Unlimited Creativity — Transcript

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1. 0:00This is the best creative advice I ever
2. 0:01received. Don't let your ego make you
3. 0:04think you're the only one with your
4. 0:06interests. That's important if you want
5. 0:08to be a sincere creator. You're not so
6. 0:10removed from humanity that no one else
7. 0:12likes what you like. Sorry, but you're
8. 0:15in the soup with the rest of us. When we
9. 0:17think of the best, we usually think of
10. 0:18successful media, but most successful
11. 0:21media is better at being palatable than
12. 0:23being the best at something, which I
13. 0:25only bring up because you don't have to
14. 0:26compete with that, which is good because
15. 0:28the ones chasing that have way more
16. 0:30resources than you. You could also try
17. 0:32to be the best at something specific,
18. 0:34but your rivals are the 117 billion
19. 0:36people that ever existed, and 7% of them
20. 0:38are still here. You don't need to bring
21. 0:41competition into any of this because
22. 0:43you're already the best at your own
23. 0:45voice.
24. 0:46And that is whatever you want to pursue
25. 0:48or what you would enjoy, even if it is
26. 0:51undeveloped and feels unknown to you.
27. 0:53You don't need talent, a muse, a role
28. 0:55model, inspiration, validation, or an
29. 0:58audience. You might find them along the
30. 0:59way, but they're never required because
31. 1:02you don't need anything outside of
32. 1:03yourself. You and your internal self are
33. 1:06enough. And if you make stuff that is
34. 1:08not perfect, that's also good. First of
35. 1:11all, every idea is compromised when you
36. 1:12pull into reality. And second of all,
37. 1:14buddy, you're an imperfect being, so you
38. 1:16don't even know what perfect is. And if
39. 1:19you thought what you made was perfect,
40. 1:21you're done. Your taste is so low that
41. 1:23you have no idea where to go next. End
42. 1:25of the journey as far as you're
43. 1:26concerned. Again, I'll let the people
44. 1:28with resources chase that dragon.
45. 1:31So, love what you make, warts and all,
46. 1:32because as your taste improves, you will
47. 1:34see more flaws in your work anyway. That
48. 1:36is the strength of keeping projects
49. 1:38small because everything you make gives
50. 1:39you ideas of new things to make. That is
51. 1:42the infinite glitch of finding ideas.
52. 1:45And if what you make ends up being so
53. 1:46unpleasant to you, you may have just
54. 1:48found a direction you don't want to go
55. 1:50in. It's not that it's a mountain you
56. 1:51can't overcome, it's just when it comes
57. 1:53to feelings, vibes, ideology, mediums,
58. 1:56and spectrums I'm blind to, there is an
59. 1:59infinite amount of mountains out there.
60. 2:01Most undiscovered. And buddy, you're a
61. 2:03finite being. So when you treat
62. 2:05creativity as an act of conscious
63. 2:07exploration instead of refinement, you
64. 2:10keep moving forward.
65. 2:11The more you make, the more paths you
66. 2:13leave unexplored. But the paths you
67. 2:15choose, the path that excites you,
68. 2:17that's your voice. What interests you,
69. 2:20what drives you, what makes you curious.
70. 2:23It doesn't matter how vague the drive is
71. 2:25to begin with. You can start out just
72. 2:27liking a genre, but by getting in there,
73. 2:29making things you discover more. So make
74. 2:32for yourself first.
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76. 2:33>> Be your own target demographic and you
77. 2:35will have unlimited stamina.
78. 2:37>> [music]
79. 2:38>> And what you make will be far more
80. 2:40interesting to everyone.
81. 2:43>> [music]
82. 2:43>> Thanks for exploring with me.
83. 2:45See you out there.
84. 2:47>> [music]
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