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Welcome creatives! These are discussions, thoughts, case studies, interviews, and lessons about how our creativity relates to life. The host, Mr Benja, is a former video game programmer / designer for Rockstar Games, Sony Santa Monica, The 3DO Company, and others, as well as a fine artist. -- Be sure to check out the website for more.
Be remarkable.
Or GTFO, get the, that is the only
option you have, that is the only option.
If you're thinking about doing anything,
you're thinking about trying anything,
you're thinking about changing anything,
you're thinking about making the world
move, you're thinking about pushing
the needle forward, you're thinking
about making a mark on somebody, you're
thinking about improving your environment.
In reality, you have to be
remarkable or don't even try.
That's your only option.
And that's what you've got to deal with.
And we're talking about this in the
creative sense, because we are creatives
and we create the environment around
us, the world that we live in and the
situation that we find ourselves facing.
This is all created by us.
We are builders.
We are artists.
We are artisans.
We are creators and creatives all alike.
And that is what creation and
creativity is all about making change.
And if you think about it, if
you make no change, then no one's
going to say anything and you are,
by definition, not remarkable.
Gonna get into that a little deep
today, or maybe not too deep because
it's late and I don't feel like
being here, but I'm here anyway.
That's what we're going to talk about
today on Creativity Threads Life.
I am your host, Mr.
Benja.
Thank you for joining me.
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Thank yous all around.
And we're going to keep doing this
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but if you are there, thank you.
So today I will be discussing
this concept of being remarkable.
So, I know you guys don't like
talking about resolutions.
I figured that out.
No one's really responded
to my resolution talk.
And that's a shame.
Because it's not about the new year,
it's not about January 1st, it's
not about, you know, some baby and
some ball dropping and some old man.
It's not about all that.
It's about you resolving to make a change.
But I wanted to step back from
that a little bit because it
wasn't getting the right reaction.
But the message is still sound.
And one thing that I did want to
make sure that I touched upon was
this idea of being remarkable.
And I have a whole concept on this
and I'll, I'll sell it to you later.
I'll package it up and put it out.
But this concept of a resolution that
is remarkable, a remarkable resolution.
You heard it here first.
No matter what you're trying to do,
no matter what you're thinking about
instituting, no matter what you think
about trying to accomplish, does it
really matter if it's not remarkable?
And I don't mean necessarily
people talking about it
or people recognizing you.
I mean, Literally, is what you're
doing going to cause a remark?
Is it strong enough of a
resolution that it causes a mark?
Is it strong enough of a change
that you're bringing that you're
going to make somebody remark on it?
Why would you worry about
what anybody else thinks?
You don't.
Let's get that out of your head first.
What I'm saying is And I'll
illustrate it with the story.
Years ago, I decided that I wanted
to really get into resolution.
So I started doing these things and
I started realizing along the way
I was, I would change my process.
I would change what I was thinking about.
I would alter course
and that's fine to do.
I break out the clipboard and start
noticing what was being updated,
what wasn't, what was working,
what needed to be changed, what
should stay the same, et cetera.
And what I came to find is that.
People weren't really checking
for what I was talking about.
They're like, eh, whatever.
He's just saying stuff.
So I stopped saying things
and I was like, you know what?
I'm not going to say anything to
people because they don't understand
who I am, where I'm coming from,
what I'm about, what I'm doing.
They don't really get it.
They're not me.
So what I talk about isn't really going
over the way that I want them it to, and
they're responding in a way that's frankly
getting in the way of my own progress.
So let me just stop telling
people about my resolutions.
This is the initial impetus for this.
I don't care if you
follow resolutions or not.
This is still good information.
Follow along.
So I stopped telling
people my resolutions.
Now what that did is it freed me up to
work on myself without worrying about it.
charting my progress for other
people's benefit or recognition.
I could just do my thing.
And I was, I was happy about that.
Sometimes it worked out right.
Sometimes it didn't.
And I was starting to learn and
experiment and understand why things
were happening the way they were.
But as I was going along, I was
making the resolve building the,
my resolute nature to do things.
And what I noticed is that the things
that I was really heartfelt about,
the things that I really strongly
held on to, those things made enough
of a change in me, and I totally
wasn't worried about anybody else.
Totally wasn't worried about anything.
