LIA Cast 119 - Resolving Your Goals System

Navigating the topic minefield of goal setting on the LIA Cast!

We find lots of advice and articles on setting and meeting goals this time of year. Everyone has a different take on the topic, which suggests just how dicey and complex a subject it is. How do you define your goals, and what's the best way to commit to them? Is it simply a willpower thing? Do you employ a "carrot and stick" approach? Is there a smartphone app that can nag you into making small steps toward your goals?

Rob and Jerzy dig at this topic in traditional Lean Into Art fashion. How does our thinking change when we back up and examine what the motivations are behind the goals we choose? Is there any benefit to looking at goals less as a desired plateau and more of a system or practice?

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LIA Cast 118 - Reading, Watching, Playing

Talking about reading, watching, and playing on the LIA Cast!

After a season of creative challenges we find ourselves in the season of the holidays. This is a time for relaxing, connecting with loved ones, and having fun! In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast we explore in a similar spirit by discussing what we're reading, watching, and playing. What are we making time for? What are we responding to? What do we hope to make more time for, and why?

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LIA Cast 117 - Reflecting on the Art SoundOff Challenge

Capturing our reflections on the Art SoundOff Challenge on the LIA Cast!

We've just completed the inaugural Art SoundOff, where Rob and Jerzy challenged each other to record a journal microcast every day during the month of November, 2014. We opened the challenge to the public, and were happy to see a number of you play along.

Now that we're done, it's time for reflection. How are we different after this? What did we discover about ourselves or our work? How will this experience change our future endeavors? Did we find any new things to hope for in our work or in the community surrounding it?

Join us for another live stream of the Lean Into Art Cast where we'll reflect on our own experiences in the Art SoundOff Challenge. We'll also read some of the reflections shared by other participants.

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LIA Cast 116 - Collaborating on Your Project

Talking about working out the perfect collaboration on the LIA Cast!

As a creative person you'll find yourself working with others at some point, whether it's putting together an event, tabling at a convention with friends, making a comic book together, or launching a podcast. How do you manage expectation and establish roles to make the joint project happen? How do you deal with friction when it occurs? 

Join us for an exploration on how empathy and an evidence-based approach can make a collaboration not only run smoothly, but leave you with a bucket-load of newfound skills.

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LIA Cast 115 - Knowledge Curation

Talking about researching, leveling up skills, learning new skills, and information hoarding on the LIA Cast!

When you're in school, learning and leveling up are often very directed activities with relative clarity in their intended outcomes. But when you're on your own in your art explorations, finding the resources to level up, and defining the outcome in which you're interested, can be jobs in and of themselves. 

How do you know whether or not you're ignorant on a topic or skill?  How do you find the resources you need to broaden your knowledge or strengthen your skills?  How do you curate and refine this information into something useful?

Join us for a discussion on researching and curating knowledge to improve our art. Together we explore the distinctions between the Autodidact, the Workflow-Hacker, and the Adaptive Expert For Hire and how each of them might leverage various online and offline tools to find, collect, and refine information that can assist with shipping your art projects.

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