[Music]
ladies and gentlemen thank you for
having me here such an honor today I
wanted to share with you some of the
learnings that I’ve made in my journey
and weed relationship that I’ve had with
creativity so this is the title of my
talk living a creative life and times of
change I want to share with you some of
the things that I’ve learned traveling
from someone who is the farthest away
from creativity you know called the
scientist type I could never identify
myself as someone who was creative
because my belief system didn’t have it
too
traveling to someone whose yeah I got a
good Priya tivity practice going on and
I’m pretty happy about it so I just
wanted to share with you some of the
tools that I use some of the ways that I
look at creativity because one of the
main things that I’ve learned about
creativity is that it’s a result of what
happens when you interact with life but
in what way specifically it’s when you
get to influence life as much as life
gets to influence you so it’s a
relationship and I want to talk about
that because there’s not a lot of focus
on creativity as a choice and if we look
at this diagram here those are some of
the words that we’ve come to associate
creativity with you know in essence
they’re concepts that we’ve come to
build to help us understand creativity
and there’s been a lot but if I have to
comment on the general approach that
we’ve been taking is that we’ve been
having a really intellectual and
cerebral approach towards creativity and
which is fine you know it’s good to see
if like the reason Mozart was a virtuoso
pianist was because when he was young he
was really smarter he could have a full
range of hearing and all things like
that
but that’s not the reason why he became
a virtuoso pianist the other side that
we never explore up not never explore we
rarely explore is the fact that the the
element of choice the element of
decision
it could creativity be a way of life
that’s something that you choose to
become and that’s what I really wanted
to you know highlight here and if we
think about it like in the iceberg so if
we’ve been intellectualizing
creativity and that’s what we’ve only
scratched the surface now the great
thing about icebergs is that only 10% is
on the surface the 90% is down here so
if we analogize that to your ability to
feel there’s so much more about
creativity that we don’t understand and
that we need new paradigms in order to
look at it differently you know and so
it leads us to the question what is
really creativity and what does it have
to do with change so one of the ways
that I like to use myself in order to
understand creativity is this way so
look at it through the lens of what you
can and cannot control right and that
sweet spot in the middle is there like a
little thing here the thing in the
middle there is when creativity happens
so let’s have a look at some of the
things that you can and cannot control
life change an opportunity notice how
change life and opportunity are the
things that we can’t control and the
common denominator in those examples is
you so in essence if you look at
creativity this way it takes it away
from something that you inherit to
something that you got to work on
so from lottery to something you’re
working on it’s not entirely out of your
control but it’s not entirely within
your control either so you have to build
a practice around it and that’s why I
symbolize the yin and yang it’s about
you meeting the opportunity when it
comes
that’s what creativity is about it’s
about creating your life so that when
the creative opportunity comes you’re
ready to meet it and contribute so
that’s the practice of creativity and
now when we dive deeper say okay July on
what’s what are the things that we can
control so this is a really easy example
so obviously like there’s a whole body
of knowledge that goes in with within
these but on a high level it’s pretty
but your grounding in reality
imagination muscles and energy
management so it’s how well you learn
the rules of the game how good you are
at manipulating that those rules and you
know imagining alternatives you’ve got
to be brave to imagine new possibilities
right and then the energy management
it’s the price you have to pay it’s the
fuel you have to bring towards executing
your vision and these are if you balance
that well it brings about you know you
to become at the best possible self when
the opportunity meets and if we look
here you know obviously we we can’t
control life opportunity or change but
these are the things that we can use in
order for us to have a good you know how
do you say it a narrative to what
happens right if you look at things with
perspective with gratitude and with play
then the life that happens to you it’s
not life that happens to you it becomes
a life that happens for you Tony Robbins
so there I love their saying so it’s
it’s those tools that you get to use so
when you balance the things that you can
and cannot control you get creativity
practice and so what does it have to do
with evolution well we’re living in a
time when technological disruption you
know new technologies the way we
communicate with each other the way we
learn of each other is changing so we
need people to be brave by creativity if
we’re talking about the interaction
between you and life so it’s like you in
flow having a relationship with life in
that you influence life as much as in
life influences you you listen to its
signals the things that are happening to
you that is unique to you you get you
know to learn something that only you
can learn because you can imagine those
things that only you can imagine and so
this is why the myth of the career in
the New Age I think is a little bit
outdated because back then when you told
your mom you wanted to be a painter
you’d be like no son that’s silly but
now there’s actually a whole industry on
that you can be a football player you
can be whatever you want to be actually
and I put up an example of these people
it’s because they weren’t special
because they had special trade or early
life event it’s because they chose to
color
the life events towards to suit their
purpose they adapted with change they
used opportunities and created
themselves it was a choice
it wasn’t an inherent thing or a gift so
what why should you care about
creativity right so he is like to two
little concepts that I used so you can
check whether your MOOC on the creative
or on the passive side so have a look at
these two so these are the three domains
that you want to keep to have a creative
life
yo it’s your relationship with yourself
it’s your relationship with others as
well as your relationship with the
environment and your surroundings how
does it make you feel what is the energy
does it take away from you or do you
sort of like influence it because at the
end of the day you know if you’re ruled
by hunger and I gotta go eat at 3 p.m.
