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Season 3 - Episode 249 - A lesson from Albert Einstein · 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 again today.
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  And this is a quote from Albert Einstein, one of my favourites
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  on the subject. And of course it comes from one
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  of my biggest. He just inspires me all the
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  time. He's just I'm infatuated with.
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  A lot of his. Thoughts and how he could.
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  Shift gears. From that analytical side.
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  To that creative side, oh, it's just.
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  So cool. But anyway, back to the.
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  Quote creativity is. Intelligence, having fun and
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  just think. About that for a second,
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  creativity is. Intelligence, having fun, and
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  creativity. Is supposed.
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  To be fun we are supposed to have fun in our lives and so
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  often my experience has been being a.
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  Uber creative. Person that people tend to think
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  you're crazy. So they.
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  Give you opinions, they tell you why things won't work.
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  They give you that look, that twisted face, the side eye.
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  Of like, really, you're going to try that?
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  Meanwhile these are people that don't go out and try things in
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  their own life. Meanwhile, these are.
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  People that. Sit on the sidelines waiting for
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  things to happen, and they don't do creative things, they just.
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  Give. Nasty opinions or opinions that
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  are unwanted or unwarranted in any way, shape or form.
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  And you? Have to deal with that.
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  As a creative now, here's. What's really tricky about this
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  because. Most creative people, myself
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  included, tend to. Have high senses of empathy.
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  And be. Intuitive so.
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  We operate in a very different way.
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  We feel things more than anything like even though I'm I
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  could say I'm off the chart. Visual I still have that high
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  high level to feel very like I. Feel my way through things more
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  than anything. So what?
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  Does that do when you run into someone?
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  Who is? Giving you those opinions and
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  telling you why things wouldn't work.
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  Well, it can sideline you and you have to remember.
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  This quote because this is what it's supposed to be.
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  Your answer. This is This is.
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  The true answer to it? All creativity.
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  Is intelligence having fun? So when you can remember that
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  and you run into these opinions or these.
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  Thoughts that are. Less than desirable, less than
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  something you want to put on your bus.
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  You don't want to open the door on the bus for this kind of
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  crap. You need to.
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  Keep it. Out so you.
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  Have to remind yourself. If.
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  Albert Einstein, if Mr. Einstein can say, hey, you know.
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  What there put that? Aside, and remember this is just
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  your intelligence having fun. You can say.
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  To them, hey, you know what? I'm just experimenting.
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  I'm having fun. I'm seeing what's happening.
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  An experiment has failures. An experiment.
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  Has lots of failures and it's OK.
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  I'm OK with it. Because.
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  We've never done anything on this planet getting ahead with
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  anything that we have created. Without having it go sideways.
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  And having to change our approach, change our approach,
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  change our approach. Failure is part of success.
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  End of. Story.
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  People don't want to talk about. The failure, but it is a huge
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  part of it. And when you can talk about it
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  and you can learn from it, great.
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  But you just got to remember, it's not taking away from your
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  intelligence, it's just showing you what didn't work, showing
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  you what didn't work. It's just like Edison said when
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  he was interviewed. How?
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  Does it feel to know you failed 1000 times?
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  And he said. I just figured out.
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  What didn't work? 1000 times Best answer.
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  Ever. So how does this all relate back
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  to? Your creativity on a daily
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  basis. Well, this is.
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  Where when you're in the weeds daily and you have all these
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  things going on around you that are impeding your process, you
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  don't want to know, not just. Your process but your progress,
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  OK, it does both. Believe me, you have to remember
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  when you can. Think about the fact that it's
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  supposed. To be fun and you tap.
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  Into the fun. Side of.
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  It. You're.
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  Giving yourself a great great. Gift in those moments.
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  Because you're. Realizing, hey, I'm just having
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  fun. I'm supposed to have fun, I'm
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  supposed. To go through this life.
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  And have some fun fun. The purpose of life is to be
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  happy as. The Dalai Lama has said many
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  times. So if we're.
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  Happy and we're just having fun and we're experimenting.
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  All of a sudden everything changes.
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  And when you believe. You haven't.
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  Lost your mind in the process? Of your.
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  Creativity, meaning you're. Still logical?
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  You're still. Using your intelligence.
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  All of a sudden you don't feel so bad for it.
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  And that's what's really important.
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  I can remember when I first started talking about, you know.
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  This chicken coop podcast. How is it that I'm going to do?
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  Motivational stuff. From the chicken coop, how am I
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  going to? Tie that all together.
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  And I wanted to. Teach everybody about.
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  This very thing because. It's so.
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  Incredibly important to me. To be able to do this.
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  In a creative. Way to show all of.
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  You not only what? Is possible, but what is
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  probable? And that is the whole thing.
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  That's what's so great about this.
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  So remember. As.
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  You go forward, keep your creativity high.
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  Have fun with it and use your intelligence.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.