RiskCreativity

Triangle

1. The breathing exercise was great:

In -- Out

Deep -- Slow

Calm -- Ease

As is -- I'm here

2. The Grip: ouch! This is all too common. Great conversation with loved ones.

3. Resilience is about your self-efficacy:

A Adverse event

B How you cope with it (Beliefs)

C Consequence

Square

What resonates most? Conversation about the Comfort Zone. It reminded me of my AME PhD experience because I entered into the program with almost unlimited openness to experience, new ideas, and new learning. After 3 years, I exited with fear, trauma, and severely reduced ability to entertain new things. It illustrates to me that one must be very careful in the world to avoid people and situations that are detrimental to one's ability to flourish.

Circle

I'm wary of goals because I've learned that specifying goals with too much detail can fool the brain into believing that the goal has already been achieved, thereby dulling motivation. I believe there have been recent studies on this topic. I'm interested in hearing thoughts and discussion about how people set goals that are motivating.

Reflections_180907

I missed class today because we're in Hawaii. But, I was able to have a breakthrough in my thoughts about creativity. Here it goes...

I was struggling with a metaphor for my creative process because I have a conflict. I think of myself as being extremely imaginative, but "creating" things makes life messy and complicated. I'm very intolerant of details and complexity, and I've spent a lot of time over the past few years cleaning up messes that were generated as a result of my actions around creative inspiration.

What to do?

I realized this week that creativity for me is a process of discovery. I merely uncover things that are already there, rather than creating them. As a discoverer of things that are already there, I am not responsible for managing, organizing or dismantling them. They have a life of their own.

Since I figured this out, I've felt much better about how life is going, and I'm feeling much more free to do things without constraining myself with expectations or responsibility.

My metaphor is the Laysan Albatross who soars high above the Pacific Ocean, following the unseen undersea ridges where cold water rises to the surface carrying krill for the Albatross to eat.