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What happens when you do nothing? What really is the effect of inertia?

Music and links from this episode

1. Stop to Start Over by Artofescapism
2. Some Bad Joke by Monplaisir
3. Cherry Dump Cake by half cocked

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1. Yesterday’s episode about doing nothing got me thinking
2. Funnily enough, about doing nothing
3. It got me thinking a little bit deeper about it doing nothing
4. The effects of it
5. And how it impacts your life
6. Or, as the dictionary puts it, inertia.
7. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
8. MUSIC
9. As a designer
10. Especially as a young designer, or a learning designer
11. Doing just enough isn’t anywhere near enough
12. The competition is too large
13. The amount of skills you need to learn is too lengthy
14. Doing a design course, or just turning up 9-5 at your job
15. Isn’t going to cut it if you want to become an amazing designer, or even any more than an average one
16. Really early on in my design education I realised this
17. I read magazines like Creative Review and Grafik, and every day I was exposed to amazing design work
18. I realised if I was going to compete with anybody in those magazines
19. I had to work harder than them
20. Or at least as hard as them
21. And after reading interviews with these designers in those magazines
22. I knew that they didn’t turn up on a morning and leave at tea time, and never did anything else
23. These people spoke of always thinking about design
24. And if they got an idea in their head, no matter what time it was, they’d pursue it, and see where it went
25. That’s why inertia is weird to me
26. That’s why doing nothing is weird to me
27. Doing nothing has been the exact opposite of my personality for the last 12 years
28. People might call me a workaholic
29. But when you’re a designer, or anything else for that matter
30. If you really love what you do, and you do it as a hobby as well, does that make it a job?
31. Sometimes I do design work that I don’t like, or that doesn’t turn out like I hoped
32. We all have jobs like that, everything you do can’t be a masterpiece after all
33. But I’m always working on my masterpiece in my spare time
34. My next side project piece of design that will be absolutely amazing, honestly
35. And that nobody else has a say in other than me
36. I guess you could call that art, but lets not get into that argument today
37. Maybe you’re not the same, but I find inertia contagious
38. I find if I do nothing for even an hour, I don’t want to do anything for the rest of the day
39. If I want to exercise on an...