Do you have creative pursuits — some might call them hobbies, even?! — that you do just for the heckin’ fun of it and not to make any money or scratch a productivity itch?
I feel like my entire life is unmonetized creativity these days, but my dear friend (or as she calls me, “spiritual running buddy”) Joy Manning of
and is exactly the opposite.She WANTS to do stuff for fun, but has a hard time making her brain believe that hours spent coloring or cross-stitching or even watching Severance aren’t “wasted time.”
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So we got together for an experiment in live conversation to talk about Joy’s dream of an Anticapitalist Creativity Camp, why we think it’s fine to be bad at something and still love to do it, and how there’s a connection to mental health and burnout here… somewhere.
She even sneakily got me to talk about food for a little bit!
So listen and watch, and let me know in the comments if you also struggle with justifying, prioritizing, or even having creative pursuits. I’m so curious!
For more of A Good Time:
On Emmys and Other Creative Accomplishments
I got the most hilarious apology from Dan’s cousin when we were in Maine last October for the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest. She asked, “Wasn’t one of your books at the Emmys?”
Finding the fun in failure
I’ve been having a lot of conversations lately about hobbies and extracurricular pursuits, and the value in doing things simply for the fun of it rather than for monetization or a particular goal.
How Human Design has changed me
"I've never been a natural, all I do is try try try” - Taylor Alison Swift, a 5/1 Splenic Projector
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