Atlasphere - Episode 31
Atlasphere talks about their relationship to failure, overcoming their fears of traveling solo and giving themselves permission to see where their art leads them.
Here are just a few of the wisdom bombs Atlasphere drops:
On Travel:
- "I follow my curiosity. I pick a place and I go there by myself and I look around and I just soak up what's there. And I have a lot of anxiety before I leave, leaving the routine and leaving the bubble. I get very wound up and yet I know it's the best thing for me to leave."
- "And what's so cool about traveling alone is. You can just follow your nose. You're like, oh, I feel like riding a train today. Or, oh, I feel like checking out markets. Oh, I really want this local food thing."
- "So all the adventures that I've had, that I've gone by myself have been really fun and out of necessity, I know that they expand me and grow me and connect me."
On Failure:
- "Every time I'd get somewhere, I'd get knocked back to square one. So that is, this constant failure, it's like a forty year career and it sucks ripping, literally ripping that industry out of my hands for me to see what my toxic relationship <to it> was and is,"
On Being an Artist:
- " I've always been an artist. I've always made things and I've just given myself permission to see where that leads me and that's that in-between place."
On Minimalist:
- "I've seen people go through their, attachment to things and you just can't get somebody there, until they're ready."
- "Think about trees, like a Redwood tree. It has everything it needs, right there. And all of its little leaves, fall underneath it and provide this nice little mulch, like you think about animals, they don't have houses or boxes or hangers. They're fine. As humans, we've created this complex narrative, that's disagreed upon fiction about stuff and the American dream and this binary orientation and all this stuff. And it's really just this big myth that these powerful people have put into place to preserve their wealth, to smash and grab everything. Even time <and> watches, like all that stuff, it's agreed upon fiction <and we> have bought into it. And this big waking up is happening. We do have everything we need, it'd be pretty weird if everybody just walked out of their houses and out into the woods and just started living. And there are people that are doing that for sure."
On Relationships:
- "Yeah. it's also interesting on a more subtler way to realize those relationships that you keep grasping for that there's nothing. And then you finally realize what are you grasping for? This person has no interest in participating with me. What am I trying to get? And then when you let go, it just feels so liberating, but it's also whoa, why did I grasp for so long?"
Show Notes:
Brene Brown's Vulnerability Ted Talk
Holly Priestly (the vanlifer I speak to who offers mini-consulting sessions).
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