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What's up, everybody? Welcome to wake up call with Paul. My name is Paul fournier. I am your host, thank you all so much for being here. This is our first episode. This is the first live inbound call episode of wake up call with Paul. And on these podcasts, I like to my mission for these podcasts is to empower ourselves, our community and the world around us by discussing a variety of topics that engage our mind, body, and spirit. So today's topic is called what is creativity, we're doing an entire series for about three or four weeks just on creativity and all the topics that can under underlined creativity. So today, we're just going to go over just some just some overall approaches to what people find creative, or what creativity really is, we're going to see some quotes. And we're going to go over actually some some topics from a humanist psychologist. So again, thank you so much for being here, ladies and gentlemen. It's a whole new thing, a whole new thing. So I'm really excited to have our first inbound live calls today. So later on, I'm going to pop a phone number on the screen, go ahead and give me a shout call in when you're ready. And we'll get started. So the first thing I'd like to do on every wake up call with Paul, is put down in the comments. If you're watching this live or later, go ahead and put this down in the comments. Something you're grateful for write down something you're grateful for studies show that when we're grateful for something, it opens up neural pathways in our brain, it makes us more resourceful. It gives us more value in our lives. And it makes us appreciate the world around us even more. And when we appreciate what's going on in our lives already. We can invite more good things into our lives. And plus, it destroys things like anger. It destroys things like anticipation and a nervousness when we can just relax and be so write down something you're grateful for in the comments right now and we'll get started. Okay, so the topic of today is what is creativity? What is creativity? I'm gonna go over to the message board and make sure that everybody can hear. Yep, yeah, then there was sound and we're back loud and clear. Perfect. Perfect. Awesome. Welcome to wake up call with Paul. I want to give a shout out to my producer and one of my best friends CJ boo Gotti thank you so much for everything brother. We've been working on this stuff for a while and just going back and forth on some some ideas that we can have of how to make this podcast better. And CJ really really believes in this group and really believes in everybody watching and believes in what I do as well and I can't appreciate you enough for everything man. So what with him on my team? I just feel like like we're gonna we're gonna move mountains. So I appreciate appreciate you so much, brother. Thank you, man. And we got Jennifer the forest. What's up? What's up? I'm grateful for you too. Girl. Grateful for you, too. Okay, let's keep on cruising. We got Justin, what's up, Justin, good to see you my man. Okay, so without further ado, let's go into what is creativity. Here's some quotes for you. Albert Einstein says that creativity is intelligence having fun. Okay, well, people like Rainn Wilson from the office. He says that creativity is absolutely for everyone. See, the the whole adage of people were born gifted are born creative. Yes, people were born with certain attributes that make them that make them a little bit more gifted and understanding about about certain areas of life. And that's totally true. But creativity is a muscle that can be built over time, there's strategies to become more creative. There's strategies to be able to think and broaden your perspectives. So we're going to go over a strategy every, let's say, one strategy every single week for the creative, creative series. So let's keep on going. Let's go into Scott Barry Kaufman, his idea of what creativity is he's a human psych now humanistic psychologist, he says, Many have heard of the left, right, left brain and right brain method about creativity, that left brain is not related to creativity much at all, because it's really boring, logical, super serious and analytical. And then the right brain is where all the artistic beauty comes out. And it's very poetic. The reality is that creativity involves an interaction of lots of different brain networks that rely on both left side and the right side of the brain. So it the whole adage of mine, I'm more of a writer, left brain, I'm not creative, I'm more of a left brained person, a right brained person, it look creativity, then you'll you'll you'll find this in some of the some of the stuff that that that Scott's talking about here is that creativity is more like a gel. It's more it's just kind of, in all different ports, ports and spaces and neurons and neurons in your body in your mind. So it's a kind of kind of waving and flowing between a lot of different parts of your, of your brain. So he goes on to say, when you have a lot of different parts of the brain that are communicating with each other to solve a certain task, and it's called brain network. So you have a brain network, when it's all connected together, that your creativity is the thing that kind of mixes all those things together and makes makes more options for yourself. So and then then he goes on to say, you find that creativity draws on multiple interacting brain networks in particular, it draws on three brain networks that seem to be absolutely essential to creating creativity across whatever field it is, whether it's science or art. So he goes on to say, one of