Magic 8-Ball: Netflix is my secret life purpose

<p>In case you hadn’t heard, every-other-Tuesday we’re publishing “Magic 8-Ball” episodes! AKA, we shake up the nearly-200 episodes we’ve released in the past two years, and the one that rises to the surface has a message that you needed to hear today.</p> <p><strong>Today’s episode is a blog from April, 2018 about our collective hang-up around what “creativity” means. Considering that a lot of us all of a sudden have a lot more time to be creative, it’s imperative that we give ourselves permission to actually <em>do that.</em></strong></p> <p>I’ve spent nearly three decades being mildly annoyed that real life gets in the way of fantasy. To me, fiction and art and music often feel more REAL and TRUE than the monotony of everyday life, with its bills and laundry and mountains of responsibilities.</p> <p>Could you make a case that maybe this is a PROBLEM? That I’m trying to escape reality and live in a perpetual state of denial? You probably could. But hey, I’m still paying my bills, and my laundry gets done, and I’m not shirking my responsibilities. So, cut me SOME slack.</p> <p>Thankfully, I’ve found a way to weave creativity into my daily life. I’m not just absorbing other people’s creativity—in the form of books, movies, TV, music, and art—I’ve also built a business that’s fueled by my own creative inspiration. But I get that a lot of people don’t have that kind of seamless integration.</p> <p>I was talking to one of my clients, Gwen, about this recently. She was feeling guilty about wanting to pursue writing—something she finds really fun and inspiring—because it’s not “practical.” It got me thinking about how warped our definition of “creativity” is, and how many weird “rules” we silently follow about what we’re “allowed” to pursue, creatively.</p> <p><strong>In this blog I’m (Rachel) talking about why you should never feel guilty about doing what you love (be it writing, Netflix, or anything else), and what the REAL definition of creativity is.</strong></p> <p>After you’ve listened, <a href= "https://clarity