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When Vincent van Gogh began his career as an artist, he had already failed at everything else. He even got fired from his own family’s business in the process.

Not seeing any alternative, he completely immersed himself in art. In one two-week period, he created 120 drawings.

But exactly none of those drawings are famous today.

What feels like waste is not waste

Last week, I talked about the Iceberg Principle – the idea that any masterpiece you see is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s far more knowledge and experience beneath the surface, giving that masterpiece confidence and grace.

But as you’re adding layer after layer to your iceberg, it doesn’t feel like that’s what you’re doing. It feels like you’re wasting your energy. But you’re not.

After Van Gogh’s frenzied first couple weeks seriously pursuing art, he settled in to a more conservative pace. Instead of 120 drawings in two weeks, he was instead shooting to make just twenty a week. He figured that’s how many he’d have to make to end up with one good piece each week.

“Waste” takes many forms

What feels like “waste” can take many forms:

• Failed projects: You made something, and nobody likes it.
• Off on timing: Nobody like it yet, but some day someone will.
• Unfinished projects: You started, got a little ways, and maybe Shiny Object Syndrome took over. For whatever reason, you didn’t finish.
• Research and Preparation: You don’t always know what you’re trying to learn, but all sorts of tinkering may seem like a waste.

Creative waste is part of the creative game

Sometimes what feels like “waste,” makes it directly into a current or future project, thus making it clearly not waste. But even the stuff that never becomes a part of your body of work is part of the creative game.

I talked in episode 256 about the Barbell Strategy. To succeed in creative work, put most of your efforts toward “sure bets” that protect your downside and keep you in the game. With the rest of your time and energy, play “wildcards,” that have a chance of big upside.

Creative work happens in Extremistan, not Mediocristan. Success won’t be a steady climb up-and-to-the-right. Instead, it will look more like a poorly-shaved porcupine. Long periods of time where it doesn’t seem like much is happening, punctuated by big spikes that level up your career one at a time.

Yes, you’re showing up every day and putting in the work, but all that is a series of small bets. You hope for one or two or a few to turn into positive Black Swans. Projects that take off, and take on a life of their own.

In the course of playing this strategy, you can’t tell what will be wasted, and what will not. You have to trust that “waste” is part of the process.

Projects will fail, projects will go unfinished, and iterations will burn in the fire. That doesn’t make you a procrastinator or a dilettante – that makes you a creator.

Waste in Van Gogh’s first masterpiece

Vincent van Gogh’s first masterpiece was full of waste. He did not just a sketch, but a small study, a medium study, and a print he could give out to test his idea. This was all before working on the final canvas. And that had many iterations, and four coats of varnish. He left it in his friend’s studio to prevent himself from “spoiling it.” Then he still came back and worked on it some more.

All that waste was on top of the years of work he did leading up to the project. The painting was about peasants, and he wandered around living like a peasant himself, begging people to model for him. And, there was the twenty drawings a week he had done.

And those 120 drawings he did in a two-week period? We don’t even know what they look like, because he destroyed them.

Once this first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters, was done, it must have felt like a waste to Vincent. Everyone hated it. He got in a fight with his brother about it, and he completely cut off a friend who attacked it, viciously.

Vincent van Gogh’s first masterpiece was the result of a lot of waste. Each of those drawings was a failed project, surely many were left unfinished. He did a massive amount of research and preparation, and he was certainly off on timing. The Potato Eaters is regarded as a masterpiece today.

Creative waste adds to the iceberg

You already heard last week about how any masterpiece is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s far more below the surface. So what new do you learn from creative waste?

Sometimes, you can’t see the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes it all just feels like waste. Your projects are failing, and your preparation and planning isn’t getting you anywhere, causing you to leave projects unfinished.

Just remember that other creators have embraced creative waste. I told you last week about how Margaret Mitchell re-wrote nearly every chapter of Gone With the Wind at least twenty times, Jerry Seinfeld says joke-writing is “ninety-five percent re-write,” Meredith Monk’s charts and graphs go to waste and don’t end up in the final performance, and Stephen King reminds you to “kill your darlings.”

Those are all fine when you’re deep in a project and you can see where it’s going, but what do you do when entire projects get scrapped?