those brain wet networks is called the executive attention network, which allows you to integrate lots of information in your head at one time, hold stuff in your working memory, maintain strategies that you're currently working on at one time, so you don't forget what your strategy is, or forget what you already did, and then redo it. The executive attention network is also helpful for inhibiting the obvious responses, or the first things that come to mind, the executive attention network is going to be helpful to inhibit the most immediate obvious things that come to mind. So basically, if you're, this network says, Okay, well, so and so you're thinking about these things that when it comes to this particular strategy, or thinking about these things, these are the obvious things, these are the obvious things that you're thinking about. And then in your brain, you can kind of say, Okay, well, those are the obvious things that, let's see what's behind that. Let's see what's behind that, and what's behind that. So it allows you to prioritize your thoughts, find the new thoughts, and be able to categorize those things, just like that on the spot. So the second brain network that's really important is called the default mode network, which is the imagination network. So this is the highly, it's highly active, every time we turn our focus of attention inward on our daydreams, we focus on our future goals, and whenever we're trying to take the perspective of someone else. So it's very important to have compassion for someone else, because it allows us to imagine what someone else is thinking or feeling. So this gives us the ability to be sympathetic, or empathetic to different situations in our life, that maybe are a part of the same strategy, the same focus that we've been focusing on for a while. So I see it as like, let's, let's ask more questions. That's really what it comes down to. So you're, you're you start in the executive attention network part of the brain. So that's the compartmentalize migration part. That's, that's where you ask the questions. That's where you have your options. And then it comes down to the default, imagine a nation network. And that's where you can kind of let your inhibitions kind of run wild, you can kind of you can, you can Daydream, you can have fun. And that's the point of creativity is having fun with the options that are there. Okay, that takes us to our third major brain network, which is important for creativity. And that's called the salience brain network that's associated with what is most interesting to us, okay. So before we think consciously about a creed, or a creative act, or about a creative activity, and even before we activate our imagination, there's a process before both of that, where we have a subconscious process where the salient brain network tags things as interesting or not interesting in our environment, and it either feeds it to our imagination network, or it or to our executive attention network to pay attention to creativity involves the interaction of all three, it's when we're captivated or captivated by the moment, we're mindful, but we're also imaginative. And we're also motivated and passionate to engage in the creative activity. So that is the beautiful part. And like, get back to what Albert Einstein said, creativity is intelligence, having fun. So where does the intelligence come from the executive attention part of the networks of your brain, the all the questions, the things that you already know, it's like, okay, here's the options here, right, and it goes down the second part, the default mode network. And that's where the daydreams come in. That's where you get to start to have fun and start to play with these options. And then it goes down the salience brain network, which is taking all of that fun taking all these options and saying, which one is the best for me, which one connects with me the most. So if you're an artist out there for all my artists, whenever I play in front of people, and I'm going to do a guitar solo, or I want to just add a little bit more emotion here, just do like a little bit of improv, I'll, I'll count that moment. Maybe I'm like eight bars away from from the chorus. And I'll say, Okay, I want this chorus to hit a little bit more, maybe I can hear my options, maybe I can turn on my guitar a little bit more here. Maybe I can signal the bass player to do a riff before we get into the chorus, maybe, maybe I can sing a high note, right before we get to that chorus. And then I go through that phase. And I let those thoughts kind of kind of rush through me in that eight bar period. And then I connect with, I connect with the crowd and I connect with with my people around me, I have fun, and I get to I then I feel connected to one specific ideal or at one specific outcome, and I go for it. And that's the salience metal part of the network that says, okay, Paul, this is this is what you're going to want to do. This is it, man, this is what you play. And when I do that, when I perform it, it connects with the crowd even more. So that's that this is actively what's going on in your brain when you're when you're deciding to be creative. Okay, so, as promised, we're going to go over a strategy to help you be more creative, to help these parts of your mind and to grow more. Let's go back to the comments real quick who we got who we got. Love the love in this community? Yes, man. Me too. Thank you, CJ. Beth. I'm grateful for my family and my friends. Thank you, Beth. Yes. Yes, ma'am. Intelligence having fun. Love it. