SOAK #10
This week on Soak, Copyworking, the Book about Creativity, Cultural Entertainment and Differences of Context
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This week:
Copyworking
The Book about Creativity
Polynesian Cultural Entertainment
Differences of Context
1. 🧽 What I’m Soaking In
Last week I came across the concept of Copyworking.
Copyworking is transcribing copy by hand. It’s the best way to get familiar with the wording, style, and nuances of the best copywriters in the world.
It also improves learning, because since handwriting is slower than typing, you get more conscientious about what you’re writing and you assimilate more.
This means that transcribing by hand isn’t only useful for Copywriting sources, it can help you retain more information from any sources you like.
I’m creating a few resources for this, I’ll share them with you soon in case you want to try it.
2. ✍️ Writing
Chase Jarvis is one of my favorite people when it comes to sharing knowledge, especially about creativity and content creation.
Podcasts, YouTube, books, newsletters, everything he does he delivers.
Last week he stepped out as CEO of CreativeLive (the company he co-founded) and is now entering a new chapter of his life, and I bet good things are coming.
In the meantime, I leave you with this article I wrote about his book Creative Calling,
3. 💣Recommendations
A friend of mine shared a video on Facebook and I found it great.
After a little bit of research, I found out that “The Chief” is Chief Sielu, an actor and entertainer (among other things) that used to work at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii, in the early 2000s.
Watch the 2 clips for a few minutes of laughing.
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I’m not sure if the show still takes place at the Center, at least with this kind of humor, but I’m sure that nowadays there are a lot of people that would feel offended by some of the jokes or by the use of cultural traditions as a source of entertainment.
To those people: “Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.“
As for Chief Sielu, what a piece!
4.✔️ Fun Trivia
Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese writer, and one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. He got famous in part due to his use of heteronyms, the imaginary figures that he created to write different works, each one with its own style and visions of the world.
Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath from the 16th century, becoming known in history as the father of modern science and observational astronomy.
Having lived in different centuries, these two figures also worked in different fields, but one thing unites them deeply. They shared an equally deep interest in Astrology, making it a central part of their work.
But if in the case of Pessoa that fact was always well accepted and even marketed as proof of his geniality (like by emphasizing the completed astrological maps that he created for each of his heteronyms), with Galilei happened the opposite, with the scientific community almost hiding that fact from his bio.
Having one of the most famous scientists of all time deeply interested in a subject that has always been rejected by the scientific community is not good publicity for them.
Associating a literary genius with a field of study that is not well understood by most people is.
Context can dictate an outcome.
🏁Finish Line
And that’s it!
I hope you enjoyed this, please feel free to comment if you have something to say.
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Thank you for doing this with me, I hope I’ll see you next week!
-Danny