HOW Sway?: The Problem With "Don't Have a Plan B"

In the midst of searching for a job to support my art, bombarded by doubts and old attitude habits, and aching from my second COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, I attempt to find a way to believe the ideas about creativity that I want to believe.Content warning: discouragement, quitting, insulin, Rilke, job search, life not turning out like you planned, “Don’t have a Plan B,” second booster.If you think This Is Your Afterlife is worth the price of a nice coffee or a cheap meal (I do!), please consider joining my Patreon for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.Leave a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).Texts:"Austin Kleon on the Gift of Obscurity" (In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl podcast)Andre Gee: "Just Write"Subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Definitive Answers! And follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.---Transcript: This Is Your Afterlife on PodscribeMusic = Four Tet: "Two Thousand and Seventeen" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

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