What I noticed is that people would stop
at some point and say, you know what?
You've gotten a little slimmer
and I'm like, you're damn right.
Yes, I have.
Some people would stop me and
say, Hey, I like your shoes.
Cause I started worrying a little
more about fashion at some point.
And I was like, you're damn right.
Those are nice shoes.
Thank you.
Simple things.
More hair, more hair differently.
Some people would say, you know what?
I like your hair.
It's like, cool.
That's great.
What I started noticing though
in all this is that people were
not responding to me necessarily.
They're responding to an energy that I
put out that was changing the environment.
And I just happened to be the
focal point for that expression.
And it got me to realize this.
If I'm really doing something, if I'm
really putting that energy out there,
if I'm really making that change, If
I'm really affecting things the way I
think, then I will, by nature, change
my environment in such a way that it
communicates something to the world.
It communicates something.
The world makes a remark.
The world has responded in
a way that is communicated.
That is what I mean by remarkable.
If you're doing something and it's
worth anything, the environment will
respond with some sort of communication.
What am I talking about?
Listen, if you don't pay your bills,
companies will communicate with you.
If you don't pay your taxes, the U.
S.
government and the IRS
will communicate with you.
And the world can respond
in a variety of ways.
Your environment is going to communicate
with you in many different ways.
But this is the key point.
Your remarkability, or the remarkability
of your effort, your energy, your
passion, is literally a condition that
is attained When the world is forced
to communicate on your situation.
This is about getting the people going.
This is about shaking things up
quite literally agitating energies.
How does this happen?
How does it play out?
Tangible reactions we're talking about.
If you start dressing more nicely.
If you, if you come in with a
different car, if you start spending
more money on expensive things,
people are going to assume you have
money, and then people might be
more inclined to ask you for help.
It's like, nobody asked me for
help before, now all of a sudden
you're asking me for help?
Yes, that's a remark on your changes.
And this isn't always
for the positive either.
A lot of times this happens in the
negative direction, and we think it's bad.
But let's not get it twisted.
If you're doing great at work,
people might stop talking to you.
They may pull back their
communication from you.
They may have less to say to you, but
nevertheless, that's communication.
Your work is so remarkable.
They stopped talking to you.
And I'll give some examples.
I was, I was on a project, a video game.
I was on a video game project and
I was working on this feature.
And I asked, listen, I need
some time for this feature.
I'm going to be working on this feature.
It's going to be awesome.
I won't mention the
company or the feature.
I don't want to incriminate anybody,
but I was working on this feature
and said, Hey, listen, I'm going
to be working on this feature.
And they're like, sure, man, whatever.
They didn't care.
So I was like, oh, you
don't care about my feature.
I see that you're not.
Communicating care back to me.
All right, whatever.
I'll work on it.
So, and that's a side point.
The remarkability shouldn't
be about what you say.
It should be about the change
that you make in the world.
I'm not talking about speaking.
I'm not talking about writing.
I'm not talking about acting.
Just in general, if your
energy causes a response.
So don't try to limit it to one
certain type of energy output.
Whatever you're trying to output.
Anyway, working on this project.
Working on this feature for this project.
No one says anything about it.
I keep on pushing it.
I keep on just, I just get into the zone.
I stop worrying about what people think.
I stop worrying about
the progress reports.
I stop worrying about X, Y, and Z.
I'm like, listen, I'm in
the zone with this thing.
I'm making good progress.
I don't care what people say.
I will listen.
I will try to incorporate what you say,
but I'm just working on my own thing.
I'm not looking for a response.
I really wasn't looking
for a response at the time.
And I wasn't, I especially
wasn't asking or talking to
people to try and get a response.
Like I wasn't coming up, Hey, what
do you think about this feature?
No, I was just doing it.
And the project shipped with the
feature and there wasn't too much
said about the feature in particular.
And then I started seeing
the reviews online.
I started watching people were
saying in the forums, I started
looking around and hearing what the
magazines had mentioned about it.
They said, you know what we like.
The gameplay.
I was a gameplay programmer.
We like the gameplay.
We like how this is playing out.
We like this feeling.
And we'd specifically like
to mention this feature.
It's genius.
It's incredible.
It makes the game great.
I heard that once and was like, Oh, Oh,
someone liked the feature, but no one
told me, no one really mentioned it.
