{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Creative with Todd Henry","slug":"daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412","podcast_index_feed_id":745412,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/tac/","website_url":"https://podcast.toddhenry.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/9036ecb3-7066-499c-873b-83e69653acb5/pbtCeNzYBzprBYXXEOtXAcPo.jpg","author":"Todd Henry","episode_count":128,"summary":"Formerly The Accidental Creative. Being a creative professional should be the greatest job in the world. You get to solve problems, express yourself, bring something new into the world and you get paid to do it. What's not to love. Yet every day, creative pros face, tremendous pressure and uncertainty. The temptation is just to play it safe, surrender to distraction and settle for less than your best daily creative is about making sure that's not your story. Each episode focuses on a topic relevant to creative pros, like how to come up with ideas under pressure, or how the collaborate when you're overwhelmed, or how to lead your team and help them discover motivation. It's time to fall back in love with your work. Listen to Daily Creative wherever you get your podcasts or subscribe in the Daily Creative app at dailycreative.app.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T12:18:36.008720+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412"},"episode":{"title":"The Price of Becoming","slug":"the-price-of-becoming","published_at":"2026-07-21T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412/the-price-of-becoming","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412","url":"https://podcast.toddhenry.com/119","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2aaacafe-df9e-4b5a-8cdb-0dd6256972f0.mp3","summary":"In 1852, a mid-level postal surveyor named Anthony Trollope gave Britain its iconic red pillar mailbox. He also wrote 47 novels, most of them before breakfast, 250 words every 15 minutes with a pocket watch on his desk. When he told the truth about his method in his autobiography, critics wrote him off for decades. People wanted genius to descend like weather. Trollope knew it was assembled, a small daily task at a time. My guest today wrote his newest book exactly the same way: 100 words every morning before his family woke up, no misses, even on a cruise ship. Ryan Hawk is the host of The Learning Leader Show , one of the most listened-to business podcasts in the world with more than 650 conversations behind it. His new book, The Price of Becoming , starts with a question borrowed from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger: if compounding can turn boring, consistent deposits into extraordinary wealth, what happens when you apply the same math to your life? In this conversation, we talk about: The nightly question Ryan borrowed from Charlie Munger: did I go to bed a little wiser than I woke up? Ryan's learning flywheel: fuel the intake engine, run experiments, pause and reflect, then teach Why teaching is the most overlooked accelerant of learning, and why Ryan requires every leader he works with to regularly lead a training Writing what's true versus writing what's merely accurate How Ryan wrote over 100,000 words starting with just 100 words a day, and why most of them were garbage (and why that's the point) Paul Rabil's 100 shots a day, no misses, and what it built beyond lacrosse Why \"any excuse softens the character,\" and why endurance beats brilliance The free throw lesson my dad taught me: 121 in a row, and losing sight of the goal behind the goal Why leading yours…","meta_description":"In 1852, a mid-level postal surveyor named Anthony Trollope gave Britain its iconic red pillar mailbox. He also wrote 47 novels, most of them before break…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1916,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412/episodes/the-price-of-becoming/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412/the-price-of-becoming.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}