The Graffiti Machine
Our goal is to uplift the graffiti culture by sharing personal development information from a graffiti writer’s perspective; improve the culture by helping writers improve themselves.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 155
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
136 - Nothing Lasts
It may sound negative to think about things being temporary, but I find it makes me appreciate things much more. If our pets, loved ones, belongings, our lives were not temporary, it would be easy to…
00:15:42 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
135 - Why not you?
In the age of social media and endless highlight reels we have access to, it's easy to think, "I wish I had that" or "I wish I could do that," etc. From a lecture by Jim Rohn, he asked a very powerfu…
00:13:45 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
134 - Effort Over Outcome
This episode dives into the concept of doing the work for its own sake, drawing inspiration from Steven Pressfield's The War of Art. It emphasizes the importance of showing up every day and committin…
00:12:26 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
133 - Resolve
I got the guy's name wrong in the video, it's Jim Rohn. I saw a clip of his video that talked about resolve defined as keeping the promise to yourself to never quit. It got me thinking about a bunch …
00:12:59 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
132 - Earn Your Keep
Running a graffiti supply business, I frequently get asked for free products in exchange for exposure. The problem? 99.9% of the time, the person asking hasn’t put in the work to make the exchange mu…
00:10:33 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
131 - Scarcity Mindset
If hearing about other people's wins makes us feel bad about our own position, it could be a sign of a scarcity mindset. There seems to be something in us that, when we see others winning, we feel li…
00:15:37 |
Fri 02 Aug 2024
130 - Never Give Up?
Most have probably seen that illustration of the guy walking away from digging, with diamonds just inches away. He gave up just before hitting it big. The idea of pushing forward versus quitting can …
00:16:24 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
129 - Low Frequency Moments
Sometimes, it may feel like the way we feel at any given time defines who we are. Statements like "I'm an anxious person" or "I'm a stressed-out guy" do not capture our whole reality. Instead of thin…
00:12:35 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
128 - One more shot!
Sometimes it takes just one more effort for everything to change. Many people have experienced struggles, only to have one moment, meeting, phone call, or social media post transform their lives. Wit…
00:14:51 |
Thu 20 Jun 2024
127: Massive Action
I've been super stressed out over the last month or so. Business is weird and there are a great deal more complexities than I'm used to. This started to lead to a bit of paralysis on my part. I was w…
00:19:26 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
126 - Addictive Thought Patterns
I've been thinking about how our thought patterns can become addicting. Just like a thermostat keeps your house at a set temperature, your brain can maintain a baseline of negative thoughts if that's…
00:31:35 |
Sat 08 Jun 2024
125: I Might Be Wrong
An interesting section of the book How to Win Friends and Influence People discusses the value of being comfortable with the possibility of being wrong. Even if you 'know' you're right, starting a se…
00:17:37 |
Thu 30 May 2024
124: Should we add graffiti interviews?
I'm going to start doing interviews with graffiti writers and have a question for you. Would you like to see/hear this kind of content on this show, or would you prefer it just stays the way it is? R…
00:05:43 |
Fri 24 May 2024
123: Focus
There's a part of your brain called the reticular activating system (RAS). It acts as a sort of filter. If you think about something a lot, the RAS will show you more of it. For example, if you want …
00:25:13 |
Thu 23 May 2024
122 Done is Better Than Perfect
It's easy to put so much pressure on ourselves when trying to get something perfect. Sometimes the desire to get something exactly right can lead to not finishing at all. Sometimes striving for finis…
00:17:38 |
Thu 16 May 2024
121 - Darkness Flees From Light
If we want things to get better, whether that is in our community, family, or even the world, it starts with improving ourselves. It may not seem like making ourselves better will help anything, but …
00:21:16 |
Thu 09 May 2024
120 - Master the Mundane
How to you treat the mundane tasks in your life? It's often easy to half-ass the basic tasks that seem meaningless, but how does that look to those around you? How does it look to your own subconscio…
00:17:59 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
119: Celebrate Their Wins
Something I've been trying to change about my mindset is when I hear about someone else's success when it's greater than what I've accomplished, I often allow that to make me feel bad about my own su…
00:16:52 |
Sun 21 Apr 2024
118 - The Good Old Days
On my way to the shop yesterday, I was thinking about the 'good old days'. It was sparked when I did a style of graffiti that I hadn't done in close to 30 years. The 70+ comments on the piece on Inst…
00:19:06 |
Thu 11 Apr 2024
117 - In Search of a Stress Free Life
I wanted to share a quote from the book Thick Face Black Heart on page 141.
This chapter talks about if we had the ability to remove all negative experiences from our lives, it would not make us stre…
00:10:03 |
Sat 06 Apr 2024
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