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. And it's so important, it's so important to have fun while you're trying to be creative. And it's and what's interesting in learning in general. So I used to be, I used to be a music teacher and public schools and, and did some private lessons as well. But the most important thing about all of this stuff, is to have fun, okay? When you look at the options in your life, and you and you don't allow yourself to open it up and have fun and go through those networks in your brain, then you feel stuck. That's what makes you feel stuck a lot of times, because you're not accessing that creative part. So in times like these, we're not sure where the economy is gonna go or whatnot. By the way, Florida is still doing great, Florida, congratulations on that Super Bowl, win, baby. That's what's up. That's what's up, Florida's doing great. We're still working, but anywho. So we A lot of people don't know where their future is going to be held. So ask more questions, go through these neural networks, kind of read these entities, neural networks, go back in this video and check these out and look at some of the definitions before you give up before you go through the process and say, Well, you know, I've asked all the questions I'm done here. That's not that's not the point. Have fun. If you can get that feel if you can get the endorphins rushing, and and in a question like, how do I make more finances? Or how do I make more money and improve my finances over the next six months, be creative with that, that go inside yourself, think and have have fun, be imaginative. And the thing is about business. And what I've noticed is the more fun that you have in the mortuary or to yourself and whatever, the more people are attracted to what you're doing. Case in point here, I love talking about this stuff so much. And I am so blessed to be able to have people that will come in on a weekly basis to be able to start this community with me so and it's just amazing. So stick to what you love. And stick to the things that really get your endorphins rushing and ask those questions. So this is what's going to bring us to the questions part of the strategy. I'm going to restart my my camera real quick. Okay, so here we go. So here's a strategy to help you gain a little bit more creativity muscles. So creativity can be worked, creativity can be practiced creativity can be strengthened and your body and mind. Okay, so here we go. So strategy, sorry, strengthen your mind, not your body, strengthen your mind. So strategy. This strategy is called is something I like to call question stalking. This allows you to find numerous different perceptions to any given subject, okay? And it helps you just just basically by asking questions, basically by asking more questions, diving deeper, you can question stack and be able to come up with more creative, creative options for yourself. So I'm gonna use the example of selling a car. Okay, so I want to sell a car. First question, I asked myself. How fast do I want to sell this car? Do I have time? Or do I need to sell it right away? Okay, so I need to sell it as fast as possible, but I'm not losing my mind over it. But it'd be nice to sell as fast as possible. Okay, cool. Second question. Do you want the most bang for your buck for this car? Or do you want to get rid of it right away? Well, I would, I prefer to have the most bang for my buck for this car and be able to sell it right away. Okay, cool. Now, my next question would be, how do we? How do I market this car by myself? Or can I sell it to a third party that's going to pick it up in the next 24 hours and resell it. So if I do that, if I give it to a third party, I'm gonna make less money because they're going to give me maybe two or $3,000 less than what the car is actually can can be sold for. So they can make a profit, but the car is going to be gone. And then I don't have to worry about it. They'll give me cash in hand, and I'm done. Well, okay, well, I know now that I actually want the money more. Okay, so I want the money more. Now. How's the best way? What's the best way I can market this? without spending money? I could make a Facebook ad and of course, like, put money into it and drive more traffic. But do I actually need to do that? My next question is, what are some of my cheaper options to selling this car? So as you see, like, we're going through these processes, and we're asking and dialing in question after question after question, to be able to file these, these this focus down into a very creative way. So it's like, okay, so well, I need to go maybe I should go drop the car off somewhere. What if I put this car and I'm busy in a busy intersection? Okay. Can it stay in that busy intersection? Yeah, the county says it's fine. Okay. Let me keep it there for a weekend and see what happens. And I was more cost effective to get to get white chalk or is a more cost effective to get this. Okay, well, let's get white chalk. Let's put all over there that people can see it. Now. I'm getting five to 10 calls a day. Cool. Okay, great. Now, I'm just Adding a little bit more time, but I'm making up for it because I'm actually going to gain two to $3,000 or more, just because I'm doing this myself. So to me, it's worth it. So that brings you down. So through asking all those questions actually dials you in to the best possible outcome, and you get to be more creative. And then you get to say, Okay, well, how can I, let's make this fun? Like, how can I have the most fun with this? How can I have the most fun with this? Okay? Like, maybe, maybe it doesn't, you don't need to have fun. Maybe it's just that quick, and you just go put it on the side of the road. And now you know