and then you’ve got a important meeting
does that really serve your purpose it’s
like oh I have to go see this person but
that person is toxic from you then
obviously you’re living passive rather
than a creative life so back towards
that symbol of yin and yang it’s about
the balance it’s about you taking
influence from life as well as you
influencing life because you’re
expressing yourself so it’s a tool you
know it’s perceiving and creating
reality as you create as you go on so
this is a nice little example a question
that I posed to you guys a ship in a
harbor is safe that is not what a ship
is for so in essence what type of ship
do you have and what seas were you meant
to sail we’re all like we’ve got this
whole new world where there’s so many
seas to travel so what ship were you you
know meant for was it for the big ocean
sometimes we were meant for the rivers
but you give your own meaning so I have
a relationship with creativity and
perhaps you can you know adapt to change
better thank you so much for your time today
ladies and gentlemen thank you for
having me here such an honor today I
wanted to share with you some of the
learnings that I’ve made in my journey
and weed relationship that I’ve had with
creativity so this is the title of my
talk living a creative life and times of
change I want to share with you some of
the things that I’ve learned traveling
from someone who is the farthest away
from creativity you know called the
scientist type I could never identify
myself as someone who was creative
because my belief system didn’t have it
too
traveling to someone whose yeah I got a
good Priya tivity practice going on and
I’m pretty happy about it so I just
wanted to share with you some of the
tools that I use some of the ways that I
look at creativity because one of the
main things that I’ve learned about
creativity is that it’s a result of what
happens when you interact with life but
in what way specifically it’s when you
get to influence life as much as life
gets to influence you so it’s a
relationship and I want to talk about
that because there’s not a lot of focus
on creativity as a choice and if we look
at this diagram here those are some of
the words that we’ve come to associate
creativity with you know in essence
they’re concepts that we’ve come to
build to help us understand creativity
and there’s been a lot but if I have to
comment on the general approach that
we’ve been taking is that we’ve been
having a really intellectual and
cerebral approach towards creativity and
which is fine you know it’s good to see
if like the reason Mozart was a virtuoso
pianist was because when he was young he
was really smarter he could have a full
range of hearing and all things like
that
but that’s not the reason why he became
a virtuoso pianist the other side that
we never explore up not never explore we
rarely explore is the fact that the the
element of choice the element of
decision
it could creativity be a way of life
that’s something that you choose to
become and that’s what I really wanted
to you know highlight here and if we
think about it like in the iceberg so if
we’ve been intellectualizing
creativity and that’s what we’ve only
scratched the surface now the great
thing about icebergs is that only 10% is
on the surface the 90% is down here so
if we analogize that to your ability to
feel there’s so much more about
creativity that we don’t understand and
that we need new paradigms in order to
look at it differently you know and so
it leads us to the question what is
really creativity and what does it have
to do with change so one of the ways
that I like to use myself in order to
understand creativity is this way so
look at it through the lens of what you
can and cannot control right and that
sweet spot in the middle is there like a
little thing here the thing in the
middle there is when creativity happens
so let’s have a look at some of the
things that you can and cannot control
life change an opportunity notice how
change life and opportunity are the
things that we can’t control and the
common denominator in those examples is
you so in essence if you look at
creativity this way it takes it away
from something that you inherit to
something that you got to work on
so from lottery to something you’re
working on it’s not entirely out of your
control but it’s not entirely within
your control either so you have to build
a practice around it and that’s why I
symbolize the yin and yang it’s about
you meeting the opportunity when it
comes
