Potent Systems: Rituals of a Multi-hyphenate Creative with Maceo Paisley

What’s his secret? How does he get unstuck? Overcomes his fears?

Continuing our series about the habits and systems of prolific creators, today we have a very special guest, Maceo Paisley.

Maceo is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and cultural producer who explores themes in society and identity through movement, language, and imagery. After serving in the army and climbing the ladders of corporate America, Maceo "Paisley" Keeling III, made his way into the world of arts, entertainment, and entrepreneurship. Maceo truly embodies what it means to work, play, and create as a multidimensional being, and we can’t wait for you to meet and muse with him.

To follow along with Maceo’s journey, connect with him here and here.

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“The way that you learn is not just by reading, and it’s not just by empirical study. You actually have to metabolize, fully ingest the text and allow it to get into your bloodstream and all the fibers of your being. So, I think that’s partly why autodidactism or self-guided learning works best for me.”
— Maceo Paisley
“I started to think about the places where I did well, and the places where I didn’t do well, and just started to lean more into cultivating environments like the ones where I was doing well, and then, I kept growing up and kept getting better at that, kept practicing at that. And now most of my work in terms of learning and creating is really about context setting.”
— Maceo Paisley
“My throat chakra is the area where I get the most tightness and where I hold a lot of anxiety. So it actually strengthened my greatest strength and my place of greatest vulnerability.”
— Maceo Paisley
“We are asking for transparency from our leadership, but we don’t know how to be honest in our relationships.”
— Maceo Paisley
“We can build pretty much any invention we can imagine. But are we imagining the right inventions to build?”
— Maceo Paisley
“We’re missing a lot of tools. But where we do have tools, we’re often missing practices. And then where we do have practices, we’re often missing care.”
— Maceo Paisley
“For me, the most valuable skill is systematizing. And even in the startup world, I think the word scaling is really just a euphemism for systematizing.”
— Maceo Paisley
“Problems at a certain scale don’t have solutions. All they have is processes.”
— Maceo Paisley

Show Notes

  • Learn more about our today’s guest, Maceo Paisley as a dancer, designer, thinker, and optimist

  • Getting inside of a concept, tearing it apart, and coming up with something new

  • Skill acquisition through transferable skills process

  • What are the primary skills you have gained in life that allow you to do many other things?

  • The systems, practices, and habits that allow creators to do the work that they do and really tap into that most creative flow state

  • The Keeling Manhood Code of Conduct

  • Why autodidactism or self-guided learning works best for most people

  • How to figure out the system that works?

  • Being passionate about meaningful content and helping people realize they're not alone in their feelings

  • The Meta Modern Era

  • Discover Maceo’s rituals

  • Identity, as defined by Maceo

  • A new process called zero-point thinking

  • Why dental care is too important for Maceo?

  • The Friend Show: patreon.com

Resources and People Mentioned

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