Great creators embrace waste

That’s when you need to remind yourself of the approach Picasso took to his paintings. He did one after another. He saw them as like “pages in [his] journal.” He understood that not all his works would be successful. Even once he had a finished piece, he didn’t know its true fate. “The future will chose the pages it prefers,” he said. “It’s not up to me to make the choice.”

Embrace creative waste. No waste, no wins.

Image: Tale of Hoffmann by Paul Klee

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Charles Skaggs & Jesse Jackson are joined by special guest companions DJ Nik and Martha Southgate to discuss "Vincent and the Doctor", the tenth episode from Doctor Who Series Five in 2010, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, Tony Curran as Vincent van Gogh, and Bill Nighy as Dr. Henry Black!

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This bonus episode introduces episode four of the Curious Clinicians, about Vincent Van Gogh and digitalis. The Curious Clinicians is a new medical podcast produced by Hannah Abrams, Avi Cooper, and Tony Breu; you can download them all at curiousclinicians.com.

Martin is joined by returning guest, illustrator Tony Stella. The pair discuss cinematic renderings of the artist Vincent van Gogh.

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Links and resources mentioned

• One You Feed Podcast
• The Two Wolves parable
• Keith Richards
• Kurt Cobain
• Vincent van Gogh
• Leonard Cohen
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• Arthur Ashe

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Vincent Van Gogh was a loser and a failure. He failed as an art dealer, and as a preacher. He even got fired and banned from his own family’s business.

On top of it, Van Gogh had terrible health problems. His gums were sore, he was losing weight, and he had a hacking cough. He was also prone to psychotic episodes, during which he was institutionalized for months at a time.

Vincent never really found his place in the world. He died young, at only 37.

I recently read an incredible biography of Van Gogh. By the end, I was left wondering, what can you possibly learn from this tragic life?

Steven Naifeh is co-author if the incredible [Van Gogh: The Life]  (@VanGoghTheLife). It’s a 900-page treasure chronicling the life of an artist who is so revered, tourists bring their relative’s ashes to spread over his gravesite in Auvers, France.

Steven and his co-author and partner Gregory White Smith spent more than a decade compiling Van Gogh’s biography. To do so, they had to sort through mountains of letters and literature from the period of Van Gogh’s life. Since neither of them spoke Dutch, they worked with more than twenty translators and researchers to complete the book.

The result is a Van Gogh biography of unparalleled depth, painting in intricate detail the outer and inner life of Vincent Van Gogh.

In this conversation, you’ll learn:

• Most people think Vincent Van Gogh died in obscurity, but that’s not true. Why is it that, as he languished in an asylum, Vincent's work was actually exploding in popularity.
• Many people also believe that Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide. How did Naifeh and Smith come to change the opinion of even the most studied Van Gogh historians.
• What can you possibly learn from the tragic success of Vincent Van Gogh? Steven shares insights about what he and his late partner and co-author learned from studying Van Gogh’s life. It’s surprising, and touching.

Links and resources mentioned

• Steven Naifeh
• Van Gogh: The Life - Book
• Van Gogh The Life - Website
• Van Gogh The Life - Instagram
• Van Gogh The Life - Facebook
• Claude Monet
• Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
• Jackson Pollock - Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?
• Theo Van Gogh
• Van Gogh Letters
• Albert Aurier Article
• Grave of Vincent and Theo van Gogh
• The Potato Eaters
• Van Gogh Museum
• Paul Gauguin
• German Expressionism
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Georges Seurat
• A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
• Camille Pissarro
• Émile Bernard
• Paul Signac
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Salon
• Paul Cézanne
• Alfred Sisley
• The Eight Impressionist Exhibitions, 1874-1886
• Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
• Manic Depression
• Absinthe
• Syphilis
• Syphilis and the use of mercury
• Gregory White Smith
• Wheatfield with Crows
• Tree Roots
• Museum unconvinced by Van Gogh death theory
• John Rewald
• Loving Vincent
• At Eternity's Gate
• Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night)
• Vincent Di Maio
• NCIS: Provence: The Van Gogh Mystery
• Luck Unites a Couple for a Lifetime of Great Collaborations
• Almond Blossom

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