Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 139
My guest this week was Mike Garretson, former school teacher and baseball coach, now an author. You’ll have fun hearing about his three novels, Lucky Duck, Standstill, and Eric the Great and will find a link at the end of this column taking you to his website.
He began the show talking about how important it was to his family to gather around the dinner table to share stories—as one of six children he had to learn to bring his A game every night if he wanted to keep the audience.
I’ve spent lots of years exploring the many roles that story plays in our lives, in our businesses, for our country, and it is clear that stories told by families have powerful benefits for those families.
Families that share more stories have children and young adults who have more self-esteem, a higher sense of meaning and purpose, and lower anxiety. The researcher Marshall Duke concluded “If you want a happier family create, refine, and retell the stories of your family’s positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.”
Family stories also describe the people in our families, who they are, what they are like, how characteristics are shared throughout the family. This creates strong family bonds.
This is why we crave family stories: They help us understand where we come from, who we are, and who we strive to be.
www.mikegarretson.wordpress.com
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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