{"id":103,"date":"2015-11-02T04:24:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T04:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-11-02T04:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T04:24:57","slug":"our-best-work-lacks-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Our best work lacks control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driving home tonight from a last minute “close out the weekend” grocery store run I heard an interview of an author on NPR. \u00a0Didn’t hear enough to catch her name but I did catch one of her sound bites where she talked about her “best work… ya know the really scary stuff, the most creative work I manage to do” — I don’t remember the exact wording but this unknown source said something to the effect of “I know I’m doing my best work when I lose control over it”. \u00a0The way she spoke about this reminded me of\u00a0“You can’t plan for screen magic”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I often find that it is specifically my desire to control what I am creating that silences the work. \u00a0I push the work inside. \u00a0And I delay and I procrastinate because I convince myself that I will be able to control this thing I need to create… and since I can’t control it now, I’ll just wait until another time, when “I feel like it” or rather wait until another time when I might be able to control it.<\/p>\n

I’m working a lot lately on blasting past that knee-jerk reaction to shut it down —\u00a0and to just let my work be. \u00a0Sometimes this is a matter of giving way to working with the contribution of others<\/a>, and other times it’s a matter of getting out of my own way. \u00a0Either way, it’s easier said than done. \u00a0But it’s worth remembering, and it’s worth doing: \u00a0 \u00a0do the work – stop worrying about control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Driving home tonight from a last minute “close out the weekend” grocery store run I heard an interview of an author on NPR. \u00a0Didn’t hear enough to catch her name but I did catch one of her sound bites where she talked about her “best work… ya know the really scary stuff, the most creative … Continue reading Our best work lacks control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PkJR-1F","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}