Our first interview with someone who isn’t us! We spoke with Lily Hammer (aka Kate), a writer, drummer, photographer, and all around creative. She talked about her approach to creativity, and how her creative efforts and interests have changed over time. She also shared how creativity helped her cope with a dark time in her life. How placing creativity at the forefront helps her be the hopeful and creative person she is today.
In this episode, John interviews Kevin about his creativity.
Kevin talks about why he writes and what happens when he lacks creative focus. He discuses taking his creativity full time and his other creative outlets, like playing guitar.
Our interviews highlight people, famous or not so famous, living lives focused on their creativity.
Creativity Resources:
Kevin suggests using podcasts and searching often. We often forget that people publish new ones all the time.
John recommends Get Back, the Beatles documentary by Peter Jackson on Disney+.
In this episode, Kevin interviews John about his creativity.
John talks about why he focuses on music, and why having a creative focus is important to him. He also discusses other creative endeavors, such as photography, and doing creative work with his partner.
This is the first in a series of interviews with people living creatively. Our goal is to highlight people (famous or not) living creative lives.
Creativity Resources: John and Kevin unknowingly shared the same resource. (Something incorrectly attributed to great minds thinking alike.) But the unanimous recommendation is: The Marginalian by Maria Popova. Maria shares posts two to three times a week about creativity, love, poetry, science, philosophy, and really captures the essence of living a creative life.
In episode 5, John and Kevin discuss creativity as a process rather than an outcome. Every creative person produces finished work from time to time. For each creative work, however, there is a process of continuous learning and improvement that goes into it. They discuss the importance of a growth mindset and being open to viewing each work as a step along the way of a much longer journey.
The guys also talk about studies done in the 1960s that show we are all born creative and we can recapture that creativity at any point in our lives.
Resources
Much of the material for this episode was drawn from an article by James Clear: Creativity is a Process, Not an Event. Check it out on Jame’s Clear’s site.
Kleon’s book discusses many of the same subjects as the hosts do in the podcast but puts a great deal of emphasis on learning from, and emulating, your influences as a way to help find your own voice. In turn, Kleon discusses the value of learning from the influences that inspired your creative heroes.
