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Perfectionism is Making You Worse at Art

29 min • 15 april 2024

Back to our favourite punching bag: Perfectionism.

We talk about how perfectionism leads to stagnancy, stunts your growth as a creative, and ultimately leads to worse art.

LA and San Francisco artists (or anyone who wants to travel there!), we are coming to your city!

LA workshop: 25th of March

San Fran workshop: 1st of June

Pricing is on a sliding scale to accomodate different budgets.

Learn more here

Senaste avsnitt

How to Be Consistent When You Have Multiple Projects, How We Rest, and Artists' Money Issues (Q+A)

28 januari | 56 min

We Don't Want Jobs!

21 januari | 60 min

Artist, You're Allowed to Stay Small and Sustainable

14 januari | 53 min

What Can Artists Expect in 2025 (Last Prediction Will Shock You [Because it's So Not Any More Interesting Than Any Other Prediction and Just as Likely to be Wrong])?

7 januari | 58 min

How Artists should Set Intentions for the New Year

30 december 2024 | 62 min

We Don't Want to Learn from Perfect People

18 december 2024 | 29 min

Collaborating With Your Partner: How We Wrote Our Sci-fi Novel Together

30 oktober 2024 | 26 min

What Does A Full Time Income Look Like for Artists? All About Our Finances

23 oktober 2024 | 44 min

The 18 Artist Archetypes! Which One Are You?

19 september 2024 | 49 min

Creativity 101: Getting Started and Improving as an Artist

13 september 2024 | 35 min

Preparing for Success, Picking Yourself First, and Why We Need Your Art

22 augusti 2024 | 44 min

Creativity 101: Perfectionism

13 augusti 2024 | 28 min

Creativity 101: Procrastination: Striking the Balance Between Big Ambitions and Achievable Goals

29 juli 2024 | 27 min

Creativity 101: Journaling For Artists

22 juli 2024 | 33 min

Secrets of our Marriage

2 juli 2024 | 55 min

Elitism in the Arts

24 juni 2024 | 28 min

Should Artists Do Free Work?

11 juni 2024 | 22 min

Q&A Do we want kids, falling out of love with art, and fan fiction

20 maj 2024 | 27 min

How To Deal with a Slump

14 maj 2024 | 43 min

Are Books Dying Out?

6 maj 2024 | 41 min

Our Biggest Failures and What We've Learned From Them

29 april 2024 | 33 min

There's Nothing Wrong with Making Money from Art

23 april 2024 | 25 min

Perfectionism is Making You Worse at Art

15 april 2024 | 29 min

Creative Would You Rather

3 april 2024 | 28 min

How To Fight For Your Art with Author Emma Couette

25 mars 2024 | 63 min

Amie's sister Kirsty on starting a business at 21, motherhood and, parenting.

13 mars 2024 | 40 min

Do We Need to "Normalise the 9-5"?

4 mars 2024 | 35 min

Planning and Preparing When You'd Rather Not

26 februari 2024 | 52 min

Vulnerability over Comfort with Performance Coach Sion Cousins

14 februari 2024 | 52 min

Artists need to learn to say NO, with Augustine Charles

22 januari 2024 | 47 min

How We Got A Publishing Deal With Penguin

17 januari 2024 | 37 min

Losing followers, cluttered desks, patience, and working together (Q&A)

10 januari 2024 | 35 min

Our Favourite Things of 2023

11 december 2023 | 49 min

Artists Don't Have to be in Pain

4 december 2023 | 30 min

How to be an Artist on Social Media

27 november 2023 | 41 min

Our Top 5 Tips for Creatives

25 november 2023 | 34 min

Is Success Random?

6 november 2023 | 34 min

Publishing Industry Deep Dive with Seth Haddon

30 oktober 2023 | 54 min

Safely Increasing Your Output

25 oktober 2023 | 33 min

Self regulation, stagnation, and shyness.

13 september 2023 | 22 min

Seth Godin on why Artists help solve the world's biggest problems

6 september 2023 | 20 min

Progress Isn't Linear

21 augusti 2023 | 27 min

Kitty and Al Tait Talk Pivoting, Baking and Ambition

14 augusti 2023 | 44 min

Why Do Successful Artists Seem Miserable?

