Speaker 1: Everybody.
Speaker 2: It's spilled courtney from an army of normal folks. Welcome
Speaker 2: into the shop. Hi, Alex, Hello Belle, shop talk one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten. What happened on hundred ten years ago?
Speaker 3: Outs it was nineteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually could do the bath this time.
Speaker 4: I should have looked up the pronunciation of this, because
Speaker 4: they're gonna sound like an idiot. Is it the Battle
Speaker 4: of the sum I don't know spell it s mmeme
Speaker 4: a battle of s o me no, s mme. Oh,
Speaker 4: we're gonna sound like real idiots here after what I'm
Speaker 4: about to say, it doesn't matter. By the end of
Speaker 4: the battle, more than one million casualties on both sides.
Speaker 1: Was this World War One?
Speaker 3: And yet we don't how to pronounce it?
Speaker 2: Those idiots a million casualties, unbelievable.
Speaker 4: And then the Battle of Verdon, I'm doing how to
Speaker 4: pronounce that, but seven hundred thousand people died there.
Speaker 1: World War one.
Speaker 2: You know, people talk about Vietnam and all of that,
Speaker 2: because obviously we started having cameras and all, but that
Speaker 2: trench warfare and World War One was disgusting, and they
Speaker 2: barely gained any land. They just killed each other. I
Speaker 2: have nothing to add okay, Shop Talk one ten, I
Speaker 2: quit what had to die so the work could live.
Speaker 2: Right after these brief messages from our general sponsors, Everybody's
Speaker 2: shop Talk number one ten, I quit what had to
Speaker 2: die so the work could live.
Speaker 1: This is from Eric Locksmo.
Speaker 3: Yeah you got it. We feature it several times.
Speaker 1: I know, I just I'm so. You know. It's how
Speaker 1: some words you just get a brain block on it.
Speaker 2: But Eric Loxmoe in his newsletter Out of Wild, I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm done playing piano in the brothel and expecting things
Speaker 2: to change. What are great open? Here's the summary. I
Speaker 2: quit the applause. Applause is cotton candy. It fills you
Speaker 2: for an hour and leaves you unsatisfied and hungry. I
Speaker 2: want to make things that would be worth making in
Speaker 2: an empty room at midnight, with no one watching but
Speaker 2: the creator. I quit the Inner Ring. C. S. Lewis
Speaker 2: is right. There's always a circle just past the one
Speaker 2: you're in, and the longing to be insight.
Speaker 1: It will eat your life. I will not.
Speaker 2: Trade my convictions for a seat at the table that
Speaker 2: moves every time I get close. I quit the algorithm.
Speaker 2: I will not chop my thinking to fit a feed.
Speaker 2: The feed forgets everything by morning. I want to make
Speaker 2: things that would still mean something in fifty years or
Speaker 2: five hundred, or never reat at all. I quit the swagger,
Speaker 2: the posturing, the performance of confidence. It's a costume and
Speaker 2: costumes itch. I'd rather walk lighter and lesser and tell
Speaker 2: the truth. I quit the latter. Envy is the thief
Speaker 2: of every good thing. Someone is always further along, someone
Speaker 2: is always behind, pulling you down. Neither has anything to
Speaker 2: do with the work in front of me. I quit
Speaker 2: the money first, not money, money first. When money leads,
Speaker 2: beauty follows it into the ditch. I'd rather make something
Speaker 2: good and be paid late than make something cheap and
Speaker 2: be paid now. I quit waiting for permission. No one
Speaker 2: is coming. There's no gatekeeper holding of a key. The
Speaker 2: permission was given a long time ago by something older
Speaker 2: than the industry. I quit the urgency. Most of what
Speaker 2: calls itself urgent is just loud. The deep things are quiet,
Speaker 2: The eternal things wait. I will work at the pace
Speaker 2: of a tree, not a notification.
Speaker 1: I quit being interesting, and interesting is in quotations.
Speaker 2: And I love how lately, whenever we talk about somebody
Speaker 2: that we like we say they're interesting. I love this.
Speaker 2: I quit being interesting. Interesting is a trick of the surface.
Speaker 2: I'd rather be true.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 2: Age is well, interesting goes stale by Thursday. I quit
Speaker 2: the gurus, the frameworks, the funnels, the five step past
Speaker 2: to a life no one's selling them is actually living.
