What’s your best creative process? | One Good Question

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0:52 Um. He says, what is the creative process or your creative process? And he's leaving it open on purpose to open? Uh interpret haitian. I Actually I don't know. Creativity's interesting in general how people speak sometimes and let's say like oh yeah, he's creative or she's not creative, or I'm not creative and I don't even know enough. I used to listen to more podcasts and read up on psychology of it or people's thoughts or some I listened to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks from creative people, and that helps me be creative. But I don't know if you can like learn to be creative or not. Not to switch that question that yeah, it's sort of left brain right brain thing. Yeah, some people say you have it or you don't, and yeah, you're more of a and I think you learn as you get older, But I don't know if it's what you enjoy or what you've tapped into or what's your programmed. A lot of us are like good at or what we do is what people told us we do or what we're good at. Oh, Mike, he's funny, So then I try to be funny all the fucking time, you know what I mean, rather than like, maybe I'm not funny, or maybe I don't like being funny, or maybe I'm not naturally funny or whatever. It comes back to the thing with that they say with with kids, you shouldn't tell them that they're smart or they're they're special or whatever. You should tell them that they work really hard if that's not actually true, or give them, you know, um qualitative things based on effort as opposed to sort of in dwelling qualities like intelligence or what heard similar things, or like don't say like I'm proud of you, like say are you proud of you? Yeah? Um, I've heard

2:23 a lot of different stuff like that. The basis for me and I learned it from my head coach shot out Dean Stark is just like and he does it himself, but he just says like, I'm only gonna compliment you when you deserve a compliment. Yeah, Like, we're not gonna I'm not gonna tell you all your worked hard when you didn't work hard. I'm not gonna tell you a good game when you're a good game. I'm not gonna tell you that was a great shot when you shot a bad shot. You know, Like there's a difference between like building someone's confidence here and there. Um and then just like yeah, straight up line, because then we can never communicate them, we can never be on the same page. Okay, so here's my question. Then, um, watching a lot more basketball right now obviously myself. Yeah, okay, so miss a three free throw? Right, and you're still, yeah, that's just for routine. Is that just routine? Yeah, that's not telling you did good just because like yeah, and that same idea which I was going to, Actually that's a good lead into why what I do did to get creative? Or I've learned or I've heard other people say, is the flow state, which you hopefully is if you know, have experienced or get into true flow state, it's probably where you're performing best and your most creative. Arguably, because flow state is when, at least is my interpretation, I think it is slightly variable, even though there's probably a real definition out there. But when you have enough skill in something that you're kind of subconscious or you let go in a way and you just kind of do, you don't think, you just be. And

3:53 people often only experience it when they have semi mastered something you can't. People say like, oh, play music flow state. Well, if you don't know how to play the trumpet and you hop into JR. Jasmine, it's impossibles flow there. Basketball, same thing. Basketball and music are the only places that I've experienced it. And I wasn't not that good at music, but I was off fishing and selffishent enough in my pocket that I could in basketball I was. I think I had mastered enough skills that things are just happening. I'm not dribbling up the court thinking all right, I'm gonna cross over, I'm gonna spin move. I just fucking go and where that the defender ends up, I'm just countering it, just not thinking. So I've heard creatively to get into flow state, the best way to do it is by routine. So whether that be every day you want to draw a picture, or if you're an artist and you wake up, then you do coffee.

4:44 Then you sit in the same place at the same time with the same music, with the same lighting, with the same seat and the same this and that and that, and you line up all these you control all these other variables, so then your body just steps into that creative process. That sounds interesting yet ever done it that way? But yeah, but uh yeah, I'm not huge that way either. But that's what made me think of the free throw. The same idea is like batting, Right, whether you're batting, you miss more than you hit for sure, Right, that's the difference than a free throw, a good free throw, shoot a really good free throw shooters hitting nine, yeah, that's really good. But still um, same idea. You're tapping your cleat, you're tapping your cleat, you're pulling your thing, and now you're gonna go hit um and you're doing that routine and missing more than making, but you're still doing that routine. Okay.

