The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Hugh Howey has on the surface what might appear to be Cinderella story from the world of self publishing. His best selling series Wool caught the attention of Ridley Scott and has been turned into a screenplay. But as you might expect, there's alot more to this story. Why so few writers follow a traditional pathThe role that our life experiences play in our writingSaying yes to every opportunity to for adventureGaining it back when you've experienced a loss of faithThe importance of having a flexible careerLearning to question what we've been told and taughtWhy living on a boat taught Hugh the value of patienceInside the creative process of writing fictionWhy Hugh doesn't read things similar to what writes aboutThe importance of being committed to a creative craft How 1000 true fans can radically transform your lifeKeeping yourself constantly delighted with little successesWhy everybody has a story about their life Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde Saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling WOOL series. Hugh Howey has on the surface what might appear to be Cinderella story from the world of self publishing. His best selling series Wool caught the attention of Ridley Scott and has been turned into a screenplay. But as you might expect, there's alot more to this story. Why so few writers follow a traditional pathThe role that our life experiences play in our writingSaying yes to every opportunity to for adventureGaining it back when you've experienced a loss of faithThe importance of having a flexible careerLearning to question what we've been told and taughtWhy living on a boat taught Hugh the value of patienceInside the creative process of writing fictionWhy Hugh doesn't read things similar to what writes aboutThe importance of being committed to a creative craft How 1000 true fans can radically transform your lifeKeeping yourself constantly delighted with little successesWhy everybody has a story about their life Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde Saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling WOOL series.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this unmistakable classic we revisit our interview with Julliard faculty member, violinist and performance psychologist, Noa Kageyama. We discuss how to apply principles of peak performance psychology from the world of music to every area of your life.   A Look into the Influences of Suzuki Violin in Noa's LifeWhy You Can Only See Dots Connecting in HindsightThe Reality of What It Takes to Get Good at SomethingWhy So Many Small Ideas Are the Foundation for Big ThingsThe Role That Intense Curiosity Plays in Your SuccessWhy There's an Element of Performance in Everything You DoThe Role That Learning and Practice Plays in Peak PerformanceWhy You Can't Learn Effectively without Taking Action Making Small Adjustments and Tweaks to Get Closer to Your GoalHow the Curse of Instant Results Holds You Back Why You have to Be OK with Being on the JourneyMaking a Mindset Shift to Doing Things for Intrinsic ValueAn Eye-Opening Look at the Master's PathWhy There Is No Final DestinationLooking at the Times in Your Past When You Were Really EngagedWhy You Must Learn to Simplify Very Difficult ConceptsIdentifying and Developing the Key Mental Skills for Peak PerformanceUsing the Past to Act Courageously in the MomentHow Pushing Your Comfort Zone Will Cause You to Exceed Your ExpectationsCultivating a Framework for Accelerating Your ProgressLeveraging the Influences of Others to Create Your Artistic DNADr. Noa Kageyama is a performance psychologist, Juilliard graduate, and is on the faculty of both Juilliard and the New World Symphony. He teaches musicians how to do their best under pressure. He is a wee bit obsessed with computers, technology, and the internet (and all things Apple). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click hereto post it to Twitter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To say that Josh Long is an entrepreneur who keeps himself busy is an understatement. He’s the creator of the to-do list app Cheddar, the podcasting service Simplecast, and oversees sponsorship at the Great Discontent. In this interview he talks to me about the underlying themes and threads of his life’s work and how to identify yours. Josh’s exposure to entrepreneurship at a very early ageWhy entrepreneurship is all about creating valueThe innate entrepreneurial spirit within all of us Why our low points teach us so much about ourselvesLearning to put things in perspective when you’re challengedWhy facing your fears head on is the best way to deal with themLooking at your whole life through the lens of design Finding the things that make you weird to develop your own frameworksThe concept of design as a religion Stripping things down to a core idea Why should build and create things that you wish existed Josh’s role in getting projects and funded for The Great DiscontentWhat separates the risk takers from the ones who play it safeA look at the work that Josh did with Seth GodinThe cathartic drive that comes from pain Leveraging the patterns of successful people you admireThe difference between getting A’s in life Why Josh is only focused on serving 1000 people The role that