the ultimate secret for successful creative output

 Brave and attention or fear and fuss?

If something is made while possessing fear and the action of fuss, it will not work. Fear is hidden amongst things like perfectionism, rushed, anger, excuses, procrastination. Fuss is forgetting what's important, what resources and time but fuss also comes from a place of self doubt, lack of confidence, worry, the fear of being judged, the fear of being wrong or the fear of not reaching your own expectations.

Bravery is knowing it might not work and doing it anyway, knowing others won't understand but still making it for it's purpose. Bravery is knowing all the things fear brings and removing those distractions. Attention is not the same as fussing, it is hyper aware and patient, it waits with confidence or attempts without hesitation, it's a relationship between what it is and what it could be.

Next time take an acclaimed piece of work and ask "did the team make this with fear and fuss or bravery and attention?" You really can feel it's soul beat.

Reach outcasts through compassion, not anger.

 "If a child is rejected by the village, they will burn it down to feel it's warmth".

Why people won’t listen to you

 “I don’t care how much you know, until you show me how much you care”.

You can’t pretend time of attention

 How much time and attention have you put into a subject?

This is how to hire. 

Think About ways to unlock the opportunity for someone to demonstrate their time and attention to a subject. It used to be uni but the system became about how fast you could get it done to get a pass rather than deep thinking and immersion in a subject.

Timing creativity

—- S. With "estimated hours" what is the number that's most highest but is also most acceptable?

I don't like giving numbers just because that's not how creativity and output works. But I also acknowledge I'm a part of a bean counter system so I encourage for just putting a number which is acceptable to the people involved but I don't know what that number is. 

---- L. yeah I know, but it helps to track how many man hours is spent on the edits.

just put in max 8 hours a day, doesn't really matter what days you place it on.

----S. Yeah I know but they're different things. Time only tracks what, it doesn't explain why and doesn't account for "compounding" output which is "the extra time I put into episode 1 establishes processes to save time on subsequent episodes". The final problem is if I say 5 full days because on paper it is, well that's also not true. 5 full days spread equally over 3 weeks has a much better output then 5 days in a row. So it's why I struggle with the system. It's why the end date is what matters to me and the project itself will fall into line of those restrictions.

So it's not a good system. I think the best system is others or you should tell me what you hope it took? How long would you like it to be? If 5 full days is too long, let's shorten it, if we can get away with more let's make it more. But it's not a measure of helping because we fit the creativity to the time we have available not the other way around.

Does that make sense?

What time is acceptable for us to all get a good result? 5 full days? Can we get away with 10 full days?

This is what real happiness looks like

 When you find your purpose, you become fulfilled.

Whatch this scientist

. https://youtu.be/ao2Jfm35XeE

Why you are a good manager who's not a good manager

Managers are really just negotiators. I'm a teacher rather than a negotiator.

A negotiator is fast at getting the point across and making people feel like they understand with very little information

A teacher can unpack the reasons why and why not, the cause and effect and help education people to be more knowledgeable than they were before, but it's much slowly and a needs repetition.

The world values the first option especially with a diverse range of different people you may never deal with again. But the second is much more valuable in the long term with core groups of people.