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Searching for results.Of high school. Yeah, David, you were talking about reading out loud, and it seems like a big part of your process right now is doing that reading in front of an audience, and it. It sort of feels a little bit like a…
My God, I just need to go unplug and disconnect from that. But I don't feel that with this type of work. Yeah, I spend a lot of time outside. You menti
Writers go back again and again. My old classics teacher used to say that the people who succeed in classics were the people with the highest tolerance for failure. I think the same is true for writers. Madeline Miller…
Chaotic. It's like all the things that have potential, but you're not quite sure what they can become. And then there's the things that you have identified as like this is the canon of the most sacred of sacred objects…
Those connections. I have shower notes, like a waterproof pad in my shower where most... It's such a cliche, but it's true. Most of my ideas either come when I'm in the shower or when I'm walking. I walk every morning…
I'm going to be real with you. But exactly what you're saying, they say that it's so important to have that in order to create, in order to exercise that creative part of your brain. So I hope that we aren't losing it…
Self-serving biases where if we achieve anything, it's because of our hard work and brilliance. If other people achieve anything, it's because they got lucky and we don't factor in enough about the role of luck in our…
Piece of glass, 18-23mm. And he imagined someone holding up a piece of glass and saying, put this in your eye. You go, that's ridiculous. So the concept was to, and there are some other books for precedence, Japanese…
In their head, just like you have a noise in your head, helps us get to the next level. And it will go a long way to building bridges, to people who have been put off by inside talk among crafts. People who don't have a…
Like a moment where you started to think about it? I read some early stories of when you were in school, some mischief about a statue walking to the toilet and some spray paint and so forth, Like happened to me when I…
Eli, this is our 100th episode of It's a huge milestone. It's pretty darn cool. We've been doing this for a bit over seven years now. But when you hit 100 episodes, that feels like pretty significant.
And even if you don't mean it at all, like you still have to do that. And you have to think to yourself, you're good. Part of this meeting is going to be incredibly slow and not relevant to the topic at all. And you…
Nights, unfortunately, or fortunately, who knows. But when you move... houses or jobs, you change your physical environment. And so people take different routes to work. You go to the grocery store differently. (00:3
That for about three years. It's kind of an amazing practice. I started it, actually a good friend of mine who was long ago on the show, a guy named Bob Baxley, he's been keeping a journal for decades and he always…
Go to a lot of these conferences and have lines of people who want to go nose-to-nose selfies with me and shit. We do this special selfie. We go nose tip-to-tip. In the age of COVID, my girl gets a little freaked out…
Curious about how that could be applied more broadly in the world. And in addition to that, at the same time, the web was starting to be birthed and evolve. And I was doing a lot of experimentation with digital…
John Cleese, Rewind: Monty Python's cheerful guide to creativity Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/john-cleese The Ministry of Silly Walks. The Cheese Shop. French Taunting. If you haven’t seen any of these…
Really low stakes process. Low risk, low reward project of being a potter. I ain't going to censor myself. I'm going to engage with the things that I find interesting. And so I think a lot of my stuff does have weird…
About the way they collect ideas. So Roz has a shoebox full of idea germs, which are just little things scribbled on a scrap of paper. And then she also has idea scraps, which are maybe longer things. So maybe talk a…
Of rules came from Esquire. And I always liked the idea of rules because it sounds very formal. but you can have some fun with it to the rules in the book are like end your day on time and another ones don't end your…
Is the public. Now, I think that when you get to a certain level of fame and fortune, you might run the risk of having to deliver on a certain expectation. But really great artists continue to evolve their whole lives…
It. So you've got this book coming out and you have great books that will link people to from your prior work. Are there any books right now that are both exciting to you? They don't have to be within the domain of work…
Legend. I am always kind of banging away at some original projects. So I have one that's like for kids that I keep trying to figure out, you know, like there's story issues that I still need to figure out with it before…
Book and it's gonna have these chapters. And it was all like ridiculous things that we would say when we were growing up, you know, like, you know, I can't remember exactly what some of them were, but it was like, why…
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