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Creatively Complicated: Boxing in Creativity
Geopats: conversations with expats
English - July 05, 2019 18:30 - 37 minutes - 26 MBLanguage Learning Education Society & Culture Places & Travel expat geopat live abroad go abroad live overseas Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Swedish cheese, Chinese fiction and letting go dance a pretty mean tango in this episode. Yes, most tangos are done with only two people but this two person tango idea you just had is exactly the kind of boxing in that we are addressing in this conversation. A flashback to the book “Shanghai Baby” starts off our rant about the tolerance people have of boxing in creativity and creative people.
On the positive side of this box, Summer got a wave of letting go of a project relief after seeing her Swedish cheese article in print. Conversely, Steph is still grieving over the death of the original project that was the basis for her Virtual Expats podcast nearly a year after that segment was discontinued. How do we know when to let go of a project?
Does stopping before reaching whatever we originally thought was the project goal make any of these efforts a complete loss? Why don’t we have a word like “sunk cost” for creative project’ss changing and often temperamental lifespan?
Rabbit Holes:
-Blogging Breakthroughs with Faith Mariah (Podcast):
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/blogging-breakthroughs-with-faith-mariah-oZ_h49SlgJG/
-Kolache (food): https://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/kolache/
Creative terminology/ideas to emerge from this episode:
-podhole: a podcast listening rabbit hole
-creative self pressure
-creatively constipated: not able to get the creativity out
Links
-Shanghai Baby by Zhou Weihui (book)
-Summer’s cheese article in Culture Magazine, “Discovering Cheese and Tradition in the Swedish North”
-Stockholm Cheese Festival; https://eatsomethinggosomewhere.com/blog/swedish-cheese-festival
- sunk cost; https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sunkcost.asp
QUOTES:
“When we start something we don’t necessarily know where it’s going or how long it’s going to take to get there.” -Summer
“Creating goals is not the bad thing, making ourselves stick to all of them is probably where th
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