I am a recent convert to podcasts, turned to them specially after my good friends visit from California. Anyways, off the many things I subscribe to now one thing I am regular with is Ted Radio hour from NPR. The podcast runs for an hour or so in which they combine multiple ted talks on a particular topic, in essence it is a superset of ted talks.
One such Ted talk that I recently heard were on Creativity, they covered few different aspects for creativity
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Not being selfish, no me and mine
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Ability to fall on your face and make mistakes
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Frontal cortex of brain or as we call Ego which monitors me and mine to be off
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Practice a lot of it also helps
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Creativity needs to be nurtured
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Showing up every day and being consistent about the process
All good points, one thing I really loved if they had covered was aspect of meditation. For a good meditation more than a few criterion listed above are to be met and in my experience more and more creative ideas flow right after a good meditation. As Shri Shri Ravishankar says for a good meditation, you want nothing, you are nothing and then sit with that attitude and meditation will happen.
Our Art of Living center here in Austin do offer Meditation courses among others. Needless to say there is the Happiness Program which is also offered on a regular basis which helps one with the awareness of interaction between the different layers of existence.
On other hand people say, meditate on the issue that you want to solve and I believe that is the most useless thing to do.
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