the story plays in everything you createJosh Long is a designer and writer with a degree in philosophy and three books under his belt: Execute, Jenius, and Design Evolution. He co-hosts the Happy Monday podcast with Sarah Parmenter, is building the to-do app Cheddar, coordinates sponsorships for The Great Discontent, and is the co-founder of Simplecast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Clear’s journey resulted in the intersection of entrepreneurship, health, and creativity. The byproduct of this intersection was an deep study on how habits impact our lives. In this interview we discuss the process of creating identity based habits in order to change our lives. How habits impact entrepreneurship, health, and creativity Lessons from the baseball field that James has applied to his lifeWhy you can design your own options for things in life Post traumatic growth vs post traumatic stress Learning to treat your failures as data points Why mistakes and failures are required for masteryThe importance of changing habits gradually How volume, repetition and routine help us deal with failure Why basics and foundational pieces of mastery truly matterDesigning your environment to reduce activation energyThe myth that you can’t miss a day with a habitJames Clear writes at JamesClear.com, where he shares strategies based on proven research and real-world experiences that make it easier to stick to good habits and live a healthy life  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Mckinlay’s disparate career path has led to working as a Chinese- English translator, playing team blackjack, and eventually a math PHD program at UCLA. The perfect real world scenario to test the the knowledge gained from his math PHD was OkCupid. And using math to hack OkCupid eventually led to meeting the love of his life. A look at an unconventional college experience in ChinaWhy intentional discomfort is instrumental to growth How to deal with the feeling that you don’t fit in The realities of survival in other parts of the worldLearning to reorient your life in order to find meaningLife as a professional blackjack playerUsing a painful experience as a powerful opportunity for growthLearning to see connections and patterns in your work The myths that technology will drastically improve your lifeBalancing the qualitative and quantitative elements of dating Hilarious online dating anecdotes and things to avoid How Chris’ appearance on Wired led to other opportunitiesResources MentionedHow a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find Love Chris Mcinklay has a PhD in Mathematics from UCLA.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meg Worden is a memoir writer and health coach with a scandalous past that led her through the federal prison system for selling ecstasy. In this episode she returns to the show to discuss the process of how we reintegrate after a significant emotional experience. Telling the hard truth and finding peace within our stories Finding the seeker that lies within yourself The common tendency to turn to things that numb or mute painHow trauma allows us to tap into the depth of human understandingLearning integrating the hard truth of your story into a conversation Cultivating the ability to translate sensory input to create your artWhy taking good care of your body is essential to creativity The deep and irrevocable connection between mind and bodyA look at the power of deep intention and curiosity The myth that we reach a place where stop sufferingA look at the process and challenges of coming out of prison The two bubbles that occur after a significant emotional experienceGiving yourself space between a powerful emotional experience and life afterWhy we must turn our life from a grief story to a love story Meg Worden is a dynamic writer, speaker and coach talking to entrepreneurs and influencers all over the world about overcoming stigma, shame, and shifting people’s perceptions of justice, forgiveness — of self and others, redemption, tenacity, and, generally, why humans shouldn’t be defined by transgressions; rather, they should be defined by the grace with which they overcome adversity.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hillary Rubin’s difficult childhood resulted in an incredible work ethic in which she started creating demand for herself at a very early age. Her need to survive gave her what she referred to as a PHD in street smarts. Learning to let go of the imprints that hold us backSaving yourself through forms of self expression Focusing on the individual and connecting with peopleA look at a career path that involved lots of running awayWhy we must learn to forgive our past in order to healPlotting the experiences of your life on a timeline to see patternsLooking at the language patterns that dictate your lifeThe difference between releasing and letting goNot getting caught in the trap of the self help highWhy you must take responsibility for your life Giving yourself space for failure and success Taking ownership and learning to call yourself out Creating a persona an image that could come back to hurt youCore questions that determine whether or not you’re ego drivenDifferentiating between reinvention and evolution Looking at your body of work for the clues that reveal your workSeeing every part of your life as progress Hillary Rubin, spiritual life and career coach, creator of Breakthrough to Coaching Experience and The Art of Becoming a Coach training program, helps women around the world create lasting change to live a more soul-fulfilling life. She’s been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Yoga Journal and The Daily Worth.com and was named one of the top 25 Women Entrepreneurs to Love in 2012 and one of the top 50 Entrepreneurs to follow in 2013 on Twitter by SheOwnsIt.com.