#128 - Baron Ryan - Chasing The Dream Might Be What's Blocking It

Baron Ryan is a writer and filmmaker whose deadpan short videos built an audience of millions, and whose first feature, Two Sleepy People, was written, shot, and edited in three months.

Baron Ryan believes the only thing that ever actually helped him was accepting that he is not special. In this conversation, we explore how giving up on a dream is what finally made it happen, why self-help books felt like doing the work without doing the work, how growing up homeschooled in Missouri with no cable built a pre-digital imagination, what writing three videos a day taught him that no writing class could, and why the weight you carry never gets lighter, you just get stronger. It is a conversation about making things honestly, and about what happens when you stop protecting the image of yourself.

Timestamps:

00:00 "Giving Up on Yourself"

05:09 The Environment that Creates You

07:07 Creative Style as a State of Being

14:45 Being Addicted to Self Help

20:25 I'm Not That Special

23:42 What Three Videos a Day Actually Looks Like

27:47 Shifting Focus from Short Form to Long Form

33:04 Letting the Characters Write the Story

39:47 The Misery You Prefer

44:51 Why Tim Started His Podcast

52:12 Listening to Your Intuition

55:48 Allowing Yourself to Be a "Person" First

1:02:39 Baron's Plans for Future Films

1:05:27 "Everyone's an Atheist Until They Make a Movie"

1:08:12 Closing Thoughts & How to Connect with Baron

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