Nobody brought it up.
They may have asked for a few
tweaks here and there, but
nobody brought that feature up.
And this happened multiple times.
People kept telling me, yes, I, this
is, this is good, but these weren't
the people I was working with.
These were other outside people.
I didn't ask for their opinion.
It came to me.
I found it online.
I found it in the magazines.
I found it in the real world.
I found it in playtest afterwards.
People were saying, I like this thing.
It is good.
I'm glad it's in the game.
In fact, it's so good, so unique, so
current, so relevant, so engaging.
And it's something I wanted that I
didn't even know that I want that
I'm going to just speak about it.
Because it's compelled me to do
so because it's that remarkable.
It's so remarkable, I had to remark on it.
That turned a switch in my head.
And there was a series of steps
going, leading up to this and
that had happened afterward.
That got me on this idea of, if I really
want to do something, I should be able
to see my change, my work, my effort,
my energy reflected in the world.
The world's gonna remark on this thing.
Otherwise, GT.
F O H, if you will.
How about another one?
I started getting good sleep and
I was less cranky in the morning.
I started being sure to
say good morning to people.
I wasn't doing this in
an effort to do anything.
I wanted to make that
change within myself.
After a while, I noticed people
would start replying, Hey man,
how's it going in the morning?
If I forgot to say it to them, I
noticed that people were more likely
to walk up to me and start talking.
I noticed people were more open with me.
I was like, holy crap, I got
better sleep and decided to be a
little friendlier in the morning.
And this is what happens.
Yes.
The world had changed
according to what I did.
The world was communicating itself to me.
I literally put an energy out and
the world reflected it back at me.
You've heard this before, but I'm telling
you it's real and it's remarkable.
And then, let's think about
this one, Grand Theft Auto 3.
For those of you who remember, it
came out, nobody was really talking
about it, it was just another
PlayStation 2 game amongst many.
A few people knew about GTA 2, but
nobody really talked about it in mass.
But GTA 3 came out, next thing
you know, everybody's talking.
I remember playing it with a
group of friends and we're all
sitting down, we load the game up.
There was no intro, setting
up all your buttons.
Press start, no selection,
no options menu.
It literally loaded in, showed you some
images and dropped you right in the game.
You know what people did?
They said, Hey, wait a minute.
We're just starting in the game.
Oh, we're started now.
Oh, the game is on.
It literally just puts you in the game.
And people remarked on that.
They were like, I didn't
know you could do that.
I didn't know you could have a game
without a, without the start screen, the
splash screen, the intro and all that.
It was remarkable.
You hear about something happening on
the news and you tell somebody about it.
That news event was remarkable.
If somebody is so funky at work that
you have to tell them or somebody
else, their funk is remarkable.
And that's a negative kind of remarkable.
In case you were wondering
Grand Theft Auto three was recognized for
its sheer brilliance in, in a lot of, in a
lot of factors that it just came together
in such an awesome way that you had, you
had no choice, but to remark about it.
Anytime you brought up another game, Grand
Theft Auto's presence was so remarkable
that you had to bring up Grand Theft Auto.
So when people were talking about
Call of Duty, they're like, yeah, you
know, it'd be great if Call of Duty
had these features like GTA 3 had,
or yeah, this new Zelda game is great.
I wonder if they could really
go open world like GTA 3 did.
It's like, oh man, I really
like this sports game.
I wonder if they could add
some components of GTA 3.
Like, what are you talking about?
It's a sports game.
Why would it have any components of GTA 3?
I don't know, man.
I'm just saying GTA 3 was so remarkable.
I had to add it into the conversation.
That's how powerful the remarkability was.
I've been to a lot of art shows,
been in a lot of art shows.
One thing is when you come out, when
you're in that art show, is anyone
coming by your art, looking at what
you're doing, saying, Hey, I had to
come over here and see this for myself.
I had to actually communicate
with you verbally and by the
act of my presence being here.
Because somebody remarked on it.
Somebody said, you know what?
That's so good.
Or that's so interesting, or that's
so current, relevant, engaging,
or desired that they spoke to me
and told me to come all the way
over here and look at your art.
That's how remarkable your art was.
I had to come over and see it.
Somebody sent me over here.
Is your business card so good?
That somebody looks at it and says,
this is what I'm interested in.