Speaker 2: I trust the older books. They've outlasted everything. I quit
Speaker 2: explaining myself. The work is the explanation. If it needs
Speaker 2: a thread to defend it, it wasn't ready. Let the
Speaker 2: things stay or fall on its own. I quit hoarding
Speaker 2: the notebook of somebody, the folder of Allmost ideas are
Speaker 2: not currency until they're finished. I'll give them away or
Speaker 2: let them go. I quit the identity writer, creator frownder.
Speaker 2: The label becomes a cage and then a coffin. I'm
Speaker 2: a person who wants to see others go forward and far.
Speaker 2: That is enough, that has always been enough. I quit
Speaker 2: the temporal, the trending, the timely, the hot take that
Speaker 2: cools by dinner. I want to work toward what doesn't change,
Speaker 2: the human heart, the longing for home, the ache for
Speaker 2: something just out of reach we never quite been able
Speaker 2: to name. I quit the small self, the timid one,
Speaker 2: the one who flinches, the one who creates what's safe,
Speaker 2: because the true thing might cost something. I'd rather pay
Speaker 2: the cost the piano can stay. I'm walking out.
Speaker 1: I love that, y'all.
Speaker 2: Eric's writing is at Ouda Wilde's dot substack dot com.
Speaker 1: I think, oh, I'm sorry, You're right. I d l
Speaker 1: e w I l d I s.
Speaker 2: Out of wild is at substack dot com.
Speaker 1: And this is what the third one of these third
Speaker 1: or fourth.
Speaker 2: But Eric's thoughtful, and he he he will occasionally read
Speaker 2: these things that he that he writes that are lists
Speaker 2: of thoughts that are independent, but as you intertwine them together,
Speaker 2: you often get the idea.
Speaker 1: That he's evoking. And I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm done playing the piano in the brothel an expecting
Speaker 2: things to change. And I think the whole point to
Speaker 2: this is we need to be done with with chasing
Speaker 2: what social media and today's culture and society says we
Speaker 2: need to be and how we need to act, and
Speaker 2: constantly feeling empty because we're never able to fully reach
Speaker 2: what today's culture and society says we need to be.
Speaker 2: So he's done playing the piano in the broth and
Speaker 2: expecting things to change. And I think his challenge here
Speaker 2: is to is to get back to the basics. Quit
Speaker 2: the swagger, quit the posturing, quit the algorithm. Quit trying
Speaker 2: to get into the next ring. Quit worrying about applause.
Speaker 2: Quit worrying about climbing the ladder. Make sure money doesn't
Speaker 2: define you. Quit waiting for permission. Do what you knows right.
Speaker 2: Quit being quote interesting, Just be true, be authentic. Quit
Speaker 2: the gurus, the famebrook the funnels, the five steps, trust
Speaker 2: the older books. Quit explaining yourself. Just do right. Quit
Speaker 2: hoarding everything like ideas and money, share. Don't worry about
Speaker 2: the identity. Just be who you are. Don't worry about
Speaker 2: what's trending and timely, worry about what's time tested. And
Speaker 2: don't be the small self. Don't be timid, don't be
Speaker 2: the one who flinches. Do all of these things, and
Speaker 2: don't worry about what culture society in today's world says
Speaker 2: about it. The piano can stay, I'm walking out. That's
Speaker 2: good stuff.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of the line like, just run your
Speaker 4: own race, don't worry about everybody else. I'm just in
Speaker 4: a race with alex in trying to be the best
Speaker 4: version of myself. And also the quote that comparison is
Speaker 4: the thief of joy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good stuff. That's true. You know, Alex, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. Yeah, that comment makes you interesting. It's
Speaker 2: just real. It's good stuff, all right, everybody. That's shop
Speaker 2: Talk number one ten. Uh. If you enjoyed it, please
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Speaker 4: I wild is dot substack dot is.
Speaker 2: Out of wildness. Out of wildness is what I said,
Speaker 2: like an idiot. Back to shop talk number one or nine.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I screwed up. Out of wild is substack
Speaker 2: dot com and read more of veric stuff.
Speaker 1: It at the very least, is very very thought.
Speaker 2: Provoking, and I I'm glad we do it every once
Speaker 2: a while because I find it really interesting. Yeah. If
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