that’s what creativity is about it’s
about creating your life so that when
the creative opportunity comes you’re
ready to meet it and contribute so
that’s the practice of creativity and
now when we dive deeper say okay July on
what’s what are the things that we can
control so this is a really easy example
so obviously like there’s a whole body
of knowledge that goes in with within
these but on a high level it’s pretty
but your grounding in reality
imagination muscles and energy
management so it’s how well you learn
the rules of the game how good you are
at manipulating that those rules and you
know imagining alternatives you’ve got
to be brave to imagine new possibilities
right and then the energy management
it’s the price you have to pay it’s the
fuel you have to bring towards executing
your vision and these are if you balance
that well it brings about you know you
to become at the best possible self when
the opportunity meets and if we look
here you know obviously we we can’t
control life opportunity or change but
these are the things that we can use in
order for us to have a good you know how
do you say it a narrative to what
happens right if you look at things with
perspective with gratitude and with play
then the life that happens to you it’s
not life that happens to you it becomes
a life that happens for you Tony Robbins
so there I love their saying so it’s
it’s those tools that you get to use so
when you balance the things that you can
and cannot control you get creativity
practice and so what does it have to do
with evolution well we’re living in a
time when technological disruption you
know new technologies the way we
communicate with each other the way we
learn of each other is changing so we
need people to be brave by creativity if
we’re talking about the interaction
between you and life so it’s like you in
flow having a relationship with life in
that you influence life as much as in
life influences you you listen to its
signals the things that are happening to
you that is unique to you you get you
know to learn something that only you
can learn because you can imagine those
things that only you can imagine and so
this is why the myth of the career in
the New Age I think is a little bit
outdated because back then when you told
your mom you wanted to be a painter
you’d be like no son that’s silly but
now there’s actually a whole industry on
that you can be a football player you
can be whatever you want to be actually
and I put up an example of these people
it’s because they weren’t special
because they had special trade or early
life event it’s because they chose to
color
the life events towards to suit their
purpose they adapted with change they
used opportunities and created
themselves it was a choice
it wasn’t an inherent thing or a gift so
what why should you care about
creativity right so he is like to two
little concepts that I used so you can
check whether your MOOC on the creative
or on the passive side so have a look at
these two so these are the three domains
that you want to keep to have a creative
life
yo it’s your relationship with yourself
it’s your relationship with others as
well as your relationship with the
environment and your surroundings how
does it make you feel what is the energy
does it take away from you or do you
sort of like influence it because at the
end of the day you know if you’re ruled
by hunger and I gotta go eat at 3 p.m.
and then you’ve got a important meeting
does that really serve your purpose it’s
like oh I have to go see this person but
that person is toxic from you then
obviously you’re living passive rather
than a creative life so back towards
that symbol of yin and yang it’s about
the balance it’s about you taking
influence from life as well as you
influencing life because you’re
expressing yourself so it’s a tool you
know it’s perceiving and creating
reality as you create as you go on so
this is a nice little example a question
that I posed to you guys a ship in a
harbor is safe that is not what a ship
is for so in essence what type of ship
do you have and what seas were you meant
to sail we’re all like we’ve got this
whole new world where there’s so many
seas to travel so what ship were you you
know meant for was it for the big ocean
sometimes we were meant for the rivers
but you give your own meaning so I have
a relationship with creativity and
perhaps you can you know adapt to change
better thank you so much for your time today
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