I'm going to act on this.
I'm going to communicate with
my action is what you're doing.
Putting any change into the real world.
Another example, Apple vision pro,
not too many people were talking
about the Apple vision pro though.
Okay.
This sounds cool.
This sounds interesting, but you know
what they were marked on the price.
Holy crap.
$4,000, we're paying $4,000 for this.
And then that made them stop and either
complain about Apple, which is one kind
of remarking or look into it to see what
Apple was doing that made it cost $4,000.
They're Oh, oh, oh, it does this.
Oh, it does that too.
And has that a bit of an overkill.
I wonder what Zuckerberg's doing.
Yeah, that's cool.
With the, you know, meta quest
and, but is it remarkable?
Am I, am I talking about that?
Not as much.
Even if it's just a price tag,
they're going to talk about it.
And then people are talking about the
fact that it's sold out at that price tag.
This is the definition of buzz.
Once again, buzz is that vibration.
If you can shake up things, if you
can cause energy to vibrate at such a
level that you can hear its effect in
the real world, coming back to you,
that's remarkable is what you're doing.
Remarkable.
Does anyone have anything to
say about anything you're doing?
If you're just doing what
everybody else is doing, your
status quo, that's not remarkable.
It's like, what'd you do today?
Well, I, I went into work and I, I
did work just like everybody else.
Oh, so you're an employee.
Okay.
Now, if it's, if it's a difficult
job, somebody may say, you know what?
He does a difficult job.
That's, he has a hard job.
Okay.
If you're working at a very interesting
company, they may say, Oh, that he
works at interesting company motors.
They're very interesting.
It's like, Oh, okay.
That might be remarkable in itself.
Like when I told people I worked
for rockstar games, that was
a remarkable fact about me.
Oh, Oh really?
Yeah.
I like their games.
I, uh, I played that table
tennis game, really fun stuff.
And they'd remark to me
another example.
And this is even a personal
example or even social examples.
When I was, when I was younger, I had a,
uh, I was in the process of building a
relationship with this young lady in the
process of building a relationship, right?
Getting to know her, talking to her
more, hanging out more, just interacting
in general to see where it would go.
And one thing people communicated
to me over this process.
As I was putting my energy out, people
remarked to me, like, you know what?
I don't believe you can get away with it.
Get away with what?
And they'd say, no, no, you, I'm
curious of how you're getting
away with treating her like that.
Like, what do you mean?
It's like, nah, you, you make a joke
and she'll, she'll, she'd go off on
people, but you, she's okay with it.
I'm like, oh.
I like joking with everybody.
It's like, yeah, yeah, I know.
I know you like to joke and play around
and you know, you just, you're cool.
You're not being mean or anything, but
she has a very different response with
you than she does with other people.
And I was like, Oh really?
I'm causing an effect
out in the real world.
I couldn't tell.
Because she didn't say anything to me.
I was just doing my thing.
We were just talking.
So this became an interesting point
because this is one of those second
degree levels of remarkability.
Where the thing that I'm trying
to affect isn't necessarily
communicating with me directly or
not in a way that I could notice.
But somebody else, not even that
person, somebody else was so
affected by me affecting that
person that they had to come and
tell me, like, Hey, you know what?
Nobody has the kinds of interactions
with that person that you do.
Nobody gets the kind of treatment
from that person that you do.
You know what they were telling me?
I was remarkable.
And let me tell you, there are places
in your life where you're remarkable.
And you may not even know it.
You may be talking too much to even hear
yourself, or you may be talking too much
to even hear what the world is trying
to say to you, let alone hear yourself.
What you've been working on, what
you've been creating, what you've
been building, should be causing
a tangible reaction of some sort.
So think about it.
When you write down your goal, When
you write down your resolution,
I said I wouldn't talk about
resolutions, but here I am again.
When you said you were going to do
these things, make these changes,
push this forward, you weren't
saying, I'm going to go to the gym.
Why?
What are people going to remark?
They go to the gym all the time.
Do you care?
You don't even care about that.
You don't care that someone says
he goes to the gym all the time, or
he shows up at church all the time.
Is that what you care about?
When you sit down and think about
making your resolve, making your way
forward, Making that change in the world.
What do you actually want the
world to communicate back?
What communicates your intention properly?