5:29 So that's what I would say for basketball, like the fist bump or whatever, like camaraderie stuff and then m yeah, definitely camaraderie. And it's kind of like a teammate thing too, like the false compliment like if if if if if I hit someone with a perfect pass and they missed the shot, if I saw they were in if it's something I want repeat it's kind of like a dog or a baby. If it's something I want repeated. As a point guard or a coach, I would say, hey, it's all right, get shot, get shot, get shot, even though he missed, because I think it was a good opportunity to score and he's more likely to hit the next one. Not if it's a bad shot. I probably wouldn't say nothing yeah, or be like yo, kick that back out or you know, yeah, it's a little bit of a I see you, Yeah, yeah, same idea. Yeah, I see you, I see what you're trying to do. Um. For me, I think that the creative my creative process, if I actually can be said to have one, is um. The thing I've learned is that you can't throw out ideas too soon, even if they seem like they might be bad ideas from the beginning. You're saying no, I'm saying keep them until let them a culture.

6:36 Yeah, let them let them, yeah, let them let them steep a little bit, because the solution to why something is bad to make it good might be the thing that the thing that you can take to another idea and have it work. Yeah. I think creativity is just such um an interesting thing because there's creativity and so much that we do, like obviously the core being creation, but there's like fixing problems, which is a different form of creation for me than coming up with a shirt design or a collection concept like pure creativity and a more historically artsy sense. I guess versus creativity in powerlifting program because there's creativity there that's troubleshooting or problem solving. I think problem solving is creative, and how I go about each of those processes are very different. I think I agree with you when it comes to the concept you said when I'm doing more of a arts creative, because then I want to like almost let it evolve. I'm on step one in my brain and letting that out there people, depending on who you give it to, but even in general, people might just not understand it or it might not be good yet. But I can build it to step five, which is allows me to represent what the actual creation is better. But in terms of problem solving, sometimes I feel like throwing it out right away helps depending on who,

8:09 because then someone can already see step five, you know what I mean, And we do that in business sometimes. Hey man, I'm thinking about building up Second Saturday. That was Seabass's idea. Hey, I think Second Saturday could be a big thing. And then he throws it to us, and then I can see, oh, okay, well, then I could see it at step five already rather than the arts creation. It's hard for you to see what's in my head if I just throw it out early. Yeah. Right. For me, it's been really difficult challenged lately, much like Jim, where we're not very corporate with what we do, yet every business has a corporate structure, And so if we had to wear hats, I'd say we'd probably co owned the CEO hat. Jim runs more in the CFO area and I run more in the CCO area, and those two direct conflict.

8:56 Where for those Yeah, like creative creative chief officer and like a creative executive officer or whatever, you know, one is literally in charge of putting rubber to ground. That's kind of the CEO job, like how does shit get done? Or what gets done when? How procedures? And in a more corporate ladder, there's people under him obviously that actually do it, but he's the one setting these processes and following through or sheet and the creative one is obviously and the ultimate corporate structure is just ideas. They're the kuc bat they're the dreamers, they're the and when I have to wear a half and half, they blunt each other a lot. So like I'd love to do all this cool shit with the clothes, but Margins budgets, you know, practicality of what I want to do. I want to paint the whole gym bright yellow, you know, but like we can't do that, you know, Like there's all these things that just don't like Artistically, I'd love to do a bunch of cool shit to match the collections with the gym, but that costs money and that would steer away members who just come here. Like some people are all all about everything we do. They like to close, they like the podcast, and they think the clothes are creative. But some people just want this as a training facility and for me not to say hello so these creative things, so I have to think those things right where I would love to fucking yeah, paint the whole thing yellow for a certain launch, because I think it would look fucking sick, and yellow is one of our main colors. But that's gonna lose twenty members, all right, Mike, Chill the fuck out. We can't do that one, you know it plus the money of painting the whole thing and whatever whatever. But that's just like one made up example of how that goes. So the whole creation process

10:30 for me now is a little bit more organized. I was talking about getting a flow state where I just separate my days, so morning I'm doing all the admin stuff, I'm waking up and I'm doing the logistics with the clothing. Early six seven o'clock. It asked to get done because of the time change of who I'm working with and how my brain works. So I'm doing the emails, I'm doing the data on sizing of what we used to sell versus what I'm putting the next order in all these little things, the margins, I'm I'm negotiating, I'm doing kind of the admin stuff. Middle of the day's the content creation, which is a type of creation. But I think naturally you and I just have done that over time. But two, it's when I feel like most awake and wanting to be social. I don't want to be social in the morning. I don't really want to be social in night. And all content creation, whether it's a solo project or the podcast or whatever, I do that then and then the creation creation happens more at night. And so I'm either in bed scrolling around. I'm looking at art, I'm looking at podcasts, I'm looking at videos, I'm looking at other things. And I forgot who said it. I think it was a musician. I wish I remembered better. But because it's a little bit back and forth, but I think people said to be a great artist, you have to consume art because I've heard opposite, you know, I think it was a little Wayne said, I don't listen to anyone's music about my own because I don't want to be tainted by it. But that doesn't mean he doesn't consume other forms of art. Yeah, and that's something I have always kind of been inspired by where I like, I love music, and I love culture, and I'm getting more into like other mediums. Like we were

