About 15 years into my podcasting journey I recorded an episode entitled, A Virtual Tour Of My Podcasting Studio. I published it 9 years ago today, January 25, 2015. In 2019 I published an update, Welcome Inside The Yellow Studio (This Is How I Podcast Now). Since then I’ve tried to keep a page on my personal website updated – Inside The Yellow Studio.
The technology has changed monumentally since I began almost 24 years ago. Things have gotten so much easier – and so much more refined. As much as I enjoyed those early years when all of us were figuring it out, today is better. Today’s show is less about the operational part of podcasting though and it’s more about the metaphor of The Yellow Studio – creating, publishing and sharing. It’s about the broadcasting of stories, ideas, observations and insights. It’s about a journey into creativity. Well, it’s about a journey deeper into creativity. I won’t bore you with the earliest memories of the journey which began in childhood engaged in all sort of acts of imagination.
As much as I love to learn, which requires mounds of consuming (reading, listening, observing), I’m more in love with creativity, crafting something from mostly nothing. Starting with a spark. Sometimes small. Sometimes not. A burning ember sometimes. A bolt of lightning at other times.
Creativity takes practice. As in, you have to do it. Also, as in you have to do it repeatedly to improve.
Bouts of creativity against not being creative at all have prevailed my entire life. As a little boy playing with an impressive Matchbox car collection to laying in the yard looking up through the pines at the clouds wondering what to do next. Enthusiastic hours spent building a fort in the woods or a treehouse in the backyard coupled with lethargic hours spent telling ourselves we had nothing to do. Boredom always best fought off by engaging the gears of our imagination so we could create hours of delight often doing something we’d not done before. Or doing things we’d done a million times before. And ready to do it again one more time because we loved it so.
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Spending Control: How’s That Working Out For You?
Self-Control: The Road To Ruin? Or The Road To Happiness?
What Will People Remember When You’re Gone?
Being Open To Opportunities (The Metaphor That Is The Yellow Studio)
Does Your Printer Have Paper? (and other urgent questions for the digital age)
Turning Over A New Leaf Won’t Help If It’s Poison Ivy
How’s Your Clock Speed?
Always Improving (A.I.)
The Yellow Studio version 3.0 Is Now Live (kinda sorta)
Growth Comes By Ending Something So You Can Begin Something New
Learning Optimism: You Find What You’re Looking For
Why Do You Want What You Want?
Conversations, Podcasts & A Focus On Others
The Ask-Me-Anything Episode
Will You Allow Your Failures To Pole Vault You To Success?
Getting It Right In Realtime May Mean Changing Your Mind
Age, Broken Hearts & The Getting of Wisdom
Ambition Has No Expiration Date
Two Women, One Dream & Plan M
If I’d Known I’d Live This Long, I’d Have Tried A Bit Harder
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