Diary of a Fool’s Project

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The journey of creating a tarot deck for creative empowerment instead of fortune telling – as a bachelor’s thesis. 300 pages of research, design, madness and Metallica. stash78creative.substack.com

  1. 5d ago

    Fighting the War of Art | Diary Ep. 14

    So what is talent, actually? Where does inspiration come from? And resistance? Does intelligence play a role in our creativity? I’m not the expert to give you the answers, but I invite you to join me in this episode as I read Steven Pressfield’s amazing book »The War of Art« and reflect upon these concepts. And I’m not an expert on podcasting either, so I’m not sure if you can see the Image of the Muse inserted here … If not, check out my website or instagram to find it. I’ve found that we like to explain the skills and abilities of others through talent or giftedness. That’s mean, because it probably devalues the other person’s hard work (mastery always involves a lot of work!), and at the same time, I might be closing a door for myself: »I don’t have any talent anyway, so I don’t even need to try«. While simultaneously excusing my less-than-stellar results or my lack of perseverance. If you want to know how the project continues, you can subscribe to this podcast, it’s free! Look for stash78creative to find more of my content on Youtube Instagram Medium and my Website. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stash78creative.substack.com

  2. Oct 7

    Why Creatives are criticised – and how it traumatises us | Diary Ep. 13

    Ever wondered why creative ideas are so often criticised – and rarely encouraged? Well, here’s one of my early attemps at an explanation. It only happened by accident while I was writing about a real life creative project that got in the way of my thesis … I’m curious to find out what you think of the whole criticism thing and the evolution of the creative demons. We’ll get back to Freud and the demons of creativity in the next and a later episode, when we discuss Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art and Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s Creativity.Feel free to subscribe if you don’t want to miss them. The Fool against the rest of the world. An inner contest, because no decision has been made, and a wholehearted decision is no longer possible. The creative is no longer deciding for or against their idea, for or against their concept (which doesn’t even exist yet)—with the appearance of the rational critic and their possibly logical arguments about time, resources, and relevance, the creative is deciding for or against reason and the world of adults. One’s own idea, one’s own vision is demoted to an illusion, a daydream, a castle in the air. If you want to know how the project continues, you can subscribe to this podcast, it’s free! Look for stash78creative to find more of my content on Youtube Instagram Medium and my Website. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stash78creative.substack.com

    Why Creatives are criticised – and how it traumatises us | Diary Ep. 13

  3. Sep 28

    Is Creativity a Curse or a Blessing? Let’s find out! | Ep. 12

    in this episode we’ll revisit the definition of creativity and find out what other creatives think about it! Some actually identified themselves as creative forthe first time, others shared insights into their struggles with creativity, the flood of ideas. The demons of the creative mind? I’d love to learn more about your own thoughts and experiences!! Here are the definition and the three questions: »Creatives are people who, fueled by an inner drive and their own ideas, create something new (tangible or intangible) according to their personal standards and become fully absorbed in the process.« 1. Do you tend to agree or not?2. Have you considered yourself a creative person until now?3. Based on this definition, would you classify yourself as a creative person? It’s your turn! What’s your answer and how do you perceive your own creatuvity?? If you want to know how the project continues, you can subscribe to this podcast, it’s free! Look for stash78creative to find more of my content on Youtube Instagram Medium and my Website. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stash78creative.substack.com

    Is Creativity a Curse or a Blessing? Let’s find out! | Ep. 12

  4. Sep 27

    Are you Creative? Let’s define Creativity! | Ep. 11

    I’m sure we all use the term »Creativity« – but what do we actually mean by it? Artistic hobbies? Nobel Prize winning achievements? Expression of the soul? Sock knitting??? In this episode I’m trying to define creativity – in a way that actually works to buid a thesis around it. I’ll present the first draft of a definition – and I’m curious to find out if you agree or not. What does »Creativity« mean for YOU? »Knitting a sock according to instructions and a pattern only requires reading and technique. It’s the same as painting by numbers, cooking by a recipe, or assembling a Billy bookshelf: once you’ve understood the basic rules and acquired a certain level of skill through repetition, you can reproduce the result at will without wasting a single bit of attention on it. That can be very relaxing (mindless knitting), and the result can be delightful, but it isn’t creative—in my opinion.« If you want to know how the project continues, you can subscribe to this podcast, it’s free! Look for stash78creative to find more of my content on Youtube Instagram Medium and my Website. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stash78creative.substack.com

