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Today’s podcast is all about growth mindset, from the very beginning checking in about what they are working on. Angie is learning a lot as she re-created the Book in a Year curriculum videos, and Elizabeth teaches best when she is at her own edge. Brain plasticity is the topic, and how it applies to writers, filmmakers and other artists. They dig into giftedness v. the trainable brain. “You,” Angie proclaims, “could become the writer of your dreams.” It’s a matter of practicing to be better in your chosen field, expanding your brain’s capacities. Struggle is a key component to learning and growing, so find your challenge, your edge, look for it, and enjoy it. They touch on parenting as an art where struggle is a key component, and look at the power of being internally driven. They mention a tool they advocate: writing a letter to self about your book before getting input from others. Elizabeth claims that the theories and science Angie lays out would make a good Pixar film, a follow up to Inside Out but about neurology rather than emotions. You heard it here first.
Links Discussed:
Jo Boaler Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
Carol Dweck Mindset: the New Psychology of Success
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Daniel Coyle The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.
Writing advice was from https://twitter.com/Massawyrm
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Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival–everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.
The hosts:
Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.
Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.