Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 46
Last week, Vince Bayyan was the guest on “Exploring Your Creative Genius.”
Vince talked about his creative career in a fashion that was a near-perfect capture of how more and more of us are making our way in life — creating our careers from a job here, an opportunity there. Sure, we might follow an established path for a period of time, but the 30 year career paths with few exceptions don’t exist anymore, really can’t exist anymore, so learning to do what we can with what we have where we are as we build our lives is our way forward facing an Unknowable Future.
Two topics I want to revisit with you: When Vince told us about 64 Squares, the hip-hop martial arts chess academy he leads, he made the important point that movement was a common quality of all those practices.
I got to say, right on. All my experience as an entrepreneur and creative professional and all my study to be an effective teacher tells me that when we move we are smarter by a significant margin.
First, we have intelligences all throughout our bodies and they often aren’t fully engaged unless we are moving. Folks who schedule walking meetings have either seen the research or have an intuitive sense this is so.
Second, as we move we enjoy experiences, and when we integrate them—consciously or subconsciously—we are gaining new insights and new perspectiveS.
Set a timer to get up from your desk every 20 minutes or so, and move.
Walk. When you reach your natural stride the two hemispheres of your brain integrate, so the logical and analytical are playing with the non-linear and imaginative. That’s when you are most effective at problem solving and opportunity development.
Another point Vince made, and it’s laid out here, is the creative value of synthesizing. When you pull together, mash up, or combine existing elements the new creation can be brimming with freshness. Combining chess, hip hop, and martial arts into an original leadership program captures the best of all these practices as it makes them new.
“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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