    Are you Creative? Let’s define Creativity! | Ep. 11

  5. Sep 27

    A Playable Tarot for Empowerment? | Ep. 10

    A boring episode, but terribly important, because right here I actually got the idea to use the French suits forthe creative tarot. Perfectly logical if you look at tarot from a designer’s perspective: proper playing cards have a strict graphical system, just modern esoteric tarot (meaning everything that’s based on the RWS) kind of lost it along the way, placing symbolism and imagery center stage. Well, since I’m a lover of everything logical, it makes total sense to look at playing cards rather than tarot cards … Let me know what you think and if you like, name your favourite tarot deck! »I’m of the opinion that perfection doesn’t mean adding more and more, but taking away everything that isn’t strictly necessary. Reduction. Essentialism. In this spirit, I might come up with a symbol for the Cups/Mirrors or some kind of graphic system so that only the image and somehow the number and element appear on the card. Perhaps distributed in the top-left and bottom-right corners, like in a deck of playing cards. I like that. Always have. It calms me. And it allows you to fan the cards out in your hand and see their values. It makes them playable, come to think of it. Maybe I’ll even use the symbols from the French or German suits as a foundation?« If you want to know how the project continues, you can subscribe to this podcast, it’s free! Look for stash78creative to find more of my content on Youtube Instagram Medium and my Website. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stash78creative.substack.com

    A Playable Tarot for Empowerment? | Ep. 10

  6. Sep 26

    IV THE KING – The Fool unlocks a Superpower?

    So now the Fool lives happily ever after at the court of the Great King. But then he discovers something called a li-ba-ry or something and there are these things called books. Very strange! Find out what happens when the Fool has an accident in the library – and how that changes his fate. »»Very well, Fool. I was hoping that with the help of this book, you would learn card tricks and sorcery with which you could entertain us in the future. But I seem to have been mistaken. If you cannot read, then it is of no use.« The King shakes his head in resignation.The Fool doesn’t quite understand: »I don’t know. If I can read, can I then do sorcery?« Sorcery. Magic. Wizard. And card tricks. Does this have something to do with that card the Queen gave him upon his arrival? Card tricks. What did the Magician say? Trickster. Can one become a Wizard with a book?« If you want to know how the tale continues, you can subscribe to this show, it’s free! Here on Substack you find the Diary as a podcast. Look for stash78creative to find more of my content on Youtube (you’ll also find a timelapse of the artwork in the Fool’s Tale videos on Youtube)Instagram Medium and my Website.I’d love to connect with you and hear more of YOUR story! Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stash78creative.substack.com

    IV THE KING – The Fool unlocks a Superpower?

  7. Sep 26

    The Curse of Creativity? | Ep. 9

    … creativity? Welcome to this very philosophic episode of the diary that has absolutely nothing to do with tarot or cards. I’m just taking a walk, letting my mind wander, thinking about the Fool and wonder, why he set out in the first place. Or in other words: Why aren’t we all just sitting on our backsides, picking our noses, staring at the wall? Why do we want to achieve things? Why did Adam and Eve try the fruit from the tree? »For Csíkszentmihályi, Flow is the key to happiness (roughly … the book subtitle The Secret of Happiness (2021) somehow reveals it). But Flow only sets in with an appropriate challenge. So we have to constantly raise the bar, otherwise it gets boring. Meaning: We want more, so we don’t get bored. Does that hold up? Is that the insatiable greed, the creativity, the striving for Flow? Is the thesis tenable? Has anyone formulated it like this before?« If you want to know how the project continues, you can subscribe to this podcast, it’s free! Look for stash78creative to find more of my content on Youtube Instagram Medium and my Website. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stash78creative.substack.com

    The Curse of Creativity? | Ep. 9

  8. Sep 26

    Tarot without the Esoteric Fluff: Old Tarot Decks? | Ep. 8

    Have you ever wondered what tarot cards were like before the all overpowering and in my opinion completely overrated Rider Waite Smith deck became the tarot standard? Well, once the postman had delivered my parcels, I went down the rabbit hole of the Tarot de Marseille and Visconti-Sforza Tarot, still trying to create a concept for my own indie tarot deck. Spoiler: It didn’t quite become as clear as I hoped with the decks. But in this episode I finally gave myself permission wo leave all the esoteric woo-woo fluff behind and create a tarot deck, that’s based on …… Listen to find out. ;)And let me know what you think! »The theme of the card (the card themes were already pretty much set and are being reviewed in this process) is, accordingly, Serendipity. Destiny or chance would also have worked, but for the fiery Wands, it’s Serendipity. Being in the right place at the right time – or something. The Cups answer: »I let go, I let it flow.« and the card is called Letting Go. Harmony from chaos does not arise from frantic effort but rather from letting things take their course. They just fall into place. Like water. The river finds its bed and flows to the sea. Always. The Swords exclaim: »Now everything makes sense!« – a eureka moment, the card is called Clarity. Thinking, researching, gaining distance, and at some point, usually in the shower, you have a bright moment, a light bulb goes on, and suddenly everything fits. The Pentacles answer: »I’m working on it. Perfecting it.« and the card is called Project. You also have to do something for harmony to emerge from chaos. The proof of this is every dirty sock that has ever landed on the floor.« If you want to know how the project continues, you can subscribe to this podcast, it’s free! Look for stash78creative to find more of my content on Youtube Instagram Medium and my Website. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it, feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stash78creative.substack.com

    Tarot without the Esoteric Fluff: Old Tarot Decks? | Ep. 8
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    Jess • Creativity & Cards
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    2026
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