Dave Evans

Be present with yourself and see what comes up.

You know, standing in front of a big blank canvas and I'm going, oh, the world really needs an older white guy painter because we need more painters in the world.

And I'm going to paint something and no one's going to care.

So I go through all that stuff in my head.

And then if I quiet down for a little while and I, you know, just stare at this thing, I get an idea.

Then I get another idea and I get another idea.

And pretty soon,

The painting is painting itself and everything is wonderful.

But boy, everybody's got that moment where they're like, oh, this isn't going to work or this is stupid or this is useless.

I have that all the time.

Yeah.

Or you can lean into the other world you've taught us about.

Pick up a brush and put something on the canvas.

So flow is that state where time stands still, you're in the moment by definition, because that's where you are fully engaged.

And it's a moment where actually you're making energy.

Psychologists will say it's an energy generating moment because it just feels so good.

Dopamine and other good chemicals going in your brain.

And some of this comes from the work of Dr. Lisa Miller from Columbia.

She kind of updated the left brain, right brain model.

We said the right brain was the creative brain and the left brain is the analytical brain.