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Season 3 - Episode 246 - The emotional path of creativity · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So we're talking about creativity today, one of my most
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  favorite subjects. Oh, listen, there's Rufus going
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  off and we are talking about it because I am in super, super
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  creative mode right now. So maybe this we're going to do
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  a couple of these in a row. I'm not sure we'll see how it
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  goes. But this morning we're going to
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  talk about the path of creativity because I think it's
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  super important to recognize that it is not a straight line
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  when you are being creative. It's actually a squiggly line, a
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  very squiggly line. It's more, if you've, if you've
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  ever played with a Spirograph, Spirographs are a great way to
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  think of creativity because they're it's all back and forth.
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  It looks like a mess. And then when you pick it up,
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  it's like this beautiful little design that you've come up with.
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  So I'm going to outline the emotional path of it for me so
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  that you can see how this kind of works in my head,
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  recognizing, OK, I'm not abnormal with this.
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  I think it's always really important for us as human beings
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  to understand, is that normal? Am I crazy?
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  You know, we all have those varying thoughts.
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  I myself have them. Just ask somebody that the other
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  day, am I crazy? And I was assured I was not
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  crazy. So it felt good.
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  Even though I know a lot of this stuff, I still need outside
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  sources as well. And that's what's so important
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  to remember. We all need those resources.
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  So here's your peek inside my emotional path of creativity.
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  You know, I have this first thought is this is great.
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  I have an idea. Something pops into my head from
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  virtually nowhere as far as I can tell.
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  And then it's there. So I'm thinking, wow, this is
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  great. I'm like super enthusiastic
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  about it. And I start to get very excited
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  and the emotion is very high and excitement is very high.
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  And the next thing that shows up and you know, out of nowhere is
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  this could be tricky. Now, the reason I use the word
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  tricky is because I used to many years ago, go, oh, this isn't
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  going to work. But that emotion is not welcome
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  on that path anymore. And I can say it's going to be
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  interesting. I can say it's going to be
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  tricky. I can say I've got some things
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  to consider. I can go that route.
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  But I will never tell myself this is not going to work
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  because remember, I'm developing in this time frame a what, not a
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  how and how. You've heard me say this a
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  million times. How is what takes people out all
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  the time and ruins stuff. So we don't go to the how if we
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  don't have to. So this is tricky.
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  This could be tricky, this could be interesting.
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  Whatever it might be, we make sure we have a very clear
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  understanding of that and how we say it.
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  The next thing can be for me, often now I've confused myself.
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  I'm a little confused about where this is, because
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  oftentimes at this point, I might be coming up with two or
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  three things at the same time. Now, if you've taken How to
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  Write a Book in 90 Days, one of the courses that I OfferUp
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  online, it's an audio course. And if you've listened to it,
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  you know, in there, I say, especially if you're doing your
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  first book, oftentimes you're writing more than one book at a
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  time. At least I know for me that's
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  what happens. So you'll start something and
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  you'll have all these essential downloads coming out, but
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  they're not necessarily making sense because they they
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  shouldn't make sense. There are multiple things
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  happening at the same time. But when you uncork that
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  creativity, all of a sudden it's like, and it's like all over.
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  And then you have to sort out, am I doing multiple things at
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  the same time? And the answer is most likely
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  yes. So that's, that's a surprise to
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  when I tell people that because it's like it's OK to be confused
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  because you are it's, it's, it's genuine.
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  So recognize confusion. Then all of a sudden, here's
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  where it gets great because you say, wait, I see something.
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  I see that I'm writing two books, or I see that I'm writing
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  a course in a book, or I see that I'm making two different
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  boards at the same time, whatever it might be, I see
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  something. So clarity starts to show up,
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  which is like such a relief because now you know you're not
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  crazy, right? Then you go, OK, I'm back.
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  And you jump to that next emotion, which is I'm back on
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  track. I get it.
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  I can divide it. This is for me usually where I
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  start heavily whiteboarding things because now I can start
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  to see the pieces and I have a giant whiteboard that flips over
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  so I can have one side. That's just the brain dumps of
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  all the randomness and the other side that's divided so that I
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  can actually sort it all out. And then the last piece, which
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  is so much fun, is I nailed it. Like in the creative process,
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  I've nailed it. I've got it down.
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  I know where my path is going to be, where I'm going to begin,
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  what I'm doing, and then you start producing.
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  But that first wave of creativity is so important to
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  recognize that it does come with emotional back and forth.
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  And when you do that and you recognize that, all of a sudden
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  you feel so much more empowered and you feel so great about it
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  because you're not, you're not crazy.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day.
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  I hope this was helpful, and I hope you get to sort that out.
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  All right, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.