious, which is so often elusive and obfuscated by my own denial and avoidance, “doubting” in the creative process.
Thank you for illuminating the darkened shadows. For me, it reveals the life force within that pulsates with hope and potential. I feel more alive and affirmed.
Be well. Demetri
Clif said,
February 20, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
Hi, Eric, just making my way through the podcasts and this one really hit the mark for me. I spent many years as a composer composing NOTHING because of resistance to taking the good with the bad. After embracing that idea on my own with my “Zen Junk” project, I am now in the most prolific phase of my musical career. I look forward to listening to the rest.