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Season 3 - Episode 251 - Logic, creativity, and the fear of being wrong · 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've been talking about creativity all week long and one
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  thing that I really want to address today is the fear of
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  being wrong. So I had somebody message me
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  after listening to the first couple days and they said, hey,
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  I'm concerned every time I go to do something creative that I'm
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  going to do it wrong and then I'm going to have to deal and
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  feel in the failure deal and feel in the failure.
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  I thought that was such an interesting way to say it,
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  meaning not only that they have to think about it, they had to
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  feel it all day that they had made errors and that those
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  errors were going to stick with them.
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  Well, the first thing I want to tell you is the biggest enemy of
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  creativity is logic. OK, so you're using your logical
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  mind. When that shows up for you, your
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  logical mind is saying you've wasted time, You've done this,
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  you've done that, and you have to remember that you've wasted
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  money. All of these things.
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  Well, that's all a crock of crap and it's not true because you
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  have learned in the process. Whether you believe that you
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  haven't learned or not, trust me, you've learned.
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  You just maybe haven't sat out of the negative emotions to see
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  what have I learned. You know, two years ago I took a
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  coaching course for myself personally and it was a very
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  expensive course and it it was supposed to be something very
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  different, six months long. It was going to help me get
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  clear on some messaging that I wanted.
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  It was a very small group of people I was going to be working
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  with and I had known the person who was teaching it.
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  So I thought, OK, this is going to be good.
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  And it turned out to be nothing of what I thought.
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  It turned out to be the absolute opposite of it.
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  Now, in the process of going through it, did I get
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  aggravated? Yes, I got aggravated.
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  I promise you. I got aggravated because I'm
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  human and I also grew up in Massachusetts.
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  So getting aggravated is a thing.
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  I say that to all my my friendly Massachusetts people that
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  listen, but you know what I mean?
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  So I had to deal with that and I kept bringing myself back,
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  bringing myself back, bringing myself back and saying, OK, what
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  and what am I learning? What am I learning?
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  And then I'd hear myself go, You're aggravated that they
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  didn't deliver. Yes.
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  And all of that was true. It was true.
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  But I had to remember that I was there for a creative stint.
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  I was there to go on a trip into a possibility that I didn't know
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  yet. I was looking for something
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  different. And I had to reckon with the
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  fact that I was dealing with the fact that I was kept thinking I
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  was wrong for doing the class. And I kept thinking, Oh my gosh,
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  I shouldn't have done this. This was so much money.
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  Why did I do this? That was going on in the back of
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  my head. It wasn't the bus driver, but it
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  was probably like four seats back, if that makes sense.
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  And I kept hearing it and I had to deal with it.
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  So as the class comes to a conclusion, I'm more as, as our
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  friend, you know, has said many times to me that I, I get
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  clearer when I have that deadline.
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  And sometimes that's true. I do, I get clearer when I have
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  the deadline 'cause I know I, I'm, I just can't be on this
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  walkabout forever. So as the class is coming to a
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  conclusion, I recognize that what I can take away as a huge
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  gift is that I know what I don't want.
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  I didn't know what I wanted, but I knew what I didn't want
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  anymore. And I sat and I wrote down all
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  the things that I did not want that I learned in the class.
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  And lo and behold, by doing that, it gave me a very clear
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  map to what I do want. Now, I do this with clients all
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  the time, but thinking of doing it for myself, that was out of
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  the ordinary. I, I just didn't think that
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  that's what was going to happen with this class.
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  So I wasn't executing in that way.
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  So I said to myself, I've been in my logical mind so much, I
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  forgot that that logic mind can be the enemy of the creativity.
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  And I was looking for the conclusion and I had a fear of
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  being wrong about it. So blending all of that
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  knowledge in gave me permission to say, OK, you know what, Guess
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  what? You know what you don't want
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  now, and that's a good thing. When you know what you don't
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  want, you can start the elimination process.
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  You can start by gathering more pertinent information to move
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  you forward in the growth process.
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  And that's exactly what ended up happening.
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  And then lo and behold, I was able to get the messaging clear,
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  get the people in line, do everything that we needed to do,
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  and it was done. So I want you all to remember,
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  it's not just you that gets stuck in this process.
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  It's all of us. It's me too.
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  It happens every single time. I promise you, every time I go
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  into creative Zone, I have to make sure I understand what
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  logic is doing because if logic is present and too much of it is
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  showing up, it will kill my creative zone.
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  So keep that in mind. Do not allow yourself to have
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  excuses, lose your fear of being wrong, and just go with the
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  flow. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.