Season 1 – MC14: Dark Side of the Hustle

What this episode covers

Welcome to the Mindful 15: A short monthly episode (15 minutes or less) where I step out of the usual format and fly solo, sharing personal insights on self awareness and mindset development from my own journey as a creative entrepreneur. In this episode, I’m diving deeper into the dark side of the hustle. That is to say, I’m diving deeper into the elements of the creative journey that entrepreneurs and artists don’t talk about often enough. Link Love The dark side of the hustle The rough edges of failure Stop Waiting to Live: Radically Reclaim Your Aliveness Now – Jonathan Mead How To Waste Time Properly – Greg Beato In this Episode * Strategic vulnerability – why we don’t discuss the reasons we fall apart * Why it’s okay to want to let go of being the model hustler and just be in the moment. * Most experts in this internet age only talk about the good parts: The book ends and the polished steps required to make it to the finish line. * We talk about failure at a purely conceptual level – it’s a novel idea, but few of us are willing to really expose why we failed, what happened and the truth of what failure looks (and feels) like in real life. * My struggles with perfectionism and shipping projects and what that as taught me about failure. * Why an unrealistic picture of how much we’ll actually struggle on this journey is flat out dangerous, and why we need to focus less on boxing up the creative process for self gain and more on painting realistic pictures of what you actually need to navigate the uncertainty. * The intangibles you really need = self awareness, trust, confidence. These intangibles are not gained by following a set of predetermined steps. They’re cultivated through daily practice and by connecting on a much deeper level to the purpose that drives your work. * Why you should get down and dirty with your core self through reflection. Why are you hustling? What does success look like outside of profitability, marketability and all of the common benchmarks we measure against? * Why we need trust, not pixie dust (and to stop trying to engineer away all our flaws and embrace the gifts that we already have). * The danger of placing too much faith in external solutions and ignoring our own intuition. * Why I’m not remotely attached to this mindless definition of hard work that is “hustle at all costs” * Outcome tunnel vision and the danger of not being present. * Why there is a fine line between opportunity and obsession (there is always more to be done, more to be changed, more to improve). * Why the hustle doesn’t necessarily make you tougher, more determined, grittier than the rest. It just makes you more tired, less effective and out of alignment in the long term. * Meeting our fears and struggles with a battering ram and calvary charge isn’t the only way. * Why it’s not always about overcoming, it’s about coexisting * Why it’s not what or how, it’s why we do it.   Thanks for listening! If you can please take a moment to subscribe and leave an honest rating and review of the show on iTunes, it will help improve our ranking and discoverability so that we can reach more people. Subscribe on iTunes  

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