Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Lay Another Brick
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes the thing we're building, whether that's an exciting new project or a whole career, feels ...
More Than Fun
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Isn't art-making and creativity meant to be fun? Why is it so often a source of struggle than anythi...
For The Introverts
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Introversion seems to have become a movement lately and as someone with strong life-long introverted...
A Different Episode
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You're different. About the only thing that we all share in common is that we are so very different....
A Word With Pareto
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
19th-century economist Vilfredo Pareto was out in his garden when he noticed only 20% of his pea pla...
More Than Time
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We need time to do our best work, but not only time. We need the internal resources to pay the emoti...
Worry or Wonder?
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A recent visit to the dentist sent me into a tailspin when I was told I needed a root canal. After a...
What's Your "Hell, Yes!"?
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The creative life is full of decisions. Do we? Don't we? And how? Some people over-think their choic...
On Vision and Craft
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a relationship between the skills—or craft—that we hone, and our ability to dream about...
5127
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Creativity is less the stuff of brilliant ideas and more the reality that those ideas take work to r...
You're Doing It Wrong
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For something so rooted in uncertainty, innovation and the discovery of new things, isn't it strange...
The Ability to Produce
05 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If the last episode of A Beautiful Anarchy was about the pressure to produce, this one is the (lovin...
The Pressure to Produce
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paralyzed by the pressure to produce and keep cranking out the work? You're not alone. Creators ofte...
Boxed Sets & Glory Days
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If the last episode of A Beautiful Anarchy was about failing to move on from past defeats and choosi...
When It All Goes Wrong
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Life is never a straight line. You never get into comedy, for example, thinking you'll nearly burn d...
More Than What You Start
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There was a motivational poster in my school that admonished us to "Always finish what you start." I...
An Audience of One
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When I sent out an email last month talking about the need to be able to identify the audience for o...
How Do I...?
10 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The time has never been better to be a self-teacher. Learning how to do new things is as simple as a...
The Freedom Of Being Wrong
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Chilton Pearce said, "to live a creative life we must lose the fear of being wrong." And yet ...
The Play's The Thing
20 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere along the way we decided play and work were necessarily different from each other. Maybe i...
Dig!
13 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo Picasso was once asked whether he knew, when he started it, what a painting was going to look ...
Memento Mori
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Roman stoic philosopher, Seneca, in the years before Nero went crazy and ordered the poor guy to...
Getting Off The Nail
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Only 2 months ago about 190 million Americans made New Year's resolutions in hopes of introducing ch...
Feed The Right Wolf
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the old Cherokee story about the two wolves battling within each of us, the one that prevails is ...
The King is Dead
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996 Bill Gates wrote an article entitled Content is King for the Microsoft website. This premise...
Curious, George?
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Einstein's brain was stolen, and subsequently studied. What did it reveal about his genius and creat...
Adapting to the Paintbox
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While 'thinking outside the box' is short-hand for 'let's be really creative!' It is thinking inside...
Over Time
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are two narratives competing for the attention of creative people trying to unlock the so-call...
Plenty in The Fridge
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Where do you get your ideas? If you're like me, sometimes they appear out of the blue, but most ofte...
No One Needs a Juggler
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When you're selling juggling to the world, as I did for a dozen years, you can't afford to let your ...
What's Your Fight?
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A friend asked me a question recently that brought me a series of revelations that have pulled me o...
Home, Alone?
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In reaction to something the Chief Economist of the Bank of England said about creative work, and ho...
They Aren't Watching
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Worried about others watching (and judging us), many of us become self-conscious about how we presen...
The Monkey Trap
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two months ago I left social media. The response to my leaving, from friends and those who follow me...
Turn The Lights On
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Things are pretty uncertain right now and most of us aren't completely chill about uncertainty. We f...
The Feedback Trap
24 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Play the Unplayable
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Let Your Peg Bore Its Own Hole
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It Takes Guts
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Un-Blank the Page
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Feed the Fire
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stolen Ideas About Originality
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Balance, Boredom & Burnout
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Saying Yes to No
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Problem with Deadlines
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Start Ugly + Start Often
25 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE LABEL STICKS
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
HARD BEGINNINGS
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
MISTAKES + MUTATIONS
27 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WHAT YOU DO WITH THE SCARS
20 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WITHOUT THE GARGOYLES
06 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE SAME RIVER TWICE
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE VALUE OF DOUBT
23 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
FIND WHAT YOU LOVE?
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
IT'S NOT THE TOOL
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NAVIGATING FOG
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
TOUCH THE HEART
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
TOO LATE TO CHANGE
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WHAT'S THE POINT?
28 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE BOSS OF ME
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
HUNGER > TALENT
07 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
BETTER QUESTIONS?
29 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SECOND PLACE
22 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NOW WHAT?
08 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Starting new work means eventually it comes to an end in some form and while the feeling of being do...
A LIFE AT THE IMPROV
01 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The rules of improv are not complicated and, depending who you ask, they vary, but there are 4 that ...
FEED THE STARVING ARTIST
25 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A pragmatic 15-minute episode about connecting with the audience for whom we make what we create, an...
CROWDSOURCING JOY
11 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Creative people often find their emotional lives connected a little too tightly to their work: happy...
DEEPER WORK
04 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I’m a big fan of being intentional about life, and how I spend my time is among the biggest decisi...
WHERE IS YOUR HALL PASS?
28 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You’re not alone in feeling at times like you need permission to operate outside the so-called rul...
LEARNING TO DROP
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most common barriers to starting, finishing, and sharing our work is the crisis of self-c...
SELL WITH SOUL
07 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Not everyone wants to sell their work, but for those that do it’s a different kind of struggle, a ...
BEAUTIFUL WARRIORS
30 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I never learned to fight, but I got picked on plenty in school. And then my mother put me in Judo an...
THE PROBLEM WITH MUSES
16 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In ancient greek mythology there were 9 muses, responsible for the worlds of literature, science and...
TAKE ME DEEPER
09 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is an exploration of some of the distractions that keep us from our best work and getti...
JUST AN AMATEUR?
02 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s common-practice to describe our art-making efforts as either amateur or professional, the ama...
BE VERY YOU
19 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode about the struggle to be (and become) fully ourselves. Defiantly so, even.
LEAVING DAFEN
12 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a conversation about the insufficiency of craft and imitation in the creation of art that is...
ABOUT PERFECTION
05 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On the surface perfectionism sounds like one of those flaws you readily admit to because really it’...
MAKE THE TIME
22 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Without exceptions the most fruitful times in my creative life, and I include my business in this, b...
OVERWHELMED
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I don’t think we’re hard-wired to be able to deal with this much information, this many so-calle...
IMPOSTER SYNDROME
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Imposter syndrome is a state in which we believe not only that we’re faking it, that we’re not r...