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Welcome back to Diary of a Nobody.

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It's been four years and

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a lot has happened over that time. Weirdly,

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I stopped in December

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and a couple months later was

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COVID. My last was about

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me living in Texas, moved from

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Texas and now I moved back to Texas.

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So full circle, if you might say.

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I am gonna be changing up a lot of

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how this goes. I'm

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still doing those things, but I don't want

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to tie that into the podcast anymore.

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I might, put, a book and some

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other things in like the description to go check

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out. But yeah, I've, I'm out of

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the military, so I

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was medically retired, 2021,

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moved to LA for a couple of years,

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went to Icon Collective,

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did, been making music, released a lot

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of music since then. Joined

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what some would say web three

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and crypto twitter This

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is probably going to be on some sort

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of place for crypto

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like Probably zora

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or hopefully pods really depends.

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I don't fucking know. We'll see But

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yeah, i've just been Living

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I went through a little a lot

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of a depression. I definitely since

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the last time i've gained some weight A

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lot of weight. I think I was like 230 the last

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time I did a podcast. I'm like 280 right

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now. whatever on the weight

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stuff, but Yeah,

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that's enough recap honestly,

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so Let's

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Get into what

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I'm gonna be talking about today

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is overcoming creative block

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And you're probably like, Frankie,

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how do you know what a creative block is?

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I've been a creative my whole life, and

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so I know what it is, but I'm going to give you the

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Google definition, and the writer's going

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to break it down from there. The Google

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definition, a creative block is a period

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of time when a person experiences

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a lack of inspiration or motivation

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to create. Sounds

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like a lot of people. It can also

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be described as a barrier to inspiration

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or an inability to access one's

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internal creativity. Yeah.

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I feel like that is just something

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that people who are in the creative

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field they just go through. You have

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spurts of creativity and then.

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Obviously, once you run that creative

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fountain out, you gotta let

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the water build back up, like a water heater. If

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you sit in there too long and it's

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going, you're gonna let all the hot water out.

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So what do you do? You have to turn

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off the water, go do some

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other things, go about your day, take care

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of business, knock out other things you

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might want to do, and then boom, by the time

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you come back and ready for another

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shower, there's hot water

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again. That's what Going

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through a creative block is you have to

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Navigate your way around and it

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will come to you but

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Why do we get creative blocks? Some

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people might say stress, you know trends

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blah blah blah for me It's

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perfectionism. I want

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things to be Exact

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a lot of times. Lately I've been like,

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just forcing myself to not let things

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be like perfect and exact, but

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then there's a downside to that. It changes

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your brand voice. And

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so now you have things that are coming

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out that. Not up to

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par with the brand that you've been pushing

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out. And so now you have not

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a lot of brand cohesion.

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It makes lackluster, especially

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pairing it next to something else

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you've done. And so you just.

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Have to figure out which way to go about that.

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I'm not really one to follow trends.

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I will do what I think works for me.

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And if it just so happens that a trend has

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happened in that way, but

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I think that for me

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as a person and as a creative, it works,

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I will do that specific

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thing. So let's

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take web three, for example. I

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want to get my music to it into

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as many people's hands as possible. So

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I find

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ways to decide

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if it's a single and I'm going to put it

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on Spotify, I

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don't really think I need

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to make that an expensive

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piece of music. If someone

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can pay a on iTunes right

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now to listen to that song, paying

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3. In

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web three, I'm fine with that, but

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I have to figure out how to get that into people's

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hands. A lot of my following

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on web two platforms is

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still majority web two

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people. Web two meaning normal

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social media for people who are not. Crypto

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savvy web three is basically

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blockchain and crypto. Yes.

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For me, the easiest way to do that is

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put it as many places as I can. Lens

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is a really great place for that. I

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still have some thoughts about sound,

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but putting things on sound, the

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list goes on. That is just

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way that follow trend. If I'm quote

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unquote following the trends now, I do

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think that depression, And

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stress go hand in hand, but I think

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that also will put you into

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a major creative block. I've

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dealt with both. I still deal with

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both. I go to therapy. I have medication,

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which I

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don't know. Maybe the medication

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could be a problem of what's happening

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right now, but I

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feel like the

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best way to embrace the

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creative block is

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to take a break. Step away, say,

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okay, this is

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where I am. I've

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laid out what I want to do. Now

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I'm gonna go and

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I'm gonna

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go train for a marathon.