Someone saying that you've lost weight or
even your own body telling you that, Hey,
listen, I can run up the steps just fine.
And I'm not winded.
Your body will communicate back to you,
whether you're doing the right thing.
That's what you should resolve
to have a remarkable experience.
Is your family, does your family get up
and run to hug you when you come home?
Or are they just like, eh, whatever.
You may want to resolve to change that.
You don't need to tell
them, Oh, I feel bad at you.
You might just need to do it.
You might need to explain
some of your actions.
Like, hey, listen, I'm
trying to accomplish this.
But what you're really looking for.
is that remarkable response
where someone actually says,
Hey, listen, I bought you this.
I bought you this thing because I see
you're working hard and I want to support.
Wow.
That is a remarkable reaction.
Or, Hey, I noticed this.
I want to put you in
touch with these people.
Wow.
That is a remarkable reaction.
Or they know that you
don't like certain things.
Or that certain things are getting
in the way of your progress.
So you come in one day, and you
see that everything is gone.
You're like, hey, where's the
stuff that used to bother me?
And they're like, hey, you know what?
We moved that out of the way because
we saw that you were in the zone.
We saw your energy going this way.
They may not say it verbally, but you look
around and it's like, hey, what happened?
It's like, well, we moved X, Y, and Z.
And you might think to yourself,
that's a remarkable reaction.
I did that.
Even if you didn't do it,
take the credit anyway.
Even if it just happened by chance,
your energy is aligning with that.
Take the credit.
Be like, boom, that's remarkable.
We're going in the right direction here.
We're happy.
So you can sit around and say,
say dumb shit to yourself all day.
But what is the world, your body,
your feelings, your expressions,
the people, the actual environment?
What is that saying to
journaling practice.
When you start writing down and
recording what's happened, what's
going on, you start realizing, Oh, the
world is changing based on my energy.
The world's either aligning with
me or going out of alignment
with me in a lot of cases.
So where is your alignment?
Because when you align with the right
energies, you start to resonate.
Your energy resonates with the
energy that's out there already.
And what happens when two
energy waves resonate?
They harmonize.
They harmonize and create a new energy,
a new sound, something that reverberates
in the universe, in the environment.
Basically what I'm saying is if you
put certain energies out, you will hear
the effects of them coming back to you.
And that is a good thing.
Supposing you're looking
for the good resonation.
And hey, what if nobody remarks?
What if nobody says anything?
I mean, you know what, you know what it
means when you get a negative response.
You're like, okay, I can understand
that and I can use it for my purposes.
Change direction or keep
going in that direction.
Or I can look for the positive resonance.
The things that remark positively.
So somebody might say
something, somebody might not.
Either way, there's a positive
or a negative that you see.
And what I mean by not, I mean they're
holding back from saying anything.
I don't mean they're just silent.
I mean they're holding
back from saying something.
Like if you say something really
provocative and nobody responds, then
you know you may have said something
so provocative that it's outside their
realm of understanding or response.
Is that where you want to stop?
Maybe.
I Propose to you that the worst
type of response that you can get,
the worst type of remark that you
can get is not a remark at all.
Where you're inconsequential.
If somebody unfollows you, then
you know that they've fallen out of
alignment with whatever you're doing.
And that could be a good thing.
Let's say someone stops, someone stops
inviting you out to late night parties.
Why?
Because you don't drink, you, you're,
you're a fuddy duddy now, you're no
fun, that may be what you want actually.
You may actually want a negative response.
Not like a bad response, but
somebody negating your energy.
You may actually want that
when they step away from you.
So what I'm saying is you want
a response in some direction.
And the worst kind of
response is the null response.
For those of my math followers, there's
positive, negative, and there's,
you know, you have numbers, right?
But then there's the null response where
it's just, is there, there's just nothing.
Not even a count of zero.
It's just not available.
You don't want non responses.
The energy, if you put energy out, the
idea is that you're supposed to use that
energy to move something in the world.
You might make yourself feel a little
better and that might be enough to put
out your energy, but that's what energy
is for, to make a change in the world.
It's to move something.
And if you're moving nothing,
then what are you really doing?
And then you need to reconsider
what you're trying to change.
Do you need to do more of the same thing?
You may just need to keep chipping
away at it until something happens.