31 juli 2023 | 38 min

The Books That Helped Us Build Our Business

27 juli 2023 | 38 min

Caroline Calloway on Writing in Gremlin Mode, Tasty Treats, and Finishing Novels

18 juli 2023 | 64 min

Campbell Walker (aka Struthless) on Fearing Success and Working Through Creative Blocks

10 juli 2023 | 68 min

Our Favourite Modern Authors (and Why We Like Them)

30 juni 2023 | 35 min

Stop Limiting Yourself to One Launch per Creation!

15 juni 2023 | 28 min

Should we Romanticise the Creative Process?

25 maj 2023 | 26 min

Chat GPT: Friend or Foe?

24 april 2023 | 37 min

Creatives Don't Always Have to be Visible

17 april 2023 | 36 min

Backing Yourself, Optimism, and Self-Publishing

11 april 2023 | 43 min

Q&A: Indie Revolution, Moving Countries, Our Books, and More

2 april 2023 | 42 min

Repairing Your Relationship with Achievement and Hustle

26 mars 2023 | 41 min

Lisa Olivera on Why Making Art is Great for the World

12 mars 2023 | 60 min

How Much Work Do We Actually Do?

5 mars 2023 | 41 min

Is AI a Threat to Artists?

19 februari 2023 | 42 min

Should We Pay Artists a Guaranteed Income with Morgan Grace

12 februari 2023 | 34 min

How Not to Go Insane as a Full Time Content Creator with Millie Ford

5 februari 2023 | 71 min

You Have Bad Taste in Art

31 januari 2023 | 22 min

Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble, preview

23 januari 2023 | 18 min

Alchemizing grief, disappointment and anxiety into art with Leenadria Barros

5 januari 2023 | 51 min

Would You Rather

12 december 2022 | 28 min

Creating Playfully and Taming Anxiety with Lily Sais

5 december 2022 | 77 min

Tending To Your Nervous System and Avoiding Burnout with Gauri Yardi

27 november 2022 | 47 min

The Person Who Taught Me How to Journal

21 november 2022 | 40 min

Ranking Our Products by How Much Money They've Made Us

9 november 2022 | 26 min

Action Creates Information

31 oktober 2022 | 25 min

Selling Art Under Capitalism (and Other Random Topics).

23 oktober 2022 | 38 min

Should We Lie?

17 oktober 2022 | 33 min

What Do We Owe Our Audience?

9 oktober 2022 | 29 min

Queer Fiction and Debut Novels with Seth Haddon

3 oktober 2022 | 55 min

Choosing the Easy Path

26 september 2022 | 32 min

Sex and Artistry with MJ Unleashed

23 augusti 2022 | 44 min

Creating Outside of Routine/Reflections from Europe

21 augusti 2022 | 26 min

Creating Around Your Job

18 juli 2022 | 27 min

Rate it or Hate it

11 juli 2022 | 33 min

The Apprenticeship Phase

3 juli 2022 | 26 min

Creating Without Gatekeepers

26 juni 2022 | 44 min

Discovering Your Creative Rhythm

19 juni 2022 | 24 min

Creatives Will Lead the Work Revolution

5 juni 2022 | 28 min

Our Controversial Opinions

29 maj 2022 | 29 min

Extracts From Our Journals

23 maj 2022 | 36 min

How To Make Good Business Decisions

15 maj 2022 | 30 min

Learn What You Can Control

1 maj 2022 | 23 min

A Conversation with Jay Kristoff

25 april 2022 | 56 min

Lessons for Artists from a Crossfit Games Athlete with Natasha Kaz

10 april 2022 | 59 min

There's Room For All Of Us — Why Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter Is Good For Artists

4 april 2022 | 30 min

Artists Are Playing the Long Game

27 mars 2022 | 26 min

Coaching Session: On Feeling Hopeless

20 mars 2022 | 26 min

How Should We Respond to Failure?

