Tom Cruise on Creativity The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #013 • 5 min. read • 1,069 words Read online Welcome to our new creative rebels this week! Hero, Tammy, Kate, and ljin32, thank you for signing up. ✊ Did you get this email from a friend or discover it through a recommendation in the Creator Network? Subscribe here so you don't miss another dispatch. Hi Reader, There's a riddle in the middle of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. It says: What is always coming but never...
almost 2 years ago • 5 min read
The Myth of One-size-fits-all Creativity The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #012 • 3:30 min. read • 703 words Read online Welcome to 3 new creative rebels this week! Toia, Eman, and Mark, thank you for signing up. ✊ Did you get this email from a friend or discover it through a recommendation in the Creator Network? Subscribe here so you don't miss another dispatch. Hi Reader, Don't let anyone tell you their way is the only way to create. Some people are up at 5am, creating in the silence of...
almost 2 years ago • 3 min read
Navigating Burnout The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #011 • 2.5 min. read • 484 words Read online Welcome to 4 new creative rebels this week! Za, Terrence, Balu, and Alan, thank you for signing up. ✊ Did you get this email from a friend? Join the Rebellion and subscribe here. Hi Reader, I recently hit a bit of burnout. I quit posting on social media and I let this newsletter slide. I became a ghost online. It was compounded by the fact I took a week off of work and I lost the structure of my...
almost 2 years ago • 2 min read
Take the first step The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #010 • 6 min. read • 1,346 words Read online Welcome to 5 new creative rebels this week! Juergen, Joy, Venus, Grayson, and Kristina, thank you for signing up. ✊ Did you get this email from a friend? Join the Rebellion and subscribe here. Hi Reader, There's nothing like finishing a project. You get an immense sense of satisfaction upon seeing what all the hours and effort you've poured into something have brought forth. But that's at the...
almost 2 years ago • 5 min read
Reinvention or ADD? The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #0096 min. read • 1,106 words Read online Got this email from a friend?Subscribe here. Hi Reader, I've got creative ADD. Its symptoms are similar to how most people would describe classic ADD but on a longer timeframe. I don't have trouble focusing on a single task, organizing, planning, or even executing on projects and tasks. But I do get bored after awhile. And I'm back and forth on whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. See, all the...
almost 2 years ago • 5 min read
The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there. The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #008 • 5 min. read • 987 words Read online Hello Reader, When's the last time you went outside for no other reason than to be outside? No phone, no book, no planned activity. Just you, taking in nature, studying the twisting, reaching branches of trees, feeling the wind against your face, listening to the birds twitter and sing, watching the squirrels leap about, closing your eyes and lifting your head...
almost 2 years ago • 4 min read
You need a Sam Gamgee The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #007 • 4 min. read • 783 words Read online Hello Reader, Confession: this email should have arrived in your inbox last week. But I didn’t finish writing it in time. There were a lot of reasons for not getting it done, but here’s the thing: It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a creative, Resistance will still fight you. I’ve been creating since I could hold a crayon or a pencil. I have 35-year-old notebooks filled with artwork and...
almost 2 years ago • 4 min read
Judge me by how good my good ideas are, not how bad my bad ideas are The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #006 • 4.5 min. read • 906 words Read online Hello Reader, Whoever said there's no such thing as a bad idea was dead wrong. Some ideas are terrible. If you really think about it, the life of a successful creative, in its simplest form, is the courage to get through enough bad ideas that you get to the good ones. And you work towards the occasional great idea. How many bad ideas have you had?...
almost 2 years ago • 4 min read
Don't Break the Chain The Creative Rebellion • Dispatch #005 • 4.75 min. read • 928 words Read online Hello Reader, Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to not break the chain. I've been a bit of a productivity nerd almost as long as I've been a creative. I've tried every method out there: Pomodoro, time blocking, the Eisenhower Principle, sprints, Kanban, to-do lists, to-do apps, time tracking apps, spreadsheets, et al. I've used task and project management apps like: Basecamp,...
about 2 years ago • 4 min read