that you didn't have to choose this person or that person and give them two to $3,000 to sell your car in three days, because you just sold it in three days. Can you how you answered the 10 or 15 calls? So question stacking. It's a great way to give yourself more resources to be able to see a lot of different stuff, and to be able to heighten your creativity. What's that? Charlie? Charlie Bronson in the house. What up girl? And then 96 convertible Mazda Miata for sale. Oh, yeah. A Jen's got a car for sale. There you go. That's see and that's a creative way to market your car. I'm I'm gonna Yeah, I'm not even gonna I'm not even gonna dock that. That's awesome. That's awesome. Okay, so we're gonna ask, we're about to take our first inbound call. You're y'all ready for this? Everybody ready? I know I am. Well, what? So rate for this? So ready? So my questions are before I pop my number on the screen. Before we take our first inbound call. I am going to ask these two questions. What does creativity mean to you? First off and foremost, and or what is one of the most creative moments in your life? Okay. We're going to answer those questions. I'm going to ask Actually, I'm gonna get I'm gonna ask you those questions. We're gonna get the answers. As soon as I put this, this number on the screen, we're going to start taking calls. So Whoo, I'm excited about this. I'm excited. Okay, so what does creativity mean to you? And, or, you can answer this question, what is one of your most creative moments? Again, I'm going to ask you this calling when you're ready. What does creativity mean to you? And or what is one of the most creative moments Okay, so we're gonna pop this script this this number on the screen now. And we are ready to take calls baby. So first one in, gets it. And again, thank you all so much, just for being a part of this whole thing. I really appreciate everybody for Yeah, just just being here. This is a beautiful experience for me. I love it. Man. We have our first inbound caller. Here we go. Here we go. Oh, from Justin Riverwalk. Okay. Yo, Justin, are you on line with us, my friend? Oh, sweet. I'm the first caller on a wake up call with Paul. I'm excited. Yeah, baby. Hey, can everybody in the chat. Let me know if you can hear him. Okay. Can you guys hear? Can you guys hear Justin? Okay. Give me just like, give me hear me. Can you? I know I can man. I know I can. So yeah, it looks like it looks like you're coming through just fine. Okay, Justin. So the questions are? What? Actually, which one? Do you want to answer? Do you want to answer? What does creativity mean to you? Or do you want to take a stab at what is one of the most creative moments of my life? I have? I have? It's kind of an answer that Oh, that'll answer both questions. Oh, dude, I'm excited. got me excited now. But yeah, it kind of answers both. But I think one, you know, the creativity part to me, a lot of it has to do with following through with those ideas. And my example I gave is I used to be an alcoholic. I've been five years sober now. And before I quit drinking, I would always get ideas about how to make this better how to get that better, you know, kind of like an inventor type ideas. And, you know, always in my brain, I thought to myself, well, you know, somebody probably already did that. It's too simple. There's no way it's gonna work for me. And I never did anything with it. So I never got to those second and third steps of that brain chemistry you're talking about, then I quit drinking and the ideas kept flowing. And when they would flow, I would actually do something about it. You know what, let me just do a patent search to see if there's anything out there like this to see if it's something I could follow through. Cool. And once I had my first idea, and I paid for the patent search, and they came back No, nothing like this exists. I mean, it really put my creativity through a through a whole other level. And that's when I was creative the most No, no, I had something that I could bring to the market. And once I was working on that, another idea would flow right to me, which is actually a second idea became my first patent. Yeah. And then after that, then number three, number four, number five, and they're all in line to keep going down so good, you know, but a lot of it is is taking that that follow through that. I was always Scared to take your talk myself out of bringing it to another level? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so so it's almost. So in those regards, like you said, you're kind of following that brain network. And like you said, you had a hard time getting to network two and three, and kind of having that imagination happen. But you said that, it was almost like, like you said, it's like asking the question, like, is this patented already, then you looked it up. And then you notice, like, wow, this isn't patented. And then you said you had like an influx or kind of like a surge of more resource and your mind to be able to work from from that point. Right. Absolutely. Okay. Now and then. So would you say that the you got more creative when you when you started to kind of fall in love with your ideas a little bit more, and you start getting those endorphins? rushing? Yeah, I when I started working on is when more ideas would flow, you know, even though I was consumed in that one idea that one invention, you know, in the back of my brain, there was always, you know, more popping in and popping in and I'm like, Well, I can't deal with you right now. Yeah, I went back and dealt with it because it wouldn't stop popping in. Yeah. And like I said, the second ideas what turned into my