You may just need to keep pushing,
persevere until something happens.
You may just need to
keep on grinding away.
You may need to just keep on sanding
down that surface until it's smooth.
You may just need to keep going,
but if you've got a situation where
you're doing things and nothing seems
to be changing, you need to find a
way to get a remark from something
from yourself, somebody else from
the world, from the physics of life.
From your bank account, from your
waistline, from your wellbeing,
from your sense of peace, you need
to get a response from somebody,
something, some entity out there.
And that is what it
means to be remarkable.
So you can make things more intense.
Make things a little hotter, or
you can do more of the same thing.
Sometimes that's, they're both the same.
What I mean is, for example,
I'm here doing podcasts.
Part of what I'm doing is trying to make
a better podcast, and part of what I'm
doing is trying to podcast more often.
That's why you see me most weeknights.
So it's a two fold attack right there.
The quantity and the
quality are improving.
And maybe people won't say it to me,
but they'll say it to somebody else.
Hey, listen, that guy, he's consistent.
He always puts out good stuff.
If you don't know, ask somebody,
you might have to start asking or
maybe not directly asking because
you don't want to tell people exactly
what you're doing, but say, Hey,
what do you think about this?
Or start getting, or start
getting information from people.
Without necessarily asking like once
again, we don't want to come up and say
hey, how do you think this is going?
You don't care what they think or what
they're going to say because it'll
probably be a lie They'll probably be just
telling you something to make you go away
or make you feel better or make themselves
feel better Which is why a lot of people
make you feel better so they can feel
better about feeling better You see how
that goes so you don't want to ask them
directly if you're trying to be remarkable
And you want to get
information about that.
Let's say back to the club example,
you know, you go out with all your
friends and they stop wanting to go
out with you because you're approved.
Now you're a fuddy duddy.
You don't like to drink.
You don't do drugs with them.
You don't, um, you know, you don't
steal money from the tip jar.
You're not like them anymore.
You've outgrown whatever nonsense you
were into during your club nights.
You're just not into it, right?
But no one's told you this and
you can't tell if you're really
getting the way you want to be.
It's like, okay, am I
really getting there?
How can I ask a question?
You might say, Hey guys, listen, is
there anything going on this week?
Now, if they say, Hey, you should
come out to the club with us.
Then your message about being a different
person might not be strong enough.
But if you say, Hey guys,
what's going on this week?
And they all kind of, eh, you
know, I was thinking about, uh,
buying some new shoes this week.
Uh, it's thinking about this.
If they don't bring up the club, if
they don't bring up going out late,
then you've got a reaction from them.
They no longer think it's worth it or part
of their idea to try to spin you on this
because they just know it's not worth it.
You can probably, you can see
this happen with people who, who
weren't into the church and all of
a sudden they got into the church.
Or going the other way, if you
leave a situation and they're so
sad that they try to get you back.
It's like, hey man, man,
listen, we really miss you, man.
Can you come back?
It's like, okay, I got a little
emotional response from them.
They want me to come back and
they know I'm not likely to.
What I'm saying is pull that
response out of people, pull that
response out of the universe.
That's the only way you're
going to really know.
Maybe it's, maybe it
takes more than one time.
Maybe you need to do it for
a week, a month, a year.
Seth Godin said he worked on his
podcast and I mean his blog for years.
And suddenly he became the person that.
wrote a blog post every day.
So now, it's stuck with him.
And that's all people think
about when they think of him.
They think, oh yeah, the marketing guy.
Yeah, he used to blog every day.
That became part of his brand.
It was seared into your mind
that that's what he did.
That became him.
And you know, people like to talk
about things that are changing.
They like to talk about the news.
That is what is new.
If you're just being goofy, And you're
not really making news in your own little
ecosystem in your own little world.
Once again, by definition,
you're not remarkable.
So I'm basically saying resolution or
not, if you're trying to make a change,
it's gotta be a remarkable change.
What does it really mean if you can't
do it to the level that somebody
actually says something or the
world doesn't communicate to you?
Anything?
I should show up to a place and
somebody should say, you know what?
You lost a lot of weight.
I didn't even have to tell
them I was on a weight plan or
going to the gym or whatever.
I don't want them to say, Hey, you buy a
lot of, you buy a lot of gym equipment.
