Ep. 205 - Let's Do This

Join Rob today as he discusses quality vs quantity, analysis paralysis, unrestricted creativity, and free throws.  This episode is a result of some *excellent* dialogue within the Telegram chat group - easily joined from any internet browser at: t.me/allaroundgrowth    

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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. Welcome to another episode of the All Around Growth Podcast, everybody. Today we are going to talk about quality versus quantity, analysis, paralysis, unrestricted creativity, and free throws. So let's get right into it, shall we? This is episode number 205 of a show that provides insight and tools into building the life and homestead of your dreams. My name is Rob Kaiser and I am your host. Today is Wednesday, October 13th, 2021. And I sat down to journal this morning. I read this quote and decided that's it. We're gonna get back into it. We're gonna, you know, I enjoy this on the daily. Yeah. Would I like to do something different? Would I like to do something, quote, better? Of course, we all would. But as I revisited some of the messages in the chat thread at t.me slash allaround growth, I listened to something that Chad had said. He left us a little video or audio message, rather, after a couple quotes. Something I shared. That uh was a quote by Ryan Holliday at a screenshot of a tweet that said, the problem with quality over quantity is that it doesn't get you the reps that you need to produce real quality. And I said, discuss. Which had left a voice message, and I can't articulate it all, and I don't have the technology available. I do have the technology available to me. I actually thought about recording that and inserting it in a podcast here. I haven't made the time to do it, I'm not going to. But I listened to it again this morning and took a couple notes. He said that perfection is the enemy of the good. And that oftentimes we are so consumed with quality that we get stale or we get stuck. And I thought, damn, that sure sounds a lot like what a lot of us know as analysis or paralysis. And he referred to this as writer's block. And I thought, alright, let's do this. Let's let it flow. And as he was speaking, he discussed this idea of unrestricted creativity, which is just kind of awesome. And then mentioned something about shortages and quality issues. And I'm not gonna really go there because that's not I I really can't recall the context of what we were talking about with regard to that, but we can definitely talk about free throws and the references that were made to producing a consistent body of work in a cons in a in a in the same amount of time. For example, four articles in four days that he talked about. And you know, I can speak, I can kind of speak to this because I I I've been gathering show topics and I sat down to to do the work and prepare for a show like I did this Sunday. I wasn't really satisfied with it. What I am satisfied with is a consistent two hundred plus number of podcasts in a year, and that makes me feel like I've been doing the free throws. You just gotta do it. Put in the reps, put in the time, and there's a number of people, and I'm sure you've heard the stories who talk about professional basketball players just drilling it out, free throw after free throw after free throw after free throw after free throw after free throw. You get it. That's why they're pros. That's what they do. And even when they're pros, they never stop. Drilling it out, 6 a.m. early morning, late, all the time. I've also been, you know, with that, as I was thinking this morning, and and and sort of along this line of unrestricted creativity, I've been somewhat conflicted with this, right? And I've taught anybody who's listened to this consistently knows that I speak of my internal conflict about the show. And that's why I waffle from a daily release of a recording or a weekly recording, and I've done this several times, and I've talked about shutting this down and you know anybody who listens to this with any certainty or any consistency. I'm thinking about the microphone here, and as I get up to the railroad tracks, I'm gonna make a quick adjustment. Um but oftentimes it comes across as me being uh an indecisive little bitch. And uh I wanted to make sure I got out this little self-deprecating jab as a bit of humor before I make this little mic adjustment here. Alright. So what do I have to say about unrestricted creativity? Oftentimes I think I'm not much of an artist or a quote creative, as my as one of my exes used to put it. They were somehow on this other level because they were creatives. But alright, so I've got this all-around growth podcast project. This is like 2.0 of this podcast because it originally started as a project in 2019. What else have I done? I mean, I was a writer and produced articles for this thing called Brink of Freedom. I was a writer and had my own blog called The Nameless Wayfarer, which I sort of initially started writing anonymously because I felt like it gave me some sort of freedom to write about things that I was not quite comfortable sharing with people who knew me. And I did that, and eventually I I don't know, I wrote things that I wanted to share, and I wanted people to know me. So there's this and then