Dr. Martha Beck

And these were skiing, surfing, golfing, oddly enough. I know, sailing, rock climbing. Things that demand extremely focused attention on the body kinesthetically moving through space. That is, you have to drive hard into your right hemisphere to make that work. Left hemisphere cannot do it.

And that's why, I don't know if you do any of those things, but if you do, you may have found them almost addictive. Yeah. Like, like people just, I've never surfed, but people will like, they live to surf. I used to live to ski. Now I live to do so many things because I have a list of activities that turn on the right side of my brain and I can always access one or more of them on any day.

And that's why, I don't know if you do any of those things, but if you do, you may have found them almost addictive. Yeah. Like, like people just, I've never surfed, but people will like, they live to surf. I used to live to ski. Now I live to do so many things because I have a list of activities that turn on the right side of my brain and I can always access one or more of them on any day.

And that's why, I don't know if you do any of those things, but if you do, you may have found them almost addictive. Yeah. Like, like people just, I've never surfed, but people will like, they live to surf. I used to live to ski. Now I live to do so many things because I have a list of activities that turn on the right side of my brain and I can always access one or more of them on any day.

What are the ones that you do the most? Drawing and painting. Yeah. So this painting behind me.

What are the ones that you do the most? Drawing and painting. Yeah. So this painting behind me.

What are the ones that you do the most? Drawing and painting. Yeah. So this painting behind me.

It's just, it's a painting of, I went on a walk with some friends through the Cotswolds last October. And that was a real place where we stopped and I took a picture and did a painting.

It's just, it's a painting of, I went on a walk with some friends through the Cotswolds last October. And that was a real place where we stopped and I took a picture and did a painting.

It's just, it's a painting of, I went on a walk with some friends through the Cotswolds last October. And that was a real place where we stopped and I took a picture and did a painting.

Yeah, just to say I am going to step out and be creative in our cultural context and with the anxiety most of us carry is an act of courage. And most of us have been shamed for trying to do creative things and not doing them well enough. And if we're really good at them, we got praised for them.

Yeah, just to say I am going to step out and be creative in our cultural context and with the anxiety most of us carry is an act of courage. And most of us have been shamed for trying to do creative things and not doing them well enough. And if we're really good at them, we got praised for them.

Yeah, just to say I am going to step out and be creative in our cultural context and with the anxiety most of us carry is an act of courage. And most of us have been shamed for trying to do creative things and not doing them well enough. And if we're really good at them, we got praised for them.

But as I told you a little while ago, even being praised for doing something creative or being told that you'll be paid for it increases anxiety. So it takes courage to say, I'm going to try this at all. And then it takes courage to know that you will fail to achieve the sort of surrounding culture's definition of what's impressive and that that is not the point.

But as I told you a little while ago, even being praised for doing something creative or being told that you'll be paid for it increases anxiety. So it takes courage to say, I'm going to try this at all. And then it takes courage to know that you will fail to achieve the sort of surrounding culture's definition of what's impressive and that that is not the point.

But as I told you a little while ago, even being praised for doing something creative or being told that you'll be paid for it increases anxiety. So it takes courage to say, I'm going to try this at all. And then it takes courage to know that you will fail to achieve the sort of surrounding culture's definition of what's impressive and that that is not the point.

I throw away hundreds of paintings because the point is not the painting. The point is painting. you don't go to the gym to steal all the equipment. You go to the gym or to lift it up in the air and let it stay there. You lift it and let it fall. You lift it and let it fall again over and over because what you take out of the gym is a different body because it has been engaged in that activity.

I throw away hundreds of paintings because the point is not the painting. The point is painting. you don't go to the gym to steal all the equipment. You go to the gym or to lift it up in the air and let it stay there. You lift it and let it fall. You lift it and let it fall again over and over because what you take out of the gym is a different body because it has been engaged in that activity.

I throw away hundreds of paintings because the point is not the painting. The point is painting. you don't go to the gym to steal all the equipment. You go to the gym or to lift it up in the air and let it stay there. You lift it and let it fall. You lift it and let it fall again over and over because what you take out of the gym is a different body because it has been engaged in that activity.

Anything you do that's creative is And everything we do is creative. Getting dressed or buying our clothes is a creative act. It involves aesthetic choices. Making food is a creative act. A conversation can be a creative act, a dinner party. Pretty much everything humans do can be seen as creative.