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Carve Until You Set the Angel Free · The Daily Writer

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
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  SPEAKER_00: Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists who ever lived.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a sculptor, painter, designer, architect, and so much more, he transformed history and was a major force of the Italian Renaissance.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: But have you ever considered exactly what it was that made Michelangelo so great?
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Was it his creative genius, his relationship with powerful and influential people such as the Pope?
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  SPEAKER_00: His ability to organize massive projects such as the painting of the Sistine Chapel?
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, all those factors surely played a part in his greatness, but above all, Michelangelo was a guy who got things done.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: He finished projects and he saw them through to completion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Contrast this with his contemporary and his creative rival, Leonardo da Vinci.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: Even though Da Vinci had a wider range of creative interest, and he also had one of the most fertile minds in history, Da Vinci often left projects half finished.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: As anyone can see in his famous notebooks, Da Vinci was a guy who had lots of great ideas, but he had trouble translating them into practical reality.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Michelangelo once said, I saw an angel in the marble, and I carved until I set him free.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: In that quote, we like to focus on the angel in the marble, but let's not forget about the part where he kept carving until the angel was set free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marble is a very hard substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: It took Michelangelo four whole years working on his 16 foot statue of David until that was done.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: But eventually he finished and moved on to the next project.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: There's a great lesson there for all of us writers who are working on big major projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: You keep showing up every day, you keep carving and making a little bit of progress, and then one day, almost like magic, it's finished.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: That book you've been working on, that little angel, will sprout wings and finally fly.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: I want to take a moment to let you know about our daily writer membership community.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: One of the very best ways to develop better habits and impact more people's lives with your writing is to spend more time around other successful riders.
• 2:26
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• 2:44
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much, and I'll see you tomorrow.