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That is today. 100 percent hypothetical

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and random pull out of the hat but

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doing something that isn't creative

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and making that like a side

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quest will then like why

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if you run for some people they run with no

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headphones i don't know how to do it but for me i

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run with headphones or airpods

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in but i will play music

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that has no words it allows me to just

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let my word mind go

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crazy like my creative mind but in

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word form go crazy Because

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if I'm, if I hear words in the song, you

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get the gist. And sometimes you just

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need to say, you know what?

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I'm not going to do anything. I'm

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going to go sit on this couch and watch

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my numbing Netflix because

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that is also a thing you

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could do. Now let's also

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unpack that. For me, I

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do that more. I

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go for walks and such still, but I'll

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go turn on Netflix.

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And because of the

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things that I like to watch, I will

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randomly come and make

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something, it spark something

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creative in my mind. So yeah,

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I think embracing that break

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will help you

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in any blockage or

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writer's block. Song

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block, creative block, whatever

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block it is. I've

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been doing, mainly because I'm getting forced

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because of therapy, I

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have been going

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and trying new

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things. I try to go

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and eat at a new place

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by myself, out to eat

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a lot. Going to

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museums. Going

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to like different

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workshops, listening to different

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podcasts. For me, I've

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been reading, like I said, I've been reading a lot

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lately. I read things all

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over the place, but no books

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have anything to do with music. There's design

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books. Like I'm in school for advertising.

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There's books on

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web three. There's books

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on Python, the coding

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language. None of this has anything to do

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with. Music per se, but

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they all help craft and mold

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my creative mind, which

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again, that's what you want to do. Another

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thing for me on lens, I

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created a one of one

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PFP collection. There's 111

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of them. They're called red eyes.

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The only, the two similarities

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that they have red eyes and it's collage

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style. Everything else is

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completely different. I use

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cutting of newspaper, some

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like hand drawing things, AI, Photoshop,

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you name like all that for each

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one. I do each one individually

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and it's just another way to get

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a different area

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of my creative mind to do

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something. And I think

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that also

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can help you when you're trying to do

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something. Yeah, I think you

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should also be someone who

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is creating without

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goals or expectations. Like

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you can have goals for, I

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want to run seven

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minute miles over five miles

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or over a 10K. But

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I think when you go and. Making

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music or making something creative

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with an end goal and not in

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that end goal not just be doing

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what can flow well Because

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sometimes you go in wanting to say

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if you go in saying I want to make a full

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song today And you can't

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get past one verse Is

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that really a failure? I

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don't think so. Are you really blocked

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creatively? I think you're blocked

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by expectation. And

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that's okay. Sometimes

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Those unfinished

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songs you have to step away from, like I

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said, you might step away and

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go to a museum, bump into someone,

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have a conversation, and somehow

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that conversation is exactly

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what ties to the song you're writing.

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I also would say you

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should start collaborating, if you're not collaborating,

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and you don't have to collaborate on trying

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to finish a project. You could just say

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Hey, can we just have a conversation

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for 30 minutes and just shoot

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ideas back and forth, throw darts

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at a dart board and work out

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our creative minds off of each other

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and see how that goes. Because

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you never know. You could say something to be like, Oh

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yeah, you should do this and this. And then you'd be

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like, Oh, that's actually cool. I can then

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add this and that. And then vice

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versa. You say that same thing to the other person. You

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basically have someone to bounce ideas off

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of. You should have dedicated

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time set out. Where you're like,

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Alright, I'm gonna use this time

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to see what flows out. To see what I

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can create. To see what

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comes about. And

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then if you have that set time

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consistently over a long period of time,

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your brain will slowly start

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morphing into that timeframe

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and be like, all right, we have this three hour

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block and it just starts, it

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becomes second nature and it starts

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flowing a lot easier and

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it makes it to where you

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don't feel, you still don't have expectation,

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but you have a

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Secured ground

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play in if that makes sense

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in a time frame to where you're like, all

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I have this amount of time every

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day No matter what happens

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Good or bad. This is the time

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what happens in there will be written

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down recorded

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We can edit it at a different time

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in a different block of time that you have

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And it doesn't have to be like Three

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hours every day no matter what

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it could be Every Monday

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because it's Monday. I only want to do

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an hour Tuesdays

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I don't want to do anything creative.

