Expanding Your Creativity with poet David Chislett

Dear Creativity...Let's Write

Nov 9 2021 • 34 mins

This episode will hopefully not only open you up to some new ways to think about creativity and your own creative gifts, but David also shares some practical, research-based ways to both access those aha moments that we love and to support your own efforts in bringing your creative ideas to life in whatever format that might be.

This episode will hopefully not only open you up to some new ways to think about creativity and your own creative gifts, but David also shares some practical, research-based ways to both access those aha moments that we love and to support your own efforts in bringing your creative ideas to life in whatever format that might be.

Two of my favorite quotes from this episode:

“Poetry is the art of saying very much with very few words," and when you're doubting your ideas, "The ability to be creative is not dependent on skills, but your execution of an art form is. So it's not so much that your ideas suck, it’s that your execution sucks.”

In this episode, we discussed:

  • The importance of opening up to the process over becoming attached to the pre-conceived end result
  • The concept that creativity is not a spiral but a quantum phenomena; it’s about potentiality
  • Allowing space for your unconscious mind to process and develop ideas because this is how we’re designed
  • The power of aha moments and how when we’re busy in our heads does not allow for aha moments
  • How structure and repetition can allow for creative moments and ideas to happen
  • A few ways to quiet the monkey mind so you can hear your creative ideas and aha’s

Meet David Chislett

Born in Britain, raised in South Africa, resident in The Netherlands. Nowhere and Everywhere are home. I am a published author, poet, musician and artist. I have also been an entrepreneur for over 25 years. The link that joins everything in my life together is creativity... I am interested in the human condition: what it means, what it looks like and how to get the most out of it.

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