In Steven Pressfield’s memoir, Govt Cheese, he opens chapter 47, “Art Is Artifice,” with these lines: I’ve heard that birds sing out of pure joy. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe writers write or painters paint because they’re bursting with the exuberance of life. They write because they’re in Read more…
Overview: In this solo episode (ep 147), Adam Williams refers to Richard Rohr’s (and Carl Jung’s) spiritual philosophy of the two halves of life. Adam talks about his internal struggles as a creator and human with the external validations and gatekeepers we’re socialized to obey. (Released on podcast on June 20, Read more…
I wrote something last week about New Year’s Eve and the false attachments we have to it, “Beyond the Constructs, We Live in Deeds, Breaths & Heartthrobs.” The essence of that might be the magical and mundane fact that new beginnings surround us. It is not tied to the Gregorian Read more…
Overview: In this short solo episode (ep 138), Adam Williams pulls out a helpful piece of the best-selling author Steven Pressfield’s book, “The War of Art,” noting key distinctions between worldviews of the artist and the fundamentalist. (Released on podcast on Feb. 20, 2023) Also on Apple, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, YouTube, Google and other players. EP 138 Read more…
The path of learning and growing as a creative being is as much one of unlearning as anything. Or as Julia Cameron describes it, recovery of who we really are. In the process, we get to shed the answers and definitions we were handed and come to believe as true. Read more…
Overview: Steven Pressfield is the best-selling author of The War of Art, The Artist’s Journey, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire and, his newest novel, which was published earlier this month, A Man at Arms. In this conversation, we talk about Resistance with a capital-R, that diabolical enemy within Read more…
I had a sort of breakthrough experience over the weekend. One that I’m tempted to say should be obvious. But I don’t think it is. Until it is. I was feeling like the worst artist in the world; really down about it. And then the breakthrough: I picked up the Read more…
This past year, I tracked my book reading. I’ve never kept a book list before. But then I’d forget what I’ve read. On occasion, I’ve checked out a book from the library that I forgot I’ve checked out before. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” (Seinfeld, episode 57 anyone?) Read more…
Overview: In this episode, Adam Williams, creator and host of Humanitou, which typically features guests in “conversations of humanness and creativity,” is riding solo and launching something new. Starting with this episode, Adam is committing to a series of five solo episodes mixed in with the coming months’ conversations. In Read more…