It is always helpful to get a glimpse at Grey's creative skill tree. His explanation of weaknesses and handling them as your skills develop hit home for me. Thanks for making this podcast, you have made the act of working more enjoyable and understandable in my young adult life.
6:12 this conversation reminds me of a post I saw years ago that said “stop waiting for the things you make to not seem like you made them.” Which dovetailed really well into how Hank Green talks about making things. In one of his productivity videos he said other people don’t know the thing you’ve made as intimately as you do. They see what it is, not all the myriad things it could’ve been. I also really like his 80% rule, it got me through college and grad school without being consumed by perfectionism.
My sister, who has created her own company designing exhibitions for musea, once said to me "Most artist know art and some artists know their art exceptionally well, but few I come across know how to sell themselves and their art well enough to create a business with it."
Loved the noodle animated video. Totally agree with Grey on the use of Chat GPT, it's almost unnerving with how bland its responses are, yet I still use it.
Grant Achatz, one of my favourite world class chefs... Lost his sense of taste to tongue cancer...he imagines the taste of food then strives to make it reality....
I know right? Beethoven kept writing music after deafness. I, an artist losing vision, probably won’t ~ but the possibility exists! I’m glad you had a chef example ❤ ty
I 100% know the feeling of "I dreamed a great idea but there's no details". But sometimes I'll have the same dream the next night - with more detail. And more detail still the night after. The tricky part is it doesn't work if I think about / write down the idea when I'm awake. When I wake up each day I have to decide whether to cash out what I have and write it down before the details fade, or let it ride and gamble that I'll have the dream again.
I loved this episode. I really like listening to Grey and Myke talk about things related to their work process, especially the creative stuff. Product stuff in relation to Apple (not product design) isn't as interesting to me because I'm a firm PC Windows user and I use Samsung for the rest of my stuff so it's nice to have some variation.
The Bear depicts everyone having a terrible time under their economic circumstances, but it also says they need it to do valuable work and they kind of love it. It glorifies the stress, the precarity, the needless obsession that drives some insane. It is a very good show, but it wants to disavow the bully headchefs position, but by the end of season 3 it is basically all but agreeing with him.
You're a bit off on the premise. The main character of The Bear comes back to Chicago because his brother dies and leaves him his sandwich shop, and the main character tries to make better.
