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How Micro Decisions Lead to Huge Success // Stan Prokopenko

Kristian Nee

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0:00 Start
1:00 Ikiagi
5:18 Letting the brain work itself
10:45 Doubting Kristian's Billion Dollar Question
11:43 be okay with failure
14:52 Limited by habit Pt. 1
16:45 Opportunity cost
18:05 Focus energy
19:39 Working debihilitatingly hard
22:44 How to justify being an artist
29:50 AI doesn't mean anything
33:40 Don't be okay with failure
38:55 Roadmap of success?
40:25 Roadmap of Kristian's success
43:17 Skills vs. Opportunity
47:40 Guilt "I should be doing something else"
49:19 Limited by habit Pt. 2
50:28 You were always ready

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20 Comments

@KristianNeeTV Creator 1 year ago Pinned

Check out Stan’s kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/proko/proko-art-books

@ProkoTV 1 year ago

Thanks for the chat and giving me a chance to wear my cool jacket on camera lol

@pulsevzero 1 year ago

At some points it felt like Stan just wanted to burst out like “what the hell are you talking about!” 😂

@gevz_official 1 year ago

seems there's a lot stan could have shared but the questioning style doesn't allow it. hope this gets better in the future.

@RealityHasntHitYet 8 months ago

Its awesome to see stan push back a lot. Especially the extremes. Shows strong values.

@seanodaniels 1 year ago (edited)

The whole interview is Stan ..." Wut are you talking about? " "What do you want?"

@musubi-bi 1 year ago

I like how stinging and straightforward Stan's responses are lol, he's definitely challenging your interview syle to be a bit more specific and less presupposing, still interesting and entertaining though!

@welfrion6762 1 year ago

Hearing artists talk about their careers makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry and laugh simultaneously

@pampamtamtam4001 1 year ago

I love Stan's frankness in interviews and the Draftsmen podcast. Wonderful interview.
I found the comments about being able to make the frequent and daily small decisions to be the most impactful for me. That is what it comes down to in the end when it comes to improving. What I find most challenging about that is having a sense of urgency enough to act against choosing the comfortable path.

@simianmyth1653 1 year ago (edited)

“-You beat ‘em up?🤨
-Yeah 😐…
-🙂‍↕️”

This interview was great. When I watch Proko’s videos I’m always like “meh” but Proko as a person is surprisingly likable 🤨

@jayedwin98020 6 months ago (edited)

Actually knowing what you truly want to do is the question, isn't it? • But determining the answer to that question is initially the real difficult problem!

@theforgedone 1 year ago (edited)

Loved hearing proko's take on being an artist and finding success in business

@cokecan6169 1 year ago

i feel like you could offer more open ended questions and less rhetorical ones, especially around stuff like creativity vs income, believe this popped up in the patrick jones interview as well. more time for them to offer individual insights.

@Khaleddraws 1 year ago

"The obsession on how it's received". Man I feel you lol

@Schnuersenkelfon 8 months ago

Man, I discovered you on an interview with steve Houston in a van. Looked very cozy and almost underground like. Yesterday I watched some of your livestream and your feedback on artworks, with a sharp view on the details (I hope this is understandable, I´m not english mothertongue). I like how you keep the community together, like Proko does. Cheers!

@Geloarc-ni4ze 1 year ago

My favourite part of this whole interview was when Stan asked you at the end what wanted.

@aishaw132 1 year ago (edited)

Good talk ❤ Proko responses are so genuine lol. Priorities are different for each person. So what makes someone happy isn't conventional.

@onetruetroy 1 year ago

Just reimagining Breaking Bad about an art teacher and student developing radical art techniques and concocting superior artist paints, just to make a ton of money.