HeyJaredThe Cosmic Songbook 🌌
From dissecting my creative processes to intimate stories about living an artistic life on my terms and mindset coaching for artists and creatives. An introspective - at times philosophical - publication to ignite your creativity and soothe your heart.
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Guard the thing before it's born (opens the original)
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Focusing and prioritising your creative work can be hard. This is why I created a FREE ASYNC community where we post daily and hold each other accountable. Join here.They say, “Share your process online. Be as open and vulnerable as you can.” Yes. Maybe. If this approach resonates with you, do it.For me, being open and honest is very liberating, and weirdly, it becomes a tool to hold myself accountable. (I recently started a year-long challenge on You
Nothing new under the sun (opens the original)
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Maybe the Old Testament got it right, even when it comes to creativity. “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”Take Miley Cyrus.Miley just put out her new song Bass Persuades, the first single off her tenth album, and within a day, the internet had done its usual autopsy. Her musical return is one of the biggest trend of the week. That deadpan, spoken-word verse? Straight off Lady Gaga’s Poker Face. Her vocal snap on the chorus? B
Don’t rush the landing (opens the original)
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Three hours after submitting my thesis for my MA in Creative Music Production, I was already dreaming and thinking about my next research project and ideas. I was feeling like a happy unicorn running through a wild land without a destination, but enchanted by the many marvellous things I was spotting around me. My thesis was about exactly this kind of moment — the ‘in-between’ states during the creative process. What we can experience in between moments of flow or right after finishing something
Why we stopped asking each other anything (opens the original)
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Focusing and prioritising your creative work can be hard. This is why I created a FREE ASYNC community where we post daily and hold each other accountable. Join here. “People around me rarely ask me what I’m working on, and it just feels like they are always talking about themselves.”I hear this a lot from people. Especially from other creatives and art… Read more
The self-deprecation habit nobody questions (opens the original)
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I want to say something out loud today.This is my 101st post on Substack.I am about to complete my MA in Creative Music Production after two years of hard work.I am proud of myself. Not “proud, but I still have so far to go.” Not “proud, but let me list all my flaws first so you don’t think I’m full of myself.” Just: proud.Watch how often we reach for s… Read more
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