Hello and welcome to today's episode.
I'm your host, Joy Pereira, and I'm so pleased to be bringing you the very best ideas and interviews in this podcast, Nerds of Joy, to broker and grow your digital strategy, amplify your business, and broadcast yourself with less fear, to create real life opportunities for greater success, and intentionally design the life that you deserve.
It's long overdue, right?So sit back, listen curiously, and enjoy the show. So I've been mulling over the idea of relaunching Nerds of Joy as Season 10 and have some new and incredible guests as well as incorporating video in the mix.
I have a plan, but I've also made things a little bit more difficult for myself as I have recently received a puppy and he is a delight.
What I had not realised is that puppies are part piranha and it's really quite difficult to record when there is a commotion in the background.
So like a new mum, I've found myself working through the quiet moments of sleep, giving him all my focus in the waking hours and I know a lot of you listening to this can relate.
It becomes a life of making priorities and something my dad used to speak of as I was a teen.I think it takes time to really understand and lean into your priorities.
They are sometimes not joyous, a grind, but something that must happen, whatever your circumstance.
So rather than lecture about the virtues of prioritization, I want to talk to you about creativity and how to make that a priority in your work, life, and business.
It's something that has always flowed through my veins and I do believe it's part of the blood chemistry of your system.However, some may experience blockages and there are many things to enact to be able to make that flow more consistent.
Do not be a tortured artist and suffer for your art.Far too many of us fell for that one, doing creative arts and seeing characters in popular movies. having to make a decision about being creative or toe the line.
A wise friend of mine, who is a multi-talented artist, said to me in a previous episode, don't listen to your parents.And she was very right.Some of you might have had the creativity beaten or shamed out of you.
I'm thinking about the character in Dead Poets Society and the many others I know that are still terrified to claim art or creativity or creative as their own.
I too had to make a pitch as to what I would be doing after my three years creative arts degree at university to my parents. It helped that I auditioned and got into uni before finishing my final year of high school.
But nonetheless, to claim your creative worth takes a sure-footedness that can only come from doing parts bit by bit and knowing that it will all work out in the end.
It's a modality, a training, a skill cultivated over time that strengthens with great mentors and tutors.
You literally have to throw paint at the wall, or pen a song, or learn an instrument, or write that thing, or feel the rhythm, or tap it out, or sit inside yourself and truly feel to be creative, and harness the very best to serve your work.
Perhaps that's why you hear the artists that go mad, or cut off their ears, or descend into madness.But being creative does not have to be those things.
It could be as simple as arranging your flowers, as to how you like it, or decorating a cake, how you froth a cappuccino, or cut a hedge to your liking.
Perhaps you make things novel for others, or share stories, or organize fun dates and activities for your group of friends.The more I write this script for you, the more it flows, and I realize that I've done all these things
but I won't give up my sanity for the work, as some may have done previously.I don't think it's a case of all or nothing.We can set limits and boundaries as to our creativity and be very disciplined in our approach.
David Bowie spoke about getting to a place where you're barely touching the bottom, and that's where the magic happens.We can read books such as Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Or Rick Rubin, the American record producer and writer of the creative act, A Way of Being.Or we could write morning pages by reading The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron to feel inspired.
But as you know, there comes a time when you just have to take action.You can't be Taylor Swift without sitting down and working out the lyrics and chords.
What fills her music, her life, thoughts, feelings, and the physicality of playing the instrument I've spent time thinking about creativity and how we're being harnessed to provide for machines.
All our creative work scraped by large language models and I believe unethical tech players.As much as the bros can tell me that it's good to be in the metaverse or build other worlds or fly to the moon,
I know that being present in my body, tapping the things or creativity that is inherently in me and treading gently on this planet is what makes great art.
Let the bros come and soak up the billions of funding creating products that don't really serve the greater world or address the big issues. As a true creative, I don't see how anyone can fall for this hype, but here we are.
I really do believe that people that are not out to make billions, the ones with true creativity, will lead the movement of humans rejecting the unethical ways entertainment is being trashed for cash.
I think once the novelty of seeing yourself as your favourite superhero in a feature film, wears off, it'll become pedestrian and cringe.
Whilst the bros ride on the crest of the AI wave and monetize off the backs of all humanity, it will be humanity that pushes back to close the door. May this time we're living in right now not squash your creativity.
I'll be questioning the path for my creative kids as well.What jobs will be available for them in the future?Will they be able to sustain life as artists?
Or will their inherent talent and dedication to craft be even acknowledged and remunerated when a machine can spit out similar pictures in a heartbeat?Will their songwriting be never heard due to the algorithm?
And will they get anything because of the way the platforms are set up? Never give up on your creativity.I think it takes a special someone to value creativity that can imbue it in all their works.
To creatively curate your life is something we all have capability to do.
May this episode offer you hope to be more brave, to show your stuff, to develop your talents, to take the risk and pick up the phone, to launch that thing or give it a red hot go.You deserve the very best. To live with excitement and anticipation.
To feel a sense of optimism and happiness.To have the belief that many things are possible for you and that every step you take is an action in the chain of events that could bring you great opportunity or new possibility.Choose creativity.
Choose to create.Choose to curate your life.See you next time. If you like what you've heard then please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or subscribe.
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I love producing this podcast, and I really want you to have the digital gains you deserve.
I'll be bringing you more of the very best conversations and stories to exchange ideas, nail your time, and hit your goals for optimal results in your work, life, and business.It is within you.Don't just sit there.Be curious.Curate your life.