first time, and just so I can throw a plug. It's a barbecue invention, smoker attachment for a gas grill. Do it up, man do it up. This is this is wake up, Paul, or call with Paul Shark Tank condition right now. This is the shark john right. So yeah, this is great. I need you to go viral. Yeah, well, we're trying to man we're trying to. And so and, Justin, you've been you've been supporting the podcast for a long time, man, I really, I really appreciate the hell out of you, man, thank you so much for just being around. And you just got a good heart. And you're always you're always putting stuff in the comments and just being part of the community, man. So I really appreciate that. Do you have? Do you have any questions for me anything before before we get going? Now no questions. You know, I just liked everything you got to say makes me look at things from a different perspective. Because, you know, I always follow abraham hicks and to see it on your side of it. And the way you're putting it out there really makes me think twice about everything. And I like it. I like it a lot. Amen. That's that's that's what we're here for. Man. That's what we're here for. Thank you so much for calling in. Justin. I appreciate you, man. And again, thank you, Ron Paul. Yeah. Thanks, brother. We'll talk to you soon, man. All right, please. Nice. So we got our first caller, Justin, thank you for doing that. Man. That was that was thanks for calling in. We're gonna I'm gonna take, we might take one more call. We'll see. So if anybody wants to call in feel free, you're more than you're more than welcome. Again, the two questions that we're looking at is what does creativity mean to you? Or what is one of the most creative moments in your life? What is one of those that that time that you had a really creative moment? And if you can't think of something right now, if we if you don't, if you if you don't call in? That's totally fine. That's totally fine. If you want to go ahead and write something down in the comments, or DM me later on and have a little bit more in depth discussion about this. I'm more than happy to go over some stuff with y'all. So, man, this is awesome. This is awesome. Justin, I'm really appreciate you man. Any any callers if you just want to if you just want to call in and maybe even talk about something else? Or have another question that you would like to present maybe on a different topic that we talked about in a later in a later podcast, then you're more than welcome. So let me see here. Let me see here. I'm going to go over these these executive attention networks just one more time. And let's see, we might be out of time for today. But so again, when are all of our brain networks are working together. And that's when that's when creativity really starts to get sparked. Ladies and gentlemen, that's called a brain network. There's three there's three parts of a brain network that that inspire creativity. The first one is the executive attention network. And that regulates all the information in your head, okay, it compartmentalizes it times it out and gives you a list of priorities, what's, what's the most important to the least important? Okay, the default mode network is the imagination network. Okay, that's, that's where we turn our focus and attention on our daydreams and get to have fun with all these options that we have. The third one is the silence brain brain network, which basically takes all of those options mixed with all of the daydreaming, all the fun, different angles, we can look at stuff. And then it brings it down to out of all of that imagination, what is most fitting for the moment now and who we are. And I just want to say this again, this is this is from this is from Scott Barry Kaufman, humanist psychologist. He says this, and I'll leave us on this. Creativity involves the interaction of all three networks. It's when we're captivated by the moment we're mindful, but we're also managed mm imaginative and we're also motivated and passionate to engage in the creative activity. Okay, that's the beautiful part about it. When you're living in the moment, ladies and gentlemen, that's how you do it. You have all of your options in front of you live in the moment and Daydream and have fun with those options. And when you can have fun, that's when your that's when your other part, your last brain network is to come in and say, out of all these things, what's the best option for me? Okay, a lot of people have decisions that they have to make in their life right now. A lot of people have family members that are struggling. A lot of people have a lot of different focuses. They're all over the place. Ask yourself those questions. Ask yourself every day, what's my true value? What's, what's the thing that I hold closest to me? That's going to help you be more creative. That's going to help you find more things in your life. ask those questions, question stack. Have fun, y'all. So this is one of my favorite episodes that I've ever done. And I'm so so grateful that you got to be here today. I'm so glad that Justin's popped on and had our first inbound call. And if you guys have anything, any questions at all, feel free to DM me write something down in the comments if you're watching this later. These podcasts are meant for you to hold as a as a journey, buddy. So throughout the week, you can come back if you want to look at some of this stuff if you want to. If you want to digest a little bit more material. Please go back, watch it, ask questions. I'm here for you. And as always, much love everybody. I hope you have a great week. My name is Paul. Welcome to wake up call with Paul. Peace.