Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt Podcast
1) MacGyver, Media, & Merchandise / Tony Hsieh, CEO & Internet Entrepreneur
“I love being entrepreneurial because it’s really just about getting to play MacGyver, but for business.” -Tony Hsieh Welcome to a very special episode of CREATIVE PROCESSING! This episode was recorde...Show More
2) Pushing Boundaries & Yourself / Jessica Alba, Actress and Entrepreneur
“You have to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. You have to allow yourself to fail. Once you get over the fear of failure, then you will start to find where your happiness lies, and if ‘good ...Show More
3) Career & Contacts / Mary Vernieu, Casting Director
“From an actor's perspective...you have to be prepared for it to be really hard because there's so many factors that are influencing why you get a role and why you don't get a role. When you go into a...Show More
4) Tech & Humanity / Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Writer, & Musician
“Making things ‘easy’ always has a downside...To pretend that you can make something easy without losing some of your focus and discipline is always a fallacy. There's always going to be a tradeoff.” ...Show More
5) Love & The Paycheck / Omid Memar, Up-and-Coming Actor
“When you're an artist, it's not a button you can push on or off. You're always an actor. I sleep as an actor. I wake up as an actor.... I always think about art and creativity, and that's all I want ...Show More
6) Analytics & Intuition / Liv Boeree, Professional Poker Player
“A lot of people often think of rationality as actually about removing your emotions entirely, but I disagree with that because emotions are what ultimately make us human...To be truly rational, we ha...Show More
7) Family & Folk Music / Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Mother-And-Son Folk Band
“There’s times before my mom and I are about to go onstage to play together, and maybe we just argued right before going on. But there’s something about that moment... where I give her a kiss on the c...Show More
Family & Folk Music / Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Mother-And-Son Folk Band
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8) TED TALK / How craving attention makes you less creative
For this episode, I’m going to do something a little different. I recently did a TED Talk, and there was something really distinct and special about it. I’m pretty used to performing on stage in front...Show More
9) Collaboration & Friendship / Seth Rogen + Evan Goldberg, Comedy Duo
“At the end of the day, I’d rather make stuff period than make stuff how I want to make stuff. And specific to us, I’d rather make stuff together even than stuff alone.” -Evan Goldberg My guests this ...Show More
10) Clouds & Pipes / Yuka Honda, Sonic Songstress
“To me, it's not about really external/internal. It's about a pipe between me and others...I have all these thoughts and I want to express them all, but people are not always ready to receive them. Th...Show More