Brandon Baum

It's not because of the story.

It's because you've noticed a tiny little weird thing in the background that there's a voice in your head that's eating at you to fix it.

It trained me to drop those and just really focus on the things that the audience really cares about.

So that was a great experience.

I don't think it matters what it is.

I just think the craft of practicing, doing something daily, forcing yourself to get it out, and just being in that creation cycle.

I'd argue I felt like at my most creative in that period.

There's an analogy I love.

I promise I'm going to get to the after, I promise.

This is the last tangent.

Appreciate you.

There's an awesome Ed Sheeran documentary, and he has this analogy where he talks about creativity.

And he says, okay, this is your creativity.

Imagine you go into a derelict house, everywhere's moldy, dirty, grimy, just everything destroyed and disgusting.

And in that house, there is a tap.

And, you know, you sort of turn the faucet and just dirty, dirty, horrible water comes out.

But that dirty water, that's your bad ideas flowing out the tap.

He said, if you leave the tap running for long enough and you keep trying to experiment and make new things, eventually, for the first time, a tiny spit of clear water comes out.

And that tiny spit is your first good idea.

But then it's all dirty and rubbish and it keeps going for a while.