The 3 Stages of an Artist's Work: Transaction, Compromise, Gift

What if the point of becoming a professional artist or writer was not what you thought it was? What if success wasn't the ultimate goal? What if each phase of your journey, even the frustrating ones, was a necessary stage to better understand what it is you're here to do? In creative work, there is a spectrum from "starving" to "sellout," and somewhere in the middle is where most of us find ourselves. How do we make sense of this? When you give yourself fully to your vocation, I think, what unfolds is a lifelong process of self-discovery. And so, this work reveals itself to us in stages.

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The 3 Stages of an Artist's Work: Transaction, Compromise, Gift is an episode from The Portfolio Life with Jeff Goins by Jeff Goins.

This episode is 32:08 long.

This episode was published on May 13, 2020.

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