78: Cathy Heller | Being Creative in Spite of Your Day Job

Feedback

Understanding and utilizing feedback is crucial for creative and personal growth. Cathy Heller emphasizes the importance of discerning valuable feedback from noise, using her own experiences in the music industry as an example. She illustrates how feedback can guide improvements, citing how even small adjustments, like in Serena Williams' tennis swing, can make a significant difference 1. Jordan Harbinger adds that feedback is essential in all aspects of life, from creative endeavors to personal relationships 2.

The feedback part of anything is so important. Like in a marriage, if you don't get feedback, you might think like, “I love this person. I'm just going to do it, and shoot from the hip and it's all good.”

--- Cathy Heller

Heller encourages creatives to seek feedback actively, suggesting platforms like Facebook groups for honest critiques 1.

   

Resilience

Building resilience is a key factor in achieving success, as Cathy Heller shares through her personal journey. She recounts the challenges she faced, including fertility treatments and career hurdles, emphasizing that resilience is about embracing discomfort and persisting despite setbacks 3. Jordan Harbinger highlights the misconception that success comes easily, noting that resilience is often developed through overcoming life's toughest moments 4.

Everything has been a fight. Everything has been like the most uphill.

--- Cathy Heller

Heller believes that cultivating a belief in the possibility of success is crucial, as it fuels the persistence needed to navigate challenges 3.