Oh Sh*t! Why Safe Is the Riskiest Choice for Creatives with Patrik Lindkvist
Discover why playing it safe can hold back your creative life and independent journey. Patrik Lindkvist dives deep into the risks creatives must embrace to unlock true creative motivation and accountability. Perfect for artists, freelancers, musicians, and all independent creatives ready to break free and thrive.
For creatives who want to cut through the noise
You know that feeling. You're about to send the email, pitch the idea, post the thing and suddenly your palms are sweaty and two words land hard in your head.
Oh SH*T!
Most of us take that as a warning to stop. But what if it's actually your body saying- yeah, go for it?
This week we talk to Patrik Lindkvist, creative director, author and the man who once got a standing ovation for a job application listing all his flaws. (Spoiler: he got the job.)
His new book Oh Shit! 115 Thoughts on Magic Communication is basically a permission slip for every creative who has ever played it safe and regretted it.
We get into:
· Why 3,000 messages hit us every day — and we remember exactly two
· The anti-job-application that broke LinkedIn
· How to make ventilation sexy (we're serious, it works)
· Why your community is your safe launchpad for uncomfortable leaps
· And what Michael Jordan, monkey Jesus and a Swedish ferry to Finland have in common
This week's tiny experiment: Find your Oh Shit idea. Say it out loud. Then do it. Later means never.
📚 Books Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway — Susan Jeffers amazon.com/Feel-Fear-Anyway-Indecision-Confidence/dp/0345487427
Oh Shit! 115 Thoughts on Magic Communication — Patrik Lindkvist www.plindkvist.com
🔬 Research & concepts The Von Restorff Effect wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Restorff_effect
Google's Project Aristotle rework.withgoogle.com/guides/understanding-team-effectiveness
🎥 Referenced in this episode Michael Jordan "Failure" — Nike commercial (1997) youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc
Monkey Jesus / Ecce Homo — Borja, Spain wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(García_Martínez_and_Giménez)
Kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing with gold wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
👤 Guest Patrik Lindkvist 🌍 plindkvist.com 💼 LinkedIn: Search Patrik Lindkvist
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