Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to work against something. Figure out what
Speaker 1: makes you fired up and righteously angry. Often that can
Speaker 1: be a major source of inspiration. Today's tip, like some
Speaker 1: others this week, comes from Todd Henry's new book Daily Creative.
Speaker 1: This guide features three sixty six tips to help creative
Speaker 1: people stay prolific, brilliant, and healthy. We often think about
Speaker 1: what makes us happy, and that's good, but thinking about
Speaker 1: what makes us mad is probably just as interesting. As
Speaker 1: Todd writes, figure ring out what makes you angry is
Speaker 1: one of the keys to unlocking your creative voice. He
Speaker 1: doesn't mean road rage type anger. He means compassionate anger,
Speaker 1: which he defines as anger on behalf of someone else.
Speaker 1: It's anger that you feel because there is a wrong
Speaker 1: that needs to be righted, or there is an injustice
Speaker 1: happening around you. These situations can fill us with incredible energy.
Speaker 1: We want to spring into action, not surprisingly, because we
Speaker 1: are so engaged and worked up. We spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time thinking about the problem, and we come up
Speaker 1: with interesting solutions. Todd notes and Daily Creative that he
Speaker 1: is moved to compassionate anger by stories of underdogs. I
Speaker 1: like to write about how people spend time in general,
Speaker 1: but I know that a lot of my work has
Speaker 1: sprung from hearing stories about how for and in particular,
Speaker 1: it is impossible to have a big career and a thriving,
Speaker 1: happy family. Of course, it makes me mad to hear
Speaker 1: it from people who I am pretty sure do not
Speaker 1: have women's best interests at heart. But it also makes
Speaker 1: me mad when women with seemingly solid progressive credentials claim
Speaker 1: that no one can have it all either both ways.
Speaker 1: I am immediately formulating arguments with a passion that has
Speaker 1: me writing a thousand words before I stopped to blink.
Speaker 1: That is crazy energy. If you can tap it strategically,
Speaker 1: you cannot get worked up about everything, then you won't
Speaker 1: do anything except rage. But choosing one or two things
Speaker 1: for which you might explore your righteous anger could be
Speaker 1: very motivating. So what moves you to compassionate anger? Tad
Speaker 1: suggests that it might be seeing that some one or
Speaker 1: some organization isn't delivering on their promises. It might be
Speaker 1: that you see someone as being taken advantage of, or
Speaker 1: maybe you feel intense anger when you feel that an
Speaker 1: inferior product is causing problems for your customers. But PenPoint
Speaker 1: what this anger is in this anger could very well
Speaker 1: lie your life's work. Working against something is often more
Speaker 1: focusing than working for something, so use that fact to
Speaker 1: your advantage in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
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