12:03 talking about graffiti and different things in the other cars. Consider art anything visual arts, and then how do I represent that into clothing. I also consume clothing content. I won't lie, you know, I watch and keep up with other designers and stuff. But I think you can be inspired by other forms of art to create the type of art you do, but consuming too much of the same art that you are trying to create may interfere with your creature. Yeah, where you can come up with you need to be inspired by something. But yeah, I'm two examples. One. I've told the story before, but I'm gonna tell again that when I was writing my master's project, I had a terrible self editing problem because I was this is what I was talking about, just letting things do, just go just write, you know, and if you but if you start editing yourself too soon, then you can't get past the hump. That's kind of even get stuck.

12:58 That's kind of even what I was talking about, the ad men versus creative, because like putting your pyramids in common, the right place really is in creation. That's more admin. Yeah. Right, So if you're writing a sentence and then making sure it's grammatically perfect rather than just spewing your brain out and then going back and worrying about grammar, I think I get caught up because because fairly often, even my you know what, you would think it was pretty mundane writing has a lot of shit built into it, you know, and so that you know, that process in my mind, the legos that go into to building those those sentences and paragraphs or whatever, it's just more complicated. But I came to realize that I had to distract myself and not edit that stuff, go back and find the threads that I really want to bring forward, and then rewrite based on that. And as opposed to stopping every sentence and just having a giant like birthing event over everyone and the other thing. It was like we just did this episode when we've talked about things you believe or or don't believe or would like to believe but I think may not be true. And the idea around that was just I saw this article about UFOs, it's like, well, yeah, I mean like I would like to believe that that's true. Yeah, and a lot of people apparently do believe it's true that there's intelligent life out there. So can we talk about that for you know an episode? Yeah, actually we can, And we can even bring it back around to stuff that we do, and that's that's you know, that's the sort of day to day content creation stuff

14:28 when it's just the two of us when we don't have we don't have guests or we don't have a panel or whatever, like some major didn't happen in the news or yeah, and something that like, um, there's there's a certain timeliness about it, but at the same time not so much. Yeah, I mean yeah, And I think that kind of goes back to the being inspired by other things, right, Yeah, what CNN is talking about UFOs has nothing to do with our podcast. Now, I can inspire what you do and see abouts and I do similar with YouTube. We saw the biggest YouTubers in the world are doing Taco Bell menu tier list. Oh all right, and today we did a deadlift tier list. You know, is that the most creative, earth shattering thing I've ever done? No, but there's an ounce of creativity there to see how something can translate to your world or putting someone else's um creations in a sense, into your vision and your perspective. So, um, I never had one, But there's this thing called a French taco. Yeah it what it looks like it's a hot pocket to me. But if it's just if the if the outside of the hot pocket was not pastry, but it was a tortilla. Oh, it's like flower, like a burrito at I'd like that. I mean that sounds a Panada e yeah, but Mpanada. You know, I almost went to this is crazy. We we ended up deciding not to do it because it was way out of the way. But there's a video of Jon Favreau and Pedro Pascal talking about American food versus um Chilean food. Yeah, skeltch land.

16:00 Yeah, so if you um, yeah, that obviously that was somebody's creative content idea. Right, Okay, let's do American food versus whatever. And there's a place in London. It's a coffee shop, but it has impanadas that that Peter Prascal said, Oh, this tastes just like what I would have in Chile. Interesting, Yeah, probably very similar in Argentina. I assume what they eat probably say we we we almost to it and then we ended up deciding to go a different direction because it's kind of way out of the way. That's some weird Argentinian food. Like La Vegas everyone has, so we don't really have any here. I know there's supposed to be a cafe opening, but Chilean food you almost never hear about. Yeah, population might just be too little. It's a spread though, you know it probably Peruvian, Yeah, but even Peruvian. It is weird that that's common because that's a small ass country. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, and their food Yeah, probably very similar regionally. All right, ladies and gentlemen.

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