13 mars 2022 | 33 min

Making Longterm Goals Feel Urgent

7 mars 2022 | 29 min

Your Business Questions Answered

28 februari 2022 | 50 min

Running A Creative Business

20 februari 2022 | 55 min

What If You Never "Make it"?

13 februari 2022 | 35 min

Stop Quitting Before Things Get Easy

31 januari 2022 | 24 min

Our Favourite Things of 2021

20 december 2021 | 44 min

Taking up Space with Sharon Walters.

6 december 2021 | 44 min

Should You Grit or Should You Quit?

28 november 2021 | 30 min

Raising Creative Children feat. Amie's dad!

21 november 2021 | 50 min

Putting Yourself Out There

16 november 2021 | 30 min

Stop Waiting For Your Big Break

7 november 2021 | 22 min

It's Time To Write preview

1 november 2021 | 16 min

Why Is Art Important?

24 oktober 2021 | 32 min

Everything about our private lives (Q&A4)

18 oktober 2021 | 31 min

Stop Making Excuses For Wanting to be Creative

10 oktober 2021 | 24 min

All Things Laziness with Dr Devon Price

3 oktober 2021 | 53 min

Do You Need a Big Social Media Following?

26 september 2021 | 31 min

WTF are NFTs and why should artists care?

19 september 2021 | 46 min

You Can Take Your Time

9 september 2021 | 29 min

Fear Of Success part 2

2 september 2021 | 39 min

The Rules Upheld By No One – Chapter One

30 augusti 2021 | 17 min

Amie's Writing Process

26 augusti 2021 | 33 min

Fear Of Success

19 augusti 2021 | 41 min

Memoir Writing and Traditional Publishing with Rebekah Campbell

11 augusti 2021 | 49 min

Q and A # 3

5 augusti 2021 | 32 min

Do We Need To Be Cautious of Ambition?

29 juli 2021 | 21 min

Should We Have Multiple Projects On The Go?

22 juli 2021 | 31 min

Amie’s Journey With Anxiety

16 juli 2021 | 25 min

Podcasting Could Be Your Creative Calling: An Interview with Sarah Werner

8 juli 2021 | 62 min

Do You Trust Yourself?

1 juli 2021 | 23 min

Treating Your Art as a Business

24 juni 2021 | 23 min

Why Shitty Art Matters

10 juni 2021 | 27 min

Structures and Routines for Creatives

3 juni 2021 | 25 min

Coming Up With Ideas

27 maj 2021 | 26 min

Q and A #2

12 maj 2021 | 27 min

You’re Doing Product Launches Wrong

5 maj 2021 | 32 min

Brooke Solis: Rest and Rebellion (Re-Release)

29 april 2021 | 40 min

Learning How To Look After Yourself

23 april 2021 | 25 min

The Power of Quiet Creators

16 april 2021 | 20 min

Q and A #1

8 april 2021 | 30 min

Discovering Your Own Pace

29 mars 2021 | 21 min

Comparison and Jealousy Live on Clubhouse

19 mars 2021 | 21 min

Why You Should Just Do The Bare Minimum

4 mars 2021 | 23 min

Ego And Creativity

25 februari 2021 | 21 min

Consistency: the Antidote to Hustle

19 februari 2021 | 27 min

Perfectionism and Race: A Conversation with Talise Burton

19 februari 2021 | 27 min

Getting Your Partner To Support Your Creative Journey

18 december 2020 | 22 min

Creating Over The Holidays

3 december 2020 | 27 min

Does Creating Have To Be Fun?

27 november 2020 | 20 min

Comparison and Jealousy

24 november 2020 | 31 min

Can You Learn to Be More Creative?

24 november 2020 | 21 min

Do You Need To Be On Social Media?

24 november 2020 | 51 min

Tips for NANOWRIMO

24 november 2020 | 25 min

Do You Need To Be Lucky To "Make It" As An Artist?

24 november 2020 | 32 min

Consistency: the Antidote to Hustle

8 oktober 2020 | 27 min

When Your Projects Aren't On Track

3 oktober 2020 | 16 min

Perfectionism is Making You Worse at Art

Senaste avsnitt

How Do We Deal with the Enshittification of the Internet?

