Want to supercharge your creativity at work? This episode promises to take you on an enlightening journey packed with fresh insights. We delve into the world of emotions, exploring how they ignite and fuel creativity in our professional lives. Discover how emotions like curiosity, awe, wonder, and even confusion can be key drivers in the creative process. We believe each of us brings a unique flavor of creativity to our work, and being able to understand and express this is crucial for a vibrant, innovative work environment.
Have you ever thought of using awe and wonder to ignite innovative solutions? Well, we're here to guide you through this captivating concept. We discuss the importance of understanding and naming our emotions, and how these can inspire creativity and innovation. Plus, we also share a treasure trove of resources for those keen on further exploring the rich and complex relationship between creativity and emotions. Be sure to join the conversation and share what fuels your creativity. And remember, don’t miss out on our book references to gain even deeper insights!
Laughter, Love, and Blessings,
Heather
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
- Permission to Feel - Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
- Atlas of the Heart - Brene Brown Ph.D.
- Join the conversation on Substack: thepolkadotdesk.substack.com!
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Episode Transcript
Emotions are both the spark that fires the engine of
creativity and the fuel thatkeeps the fire burning when
other people try to douse it out.
Zorana Pringle.
Talking about emotions canbring up a lot of emotions, and
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broaching the subject in theworkplace can add another layer
of complexity to theconversation, but it doesn't
have to be that way.
This mini-series covers fivewords or word categories that we
can start to bring into theworkplace and help communicate
our emotions in more specificand helpful terms.
Hello and welcome.
To Connect the Dots, lead theWay.
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I'm your host, heatherBall-Saric.
I'm a white female with short,star-brown hair.
I have on tortoise-shelledglasses and a blue shirt that
says Be Kind.
I'm sitting in front of a tealwall with multiple pieces of art
displayed.
Welcome back.
It's day two of our five-daymini-series, and today's word
category is around creativity.
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The quote I opened the podcastwith came from Permission to
Feel by Mark Brekitt, and theparagraph continues on to say
emotions rule the whole creativeprocess, from motivating
creative work to ideagenerations, to persisting
towards the actualization of ourown ideas.
It's the challenge that keepsus striving.
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But what does our vocabularyaround creativity have to do
with the workplace?