Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 38
On episode 34 of “Exploring Your Creative Genius,” we spoke with local artist and creative coach Marielle Hare. The conversation was such a success I invited her back for more of her wisdoms to be shared in this week’s episode, where she focused her stories this time on the creative importance of Nature and Play.
Nature
We are of and from nature, nature is us, and so it makes sense that spending time is such an effective nurture of the create capacities we all possess. It cultivates curiosity, reverence, and joy, all important to living a full long life.
Research shows that after just 15 minutes in nature are brains enter a state where we are better equipped to think fresh about problems and explore with new perspectiveS your opportunities.
Back in the day I would have walking meetings with clients in the woods. We riffed off each other in ways we never would in an office.
And walking on the uneven ground in the woods and meadows and the shore, additional research reveals, helps the two hemispheres of your brain integrate, so the logical is playing with the imaginative.
Play
Don’t you love Marielle’s definition of Play, especially for adults?
“It’s a curious exploration without a known outcome.”
A phrase I use that overlaps more than a little with what Marielle is getting at is ‘Wondering while Wandering.’
You refresh. You smile. You find yourself in new places, developing new perspectiveS.
It didn’t come up in this show but Marielle has shared a great Play activity she will often do while driving. She will look for something up ahead or by the side of the road and identify a particular object or person or situation and make up a story of why this is really important to her…maybe a secret message is being communicated.
It’s the surprise of what comes from an open-ended behavior that allows your imagination to lead you.
“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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