Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Craving attention is killing your creativity

Media People Newsletter
Written and curated by Victor Genova · August 28, 2024 · Issue #16

Welcome to the sixteenth issue of the Media People Newsletter. Subscribe here if you haven’t already. In this issue:

• Debbie Benadiba from Talon OOH Canada stops by the podcast

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Craving attention makes you less creative

• From the Media People Podcast archives: Blue Ant Media President, Jamie Schouela [2019]

🔉Debbie Benadiba, Talon OOH Canada CEO stops by episode 104 of the Media People Podcast. We chat:

🎯Launching new digital ad products at CHUM Radio and Rogers Media
🎯The impact networking has on career growth
🎯Why orthodontics was the original life plan
🎯Why dance is her lifelong passion
🎯Leading Talon OOH Canada

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and online at mediapeople.ca.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Craving Attention Makes You Less Creative

“If your creativity is driven by a desire to get attention, you’re never going to be creatively fulfilled”.

Wait what? That can’t be right! And coming from an actor/celebrity! Isn’t attention endemic to their success?

Celebrities aren’t immune to the downsides of social media. In this TED Talk, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt shares how chasing (social media) followers left him with a sense of inadequacy. But above all, he lays out an argument for how it rendered him less creative—something that anyone in the creative industries should dread.

So what is the solution? It turns out that paying attention is far more powerful than chasing it. It’s a refreshing video that speaks to people optimizing their life for likes, shares, and followers.

From the Media People Podcast Archives: Blue Ant Media President, Jamie Schouela [2019]

Jamie Schouela, Blue Ant Media's [then] President of Canadian Media stops by to chat.

A Montreal native with a life-long passion entertainment, Jamie always found a way to tie this passion into both his academic and work life.

From campus DJ to summer student running the promo van for a Montreal radio station, after university Jamie moved into full-time marketing gigs for some of the biggest names in Canadian media including Alliance Atlantis, Canwest, and Shaw Media.The episode originally aired in January of 2019.

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and online at mediapeople.ca