I and then I stopped, you know, right around 2014, right around the time I moved back here, you know, I was heavy into it. And and and basically that project served as a uh served as almost served as a similar purpose to what I intended this to serve as, and and I shifted gears because that's all right, I'm going in a million different directions here. When I started this podcast initially, and when I made this video on YouTube about a year ago, I invited you to join me on this journey of living the life of my dreams, I guess. And then that that that morphed into this life and homestead of your dreams. But a lot of the life of my dreams has been and and or a lot of this join me as I build the life of my dreams, is has a lot of this has been focused on finding my why, and the more the more content and the more uh things that I read and watch and listen to the people who I'm inspired by have all found their why and can speak it with clarity. If you ask them, they can give you a 30-second synopsis elevator speech of their why with specificity. And I can't do that yet. So I'm realizing that before I really can tackle a lot of the other projects and and and dive into this unrestricted creativity uh that that that I've been dipping my toes in over the years with all of these little projects like the Nameless Wayfair and Brink of Freedom and do you know well I don't know, there's been a number of other things that I can't um you know well the deliberate living systems that and the blog and the mailing list and that podcast and this podcast and some other attempts that never really took off because of this analysis paralysis, but oftentimes I start something, I stop something, realize I'm putting too much energy into something, pick it up later, pick never pick it up again. And the one thing recently that I've devoted a lot of energy to, and I've spoken about this in the past, is my autobiography. And I'm 12, I mean yeah, about 12,000 words into that right now, and I'm realizing that I can make faster progress on this if I want to, and I've realized that this is probably the best way for me to get to that why, and the reason is the autobiography is just the first part of the self-authoring suite, the way that I've structured it. And when I was doing this deep dive into finding my why over the past couple of years, I realized that this is where I'm at, and over the past year I've made some progress on that. And yes, I could have made more progress, and um, but I'm realizing that looking back, you know, over the past year, year and a half, uh, things have changed. Um, you know, I've I've I've learned a lot, and I've realized that uh quality and quantity aren't mutually exclusive, they don't have to be. And we talked about this in the group, and this is why this uh group has been kind of awesome t.me slash allaround growth. It's a telegram chat group with myself and people in the audience and helping generate fodder for conversation just like this. So quantity and quality are not mutually exclusive. And I I kind of agree that quantity builds quality oftentimes, and I've recognized a lot of my own analysis paralysis, and I think that talking about thinking about it and having a body of work to reflect upon, whether written, podcast form, or whatever the case may be, is good to help you realize that. If unrestricted creativity is something that is of interest to you, and really the only way to build upon that unrestricted creativity, I suppose, is with the repetition, much like free throws. So guys, that's it. Um I'm going to likely cut this short instead of getting where we normally park. Uh, for those of you who are in the group, I shared a video yesterday. There's a big, big construction project going on here at the farm. Uh, lots of excavation, lots of big trucks moving around. And I'm running a little late this morning after a conversation with Cody out in the barn. So, uh, anyways, if you like what you hear, uh check out the show notes. There are ways to links and ways to share the podcast there, and also ways to uh connect with all of us in the telegram chat group. So it looks like actually, all the equipment's out, but no one's home. No one's really operating yet. So, yeah, guys, there will be some links in the show notes to all episodes in the past, links to share on social media, uh, and links to the group chat, and I would encourage you to participate in it with us if you like what you hear. Lots of wisdom in the group being shared, lots of good stuff, and um I'm very grateful for it. And even though I quit Oh, real quick, I talked about all these different projects, and um one of the things that I thought of, I'll see if I can wrap this up before this other person gets here, but I've got some other projects in the works on the back burner, things that I may have hinted or alluded to in the past, but I think that one of the ways that I can make progress on those is by continuing to make the progress on this current self-authoring program. Um I'm gonna drop a link to that in the show notes as well because this is really helping me understand my why. And I don't know. There's a lot in the words, but I want to keep sharing it with you so people are here, guys. It's weird because I'm gonna pretend like I'm on the phone. Have a great day. This is right, guys.