My Top 10 List of Artist Dates done as part of a Working Out Loud Circle goal in 2021

This post is part of the output of an exercise I did in the Week 9 "Explore more original contributions" Working Out Loud Circle Guide in March 2022,

Artist Dates are one of two main practices advocated by Julia Cameron in her book “The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”

I did a large number of Artist Dates back then. I tried to restrict myself to 10 for this exercise but ended up with 14 for this post.

The list is in no particular order.

1. Playing The Spotify Story series of podcasts about all aspects of Spotify’s history as a music streaming startup. 
   
   
   
   
2. Baking a stollen.
   
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3. Exploring gatherings and the return-to-work(place) with Priya Parker and Brene Brown.
   "How We Return and Why It Matters, Part 1 of 2".
   
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4. Watching Rod Beckstrom (author of “The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations” book)'s Talks at Google Talk.
   
   
   
   
5. Learning about the M’aitre D’hotel role.
   
   
   
   
6. Watching a dramatised film of Roger Bannister’s 4-minute mile.
   
   
    
7. Watching Quantum Love (a French subtitled in English film).
   
   
   
   
8. Exploring my ideal learning partner via a specific Morning Pages exercise. Morning Pages are a Julia Cameron-recommended practice,
   
   
9. Exploring Esther Perel’s content on small talk and connecting.
   
   
   
   
10. Watched documentaries of people I have respected over many years:-
1. Michael Heseltine
   
   
   
   
2. David Owen
   
   
   
   
3. John McEnroe
   
   
   
   
4. Will I Am 
   
   
   
   
5. Andrew Neil
   
   Andrew Neil’s eulogy for Sir Alastair Burnet
   
   
11. Watched “From The Sky Down” a documentary about U2’s recording of the Achtung Baby album in Berlin.
    
    
    
    
12. Exploring learning biographies via German academic journal articles.
    
    Article: Learning Biographies in Adult Education: a comparative study
    Article: Meeting learning barriers in terms of learning biographies
    
    
13. Read “The Black Art of Killing” by Matthew Hall (via a specific setting of an Oxford college and special forces storyline)
    
    
    
    
14. Exploring the career of Ann Hiatt, former EA to Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Marissa Meyer and Eric Schmidt (Google)
    
    

Why not try doing Artist Dates for yourself?