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe Loya’s life trajectory of rising up and moving forward took a radically different turn after losing his mother at an an early age, and stabbing his father in the neck at the age of 16. This was beginning of of a life of crime, and 14 month bank robbing spree in which he robbed 30 banks. In this amazing chat about his life, we discuss the amazing power of innovating with your story. The loss of a parent at a very young age Growing up with an abusive fatherHow stabbing his father unleashed Joe’s angerThe power of a story that continually changedHow being robbed caused Joe to ratchet up his gameThe murder of an ex cellmate that changed Joe’s lifeAchieving balance without acting against your consciousnessHow writing starts to reveal the patterns of our lives Why you must start to own your story How Joe became a talking head for crime  The pain of victims that led Joe to working with female writersWhy your story is a fluid thing that you can ownHow we deal with grief and why it’s a part of life Why holding onto grief can be insidious How being trained to look for meaning helped Joe transform A look at what happens in the mind when you rob a bank Why your story is a fluid thing that can change Learning to laugh at the things you take seriouslyOur cultural misperceptions of the people who are prison Joe Loya is an essayist and playwright, as well as a contributing editor with the Pacific News Service. His essays have appeared in several national newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, and El Andar magazine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this Unmistakable Creative Classic, we speak with happiness researcher Shawn Achor about scientifically proven advice for become happier. His work in positive psychology has resulted in discoveries of incredibly simple and effective happiness advice. A look at Shawn’s early work in religion and spiritualityWhy positive brains lead to better outcomesThe opportunity to choose between multiple careersWhy you don’t have the meditate for 7 years to be happyDivorcing yourself from your genetic makeupHow to make changes to your habits by tapping into past successMaking a mindset shift to separate happiness from your environmentWhy we study and learn from positive outliersGoing to back to places when you had less than now but were happyWhy genetics and environment don’t indicate our potentialHow People Experience Post Traumatic GrowthLearning how to become more optimistic and productiveIdeas for spying yourself towards your goalScientifically proven tips for becoming happierWhy small changes have the greatest impact on our livesHow to rock your to do list Putting the concept of activation energy to workWhy vision boards usually don’t work for peopleShawn Achor is the author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage. He is also a positive psychology researcher, speaker and founder of GoodThink, Inc.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2006 Ari Meisel was diagnosed with Crohns disease. Through a combination of yoga, nutrition, natural supplements and rigorous exercise he was able to fight back the symptoms of Crohn’s until he was finally able to suspend my medication. He leveraged self tracking and self exploration to develop an awareness the led breakthroughs in human performance. Starting as an Entrepreneur at the age of 15Why you must learn how to do every job in your businessHow Ari used self tracking and self experimentation to cure CrohnsWhat we can teach our kids about entrepreneurship and creativityThe difference between starting a company and owning your own jobHow the Montessori school system has resulted in top business executivesLessons from world of building and construction that apply to business Why you must always be a sponge of knowledgeHow being “head down” does not make for a better offering to the worldDealing with an illness that has no cure and the mindset requiredThe role that chronic inflammation plays in everybody’s life Why you must learn to check in with yourselfHow taking care of your body transforms the results of your businessWhy we tend to reward good behavior with something badThe external brain and how we can leverage it to be more productiveHow conquering email can lead to significant gains in efficiencyCreating The Manual of You to optimize your day to day workflow Ari Meisel turned a hobby of productivity into a popular framework and consulting service for optimizing, automating and outsourcing of of life’s tasks. Less Doing, More Living continues to grow in popularity and has become a platform for general efficiency consulting to businesses, entrepreneurs and everyone else who could use a little more time in their life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.