SUMMARY

Universally many creative people struggle with pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone into exploring the unknown, and in some ways, we end up handicapping ourselves. In this episode, Jennifer and Chris dive into how we can break away from a path set upon us, and open up to going past the boundaries.

TIMESTAMPS AND KEY POINTS

0:11 – Introducing Chris and his career thus far.
1:24 – How Wild Up was created, and what led to Chris starting this project.

• Learn more about Wild Up here: https://www.wildup.org/people/christopher-rountree/ 8:35 – The problem with the mindset that if you don’t play perfect, you are a failure as a musician.
9:33 – The importance of finding your guiding principle and what Chris’ was.

13:11 – How Chris has responded to uncertainty as a force in his life.
18:10 – Being a pro without worrying about knowing all the answers or not.
22:46 – How struggle allows us to create the most memorable and impactful projects.
25:52 – Exploring out of your comfort zone to find other opportunities that you wouldn’t otherwise had expected to receive.
31:36 – The idea of “playing with the unknown”.
37:34 – Being excluded when coming up with ideas that push past the boundaries regardless of status or respect.
39:01 – How staying in the comfort zone has allowed the infantilization of newer musicians who are stuck following a monotonous path set out for them.
44:28 – The likely struggle of being ourselves when we pursue creativity.
45:48 – The difficulty of receiving feedback from intangible services.
50:22 – Understanding that some art is focused on looking at the internal meaning, process, and what it is attempting to do rather than what it may appear to be.
53:25 – Final thoughts from Chris.