The Unfinished Symphony
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We are all living unfinished symphonies. Our lives and our work never actually end. We are always moving on to the next chapter, the next project, the next incompletion. And everything we put our hands to is yet another opportunity to discover who we are. And when we finally discover that, the real work begins. Until then, we’ll just have to keep—
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It’s a Matter of Taste: Part Two
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Developing your taste is a process of trusting yourself and your experience. It’s about learning to live in the moment and knowing that sometimes it never gets better than the first sip. And really, what we’re talking about here is the art of learning to live a little more fully alive.
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It’s a Matter of Taste: Part One
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An artist’s taste is everything. But this takes time and effort to develop. And often, we won’t know what we like until we experience what we don’t like. Maybe taste, then, is more about paying attention than it is about preconceived preferences. This is part one of a two-part conversation.
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How to Finish the First Draft of Anything
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The first step to finishing is to begin. And the secret to getting unstuck is to begin again. We cannot bring anything to completion. That’s not our job.
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The Creative Future of Money
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Join us as we get to the bottom of the future of money, cryptocurrency, and NFTs with our guest expert Ty Ward, founder of Book Coin and wearer of aggressively short shorts.
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The Largeness of a Little Life
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A little life is underrated. When all the glitz and glamor of “success” fade away, all that’s left is the life you choose to live, the one that may be standing right in front of you. Maybe your greatest story is the one that’s already happening.
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Living the Dream
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What do tattoos, dreams, and bulls have in common? Maybe more than you think. Today, we explore this dream-like existence we call life and the creator’s dilemma of making sense of the mystery. This Week's Sponsor: Aura
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Where Does the Money Come From?
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After being able to buy a house he didn’t know he could afford, Jeff muses about money and value and where it all comes from. If currency is merely a concept, then what does that mean for the artist? Maybe we can create the very resources we need to produce our work.
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Creative Idiots
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All art is a little scandalous. It takes that which you treat as precious and sacred and exposes it. A great artist knows how to play the trickster, that devious misfit who stirs things up in a way that changes things for the better.
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Beyond the Brand
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What do you do when the familiar story you’ve been telling the world—about yourself—gets interrupted by reality? You do what no marketer or influencer wants to do. You tell the truth. Ray Edwards shares his story about getting Parkinson’s, how he tried to get healed, and what happened to his identity when what he wanted to become didn’t happen.
info_outlineThe first step to finishing is to begin. And the secret to getting unstuck is to begin again. We cannot bring anything to completion. That’s not our job.