Dave Evans
speaker
2,777 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
It's more nuanced than that.
And her model is there's the achieving brain, the transactional brain, and the awakened brain is where we experience flow, where we experience spirituality, where we experience a connection to something bigger than ourselves.
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