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I want to do technical things. So I want to go edit

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this that any other Wednesday's

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hump day middle of the week

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third day of the week. Let's just say number three

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and do three hours Friday's

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a technical day just in case I'm

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about to go out With the boys,

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the girls, the friends,

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the thems, whatever. And

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you're just like, I just want to do some technical

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things. I don't want to really

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have to turn my brain on just mind numbing

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edits that we're going to be easy

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to edit and everything. And

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then leave Saturday and Sunday

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open to the ear just in case

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you're traveling, doing something different.

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Once you get into that routine, you're like, all

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right, wake up Monday, do

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my morning routine this

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night and the other go

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do my little hour of creativity

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exercises or whatever you have

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going and continue

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on and just don't make it a

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strict one. Some Mondays you might

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be like, Oh, I'm really feeling it today and just

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have some buffer times and

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If you don't do a full three hours on Wednesday,

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be like, okay, I'm

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not going to be doing three hours today. And

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again, that's okay. And

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you have to be okay doing

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things in a non traditional

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way, especially when

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it comes to creativity and the creative

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field, because There

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is no traditional way of anything,

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even if there's traditional

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ways of the end goal,

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but the way to get to that

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end goal and to the end product,

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there's no one way. There's no

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one way to do a lot of things,

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but when it comes to creative things,

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Getting to the end product can be done

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many different ways and so you have

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to be Easy

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on yourself and not be too

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Stressed because then

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you could go and

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Get right back into a creative rut

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and it could fall into

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the depression Remember celebrate small

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victories Like I said, even if you

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only get 30 minutes in and you just

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let's say You did 30 minutes

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and you wrote a whole song, made

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a melody, and this

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and that. Even though it was only, you're like, dang,

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I only did 30 minutes though. You wrote

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a whole song though in 30 minutes

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and made a melody. And

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even if you took 3 hours

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and you got a verse

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down, you

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got a verse down though. And

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many people However

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you want to put it, can't even

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make a verse in a week. And you got

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it done in a three hour time span.

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So you have to take what

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you can get and whenever you get it, it's

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a victory. Even if you

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can't get anything done or

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put down the

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victory is that you took the time to try

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to do it. And yeah, so

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I want everyone. Somebody,

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nobody, whoever you are, to

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go, take the time,

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reevaluate, don't

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get too upset about

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things. So yeah, that's

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all. You got a creative block.

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We're trying to Lower our

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causes. Get rid of some of the perfectionism,

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get rid of some of the stress if possible.

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Don't follow too many trends. Cause

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if you get into the hopping on

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trends, you're going to feel burnt

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out. And when you feel burnt out, you

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get some of that block in you go

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on and do some walks, do

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little side quests of

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either museums or even other creative

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tasks. Experiment,

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doing different things, don't set

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hard, rigid goals or expectations.

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Just go and bump your head,

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have fun, and remember

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that at the end of the day, you're

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choosing a field that doesn't

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require you to have. a

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traditional nine to five. Some

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people treat it like a nine to five, but

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a lot of the people that treat it like a nine to

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five also have those creative

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blocks and creative ruts. Sometimes

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they're forcing it and you can tell.

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And yeah, I think that's going to be it. We

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talked about a lot today. I gave

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you a good example. A good amount of examples

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from my side my

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yeah, you'll be able to find me Everywhere

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at this point i'm going to be posting

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a lot more My web two

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handles are going to be at frankie

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styles with two s's at the

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end If it's a web

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three, it's just frankie styles

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Without the extra s at the end

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Yeah, I want to say thank you guys.

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It's going to be You A slow

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come back, but we'll do

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what we can. I'm going to be

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trying my hard and

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going to be doing some guests. Actually, I'm

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going to be doing different topics

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in tech, music, lifestyle,

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fashion, all kinds of things. I'm trying to

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take Diary of Nobody and make it

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into An entire media brand

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it's possible that there

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will be a bunch of new

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things happening. I know it's

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episode 11 and four years

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technically so um it'll

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be slow, but yeah, thank

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you for listening and I

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will see you guys next week