Developing Creative Grit With Artist Korynn Morrison

There is a lot happening in the world at the moment.

I feel like I'm listening to equal amounts of incredible things happening for people, contrasted with things that people are really worried, fearful about.

Um, there's certainly conversation in the zeitgeist about the struggling art market.

Um.

You know, here, if you're listening in Australia, everyone's talking about the budget, and how horrific it is for small business.

You know, there is all of this noise going on at the moment.

But what I want to talk to you about today is creative grit, because if you have grit, none of that matters.

Okay? So, first of all, when we think about this concept of grit, immediately in my head, not a very nice image comes in.

It's actually like someone white-knuckling their way through struggling, pushing shit uphill, you know.

That's, you know, sometimes people think that's grit.

I want to pivot that a little bit for you today.

Grit and the formula to grit is perseverance times passion.

Write that down.

Perseverance times passion.

Perseverance is pretty self-explanatory.

And yet, I feel like I have this conversation with a lot of creatives too.

You can't just... talk your way through a creative life.

At the end of the day, you have to be showing up over and over and over and over and over and over.

I could keep going and going and going.

You have to keep showing up and making the work.

But it is very, very hard to show up day in, day out, or whatever your system is for yourself, however many hours you seem to get in a week in, whatever that chosen system is for yourself, you still have to consistently show up.

Perseverance, right? It's hard to show up with perseverance if you have no passion for what you're doing.

But passion is a really interesting thing.

Like, I'm sure that all of us, you know, can sit back, close our eyes, and you say the word passion, and someone will pop into your head.

There'll be someone that you look up to in your life that is a passionate person that just immediately pops into your head.