Are More People Making a Living with Art Now than Ever?

The TikTok Book Deal Scandal plus Other Things That Annoy us.

Building Utopias: Why Artists Must Envision a Better Future

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan: How Creativity Trumps Anxiety

You Should Celebrate Your Own Art

WE NEED YOUR ART, STOP F***ING AROUND AND MAKE SOMETHING

How NOT to Finish Projects and Improve as an Artist

We Need Men's Art Too!

How to Make Heaps of Art

Can Ambition be Healthy?

How to Be Consistent When You Have Multiple Projects, How We Rest, and Artists' Money Issues (Q+A)

We Don't Want Jobs!

Artist, You're Allowed to Stay Small and Sustainable

What Can Artists Expect in 2025 (Last Prediction Will Shock You [Because it's So Not Any More Interesting Than Any Other Prediction and Just as Likely to be Wrong])?

How Artists should Set Intentions for the New Year

We Don't Want to Learn from Perfect People

Collaborating With Your Partner: How We Wrote Our Sci-fi Novel Together

What Does A Full Time Income Look Like for Artists? All About Our Finances

The 18 Artist Archetypes! Which One Are You?

Creativity 101: Getting Started and Improving as an Artist

Preparing for Success, Picking Yourself First, and Why We Need Your Art

Creativity 101: Perfectionism

Creativity 101: Procrastination: Striking the Balance Between Big Ambitions and Achievable Goals

Creativity 101: Journaling For Artists

Secrets of our Marriage

Elitism in the Arts

Should Artists Do Free Work?

Q&A Do we want kids, falling out of love with art, and fan fiction

How To Deal with a Slump

Are Books Dying Out?

Our Biggest Failures and What We've Learned From Them

There's Nothing Wrong with Making Money from Art

Perfectionism is Making You Worse at Art

Creative Would You Rather

How To Fight For Your Art with Author Emma Couette

Amie's sister Kirsty on starting a business at 21, motherhood and, parenting.

Do We Need to "Normalise the 9-5"?

Planning and Preparing When You'd Rather Not

Vulnerability over Comfort with Performance Coach Sion Cousins

Artists need to learn to say NO, with Augustine Charles

How We Got A Publishing Deal With Penguin

Losing followers, cluttered desks, patience, and working together (Q&A)

Our Favourite Things of 2023

Artists Don't Have to be in Pain

How to be an Artist on Social Media

Our Top 5 Tips for Creatives

Is Success Random?

Publishing Industry Deep Dive with Seth Haddon

Safely Increasing Your Output

Self regulation, stagnation, and shyness.

Seth Godin on why Artists help solve the world's biggest problems

Progress Isn't Linear

Kitty and Al Tait Talk Pivoting, Baking and Ambition

Why Do Successful Artists Seem Miserable?

The Books That Helped Us Build Our Business

Caroline Calloway on Writing in Gremlin Mode, Tasty Treats, and Finishing Novels

Campbell Walker (aka Struthless) on Fearing Success and Working Through Creative Blocks

Our Favourite Modern Authors (and Why We Like Them)

Stop Limiting Yourself to One Launch per Creation!

Should we Romanticise the Creative Process?

Chat GPT: Friend or Foe?

Creatives Don't Always Have to be Visible

Backing Yourself, Optimism, and Self-Publishing

Q&A: Indie Revolution, Moving Countries, Our Books, and More

Repairing Your Relationship with Achievement and Hustle

Lisa Olivera on Why Making Art is Great for the World

How Much Work Do We Actually Do?

Is AI a Threat to Artists?

Should We Pay Artists a Guaranteed Income with Morgan Grace

How Not to Go Insane as a Full Time Content Creator with Millie Ford

You Have Bad Taste in Art

Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble, preview

Alchemizing grief, disappointment and anxiety into art with Leenadria Barros

Would You Rather

Creating Playfully and Taming Anxiety with Lily Sais

Tending To Your Nervous System and Avoiding Burnout with Gauri Yardi

The Person Who Taught Me How to Journal