Why It Can Be A Struggle To Find Your Purpose - John Vorhaus
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John Vorhaus is best known for his comedy-writing classic, The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You’re Not. He has taught and trained writers in 37 countries on five continents at last count, and created TV shows of his own in Nicaragua, Romania and elsewhere. His writing credits include dozens of teleplays and screenplays, plus seven novels and some two dozen works of non-fiction. His latest book is the little book of STANDUP. Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Writers Guild of America. He lives in Southern California and secretly controls the world from www.johnvorhaus.com.
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What thoughts do you have on purpose? Do you know your purpose? What do you think about having many purposes? What is the most helpful way you know to lead someone to their purpose?
This oddly came at the right time
Cheers!
All the best!
Same
My purpose is to tell stories, writing, as well as performing
7:15 this is what my professors taught me at university, and that made my decision of creative hard to pin down to one form of art 🙃
The point about _not finishing things_ as a way to avoid reflection may have changed my life.
Thank you. Very nice interview.
Cheers Dan!
I like this guy. He seems wise
Indeed! We had another great time with John. We are excited to share more from this interview.
I'm in that predicament. Finding purpose is such a crossroad on anyone's life. Will the sacrifices pay off on finding it? Only time will tell of course. But it doesn't hurt to try!
You are sure helping me😊
To me, my purpose is the unified sum of everything that gives meaning to my goals and direction, be that creatively or otherwise; that unified purpose has developed over time and was much more vague at first, and it becomes more specific as it becomes more informed by experience, interactions, and knowledge.
And I think to lead someone to their purposes is to let them ask the self-critical questions that they wouldn't think of for themselves. It doesn't mean that we have the right questions for another person, just that we have different ones, and that may lead them to ask the right questions of themselves; it's also when we are challenged or face a difficulty that we ask different questions, because that is the time when we are moved from our otherwise usual mindset. That's part of what makes collaborative creative work very useful, it brings together those two aspects of being asked questions by others and asking questions of ourselves.
Great video!
Wait more Vorhaus? Please!
Whole new interview. A lot more to come!
Cool
I love this guys audacity, one thing I questioned was "how do i accept that my first time in this creative field is going to be pretty bad if im always hoping itll be a masterpiece"
Maybe the answer is, dont let that hope stop you, have the audacity to keep going even if it doesnt turn out as you hoped and embrace what you learn from the experience
About the actual discussion in the video, there is something to the multiplicity of purpose John Vorhaus mentions here. Multiple purposes can mean the possibility of a beneficial overlap, but likewise it may potentially cause a conflict if one purpose starts to take more foreground than we want it to. However, I feel that having multiple purposes leads us to looking for what ties them all together, which is where I think positive overlap can happen. I think this relates to what he terms as "extension of energy" and I agree with the notion that "diffusion of energy" can be problematic at times, even if usually only temporarily.
The notion he mentions of leaving things unfinished relating to an avoidance on self-reflection, is not something I find super-agreeable. With the understanding that he likely did not mean it to be a "catch-all" notion - though it may well be true for many - for some like myself who have cognitive dysfunctions and physical health difficulties, an unfinished project does not reflect avoidance on self-reflection, it can simply be a functional inability to finish creative work. All projects I undertake in a professional capacity are finished and whether they are "good" or "bad" is a different question, one which both myself and the other person are likely to dwell on individually and subject to our own personal biases.
I reflect on my past creative work all the time, be it finished or unfinished. Specifically, I reflect on my creative thinking, my processes and my techniques whenever I start a new project, when I'm in the middle of one, and when I finish or move on from a project. As much as anyone is able to, I can also gauge where my skill is in comparison to other artists of similar themes or medium, seeing where I have room for improvement and likewise where I have been making improvement.
Self-reflection based on the works we finish is useful. A finished work can also crystalise its concept to some extent, and to be able to continue to be flexible with future ideas in general, we have to look back on the previously crystalised works and really think deeply on how we would improve upon some specific aspect of it. Whether one of my works is finished or unfinished, I will inevitably see that it has highlights of failings and successes alike.
However, my finished work is the one that I tend to reflect on as having more failings. When a work is complete, it has much less potential left, it is becoming plastic just as it is crystalising its concept, and to address the failings of a complete work it's often required to make it almost completely anew. When you have so many ideas or concepts to explore - and a limited ability and time to finish them - you learn to accept that most finished work will be an imperfect rendition of its original concept.
At the same time, most unfinished work will continue to have potential, precisely because it is yet to be complete. I can and do return to unfinished works and ideas, but rarely recreate a more complete idea from scratch to solve its failings.
One of my purposes in creative practise is to give each of my ideas a chance. In a sense, the more complete the idea, the more of a fair chance it already had, so often something else feels just as deserving of its fair chance at having a rendition made. I would prefer to have many imperfect renditions, than to have only a few perfect renditions of my ideas.
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