Or, Hey, uh, I see you going
to the gym all the time and
I see you wearing headbands.
I don't want, I don't want any of that.
I want them to say, Hey,
listen, you lost weight.
Hey, listen, uh, we're going on a run.
Would you like to come?
Maybe they've never asked me that
before and they started asking me.
That's remarkability.
So, I started this practice three,
four years ago in earnesty and
stumbled with it for a while.
And now I think I've got it down to
a pretty good, pretty good habit.
It's kind of a way of life now.
I don't tell people, I don't tell people
anything about what I'm going to be doing.
I mean, I may announce some things
and put some processes out there and
make some announcements maybe, but I
don't sit around and say, Hey guys,
I'm doing this and that and that I'm,
I'm looking to get this response.
No, no, no, I do.
And the response happens do or do not.
There is no try.
That's, that's the whole idea behind that.
Maybe I'm talking crazy, maybe I'm not.
But hopefully, this meant
something to you, and I'm
gonna wrap it up for this one.
As I said, I'll probably formalize this
in some way, some method, some manner,
some form, something that you can take
with you and use in a more practical
sense, because that's what I do.
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Actually, no, once again, I'm not, I'm
not going to announce what's coming soon.
I'm just going to bring it to you.
So I got some projects lined up, some
things that are coming, um, transitioning
out of the resolution space, but I still
have some things that I want to get
out to you once I do that transition,
there'll be some other things happening.
So if you'd like what you see,
be sure you comment, let me know.
And I want to bring up this idea of,
um, just communicating generally with
the people that I'm creating with.
I don't think of myself creating
something and then just giving it to you.
I think of this as a collaboration.
So it's me and you together.
We're both collaborating on these ideas.
We're both coming together to,
to reach more people.
Uh, we're, we're creating together.
We're creating this.
I don't even know what to call it.
I don't want to call it a community,
exactly, but we're creating this
movement where we create the worlds
that we want, and we're not so
affected by nonsense out there.
So, just looking at the news, um, you
know, I'm seeing a lot of people, and
maybe this is a good wrap up point,
I'm seeing a lot of people just doing
things for attention, and we are in the
attention era, and that's, that's a trap.
And what I don't want to get into is
this idea of putting things out for
just attention or for the idea of just
making noise or for clicks or for likes.
Sure.
People might remark on it, but not
in any good and sustaining way.
Make sure that what you're
getting, getting to a point of
remarkability is positive, in your
eyes, whatever that might mean.
Just going around being
loud and being obnoxious.
We've got a ton of that, and I don't know
how much more humanity can really take
before every place starts to look like
Times Square or the Vegas Strip or just
all the Hollywood noise that's going on.
That's empty to me.
I want what you create to be To
be something truly remarkable.
I want to be able to jump on your
comments, jump in the DMS and say, Hey,
I really like what you're doing there.
It moved me.
Thank you for being that way.
Or, Hey, listen, I know you
might not want to hear this.
But you're doing so awesome at what
you're doing that I wanted to offer
some feedback, take it or leave it.
But I appreciate that you're
putting stuff out there.
I want to be able to have this
back and forth in a positive
way, not a salacious tabloid way.
In this era of attention, we've
got this idea of tabloid media and
just nonsense going back and forth.
It doesn't do a lot of
good to a lot of people.
It's just hot air, noise,
static in the background.
Uh, so I think this week I've got a few
more topics to talk about and we'll round
out January, do a little bit of a review.
I've got some things I want to bring up
with AI in the future, Elon Musk and other
contentious minds, my thoughts on them.
I don't generally like talking about
people, but There's enough creatives
out there that are case studies
that need to be broken apart and
dissected in the sociological sense,
just so we can understand what's
going on in the world right now.
Obviously people and figures
are a big part of that.
You'll hear me get into a little more
about individuals, some things that are
going on right now, how Threads is going.
As I said, I called this Creativity
Thread Life because I started
this concept from Threads and
what I was talking about on there,
different figures, you know, I should
actually do a Steve Jobs one as well,
but social media, all these
other topics, if you've got
any other ideas, let me know.
Uh, towards the end of this, I, I like
to go over some news bits, some, some
things that have been happening with me,
VR, AR, et cetera.
Anyway, that's going
to do it for this one.
This is Mr.
Benja with Creativity Threads Life.
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