550 - Get Back to Your Creative Path with These 3 Counterintuitive Things

About this episode

In this episode, Andy J. Pizza discusses three counterintuitive strategies to help listeners reconnect with their creative paths.

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Listen to this if: 1 - You feel creatively off or can’t find your creative thread at the moment 2 - You’re in a season where you’re not making as much as you want to be 3 - You feel in a low place creatively and need to remember why you care about creating 4 - You feel ill from so much doomscrolling and consuming short form video! SHOW NOTES: Cal Newport’s Podcasthttps://calnewport.com/podcasts/ Simon Critchley - On Mysticismhttps://www.nyrb.com/products/mysticism Angus Fletcher - Wonderworkshttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wonderworks/Angus-Fletcher/9781982135980 Lizzy McAlpine - Drunk, Runninghttps://youtu.be/Xa8iMI0yRVY?si=De3Uia0x0VkHL-mM Wolf Childrenhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140203/ Wolf Children Soundtrackhttps://open.spotify.com/album/3vZyva1XWxRbf0wq4MsU8q Piranesi by Susanna Clarkehttps://www.bloomsbury.com/us/piranesi-9781635575637/ Producer / Editor: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.comSpotify Playlist of WHY? Songs Used on…

People in this episode

Host: Andy J. Pizza

Topics covered

• creativity
• self-improvement
• mental health
• artistic process
• overcoming creative blocks

Keywords

• creativity
• creative blocks
• self-care
• doomscrolling
• artistic inspiration

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Mysterious Things, Wonderworks, Piranesi, Wolf Children, Drunk, Running

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