Sadly, for me at least, Marc Maron ended his long running podcast WTF. It had become a staple of every Monday and Thursday morning. I feel a little lost without it. Even if I had no interest in some of the guests, Marc’s monologue was essential listening. I would always be very attentive is there was another comedian as a guest as there would usually be some deep, real talk and maybe some interesting talk about creative process.

In the penultimate episode, Marc found a series of words to describe his creative process and I’m meditating on these as this weeks Life List.

Desperation.

Urgency.

Connection.

Need.

Selfish.

Panic.

Anxiety.

Summarising with “Out of that combination, I became a more full, compassionate, empathetic, wiser, funnier, humble person.”

I can relate to a lot of those words in relation to creativity. So maybe that’s an approach to take to furnish your/our creative armoury.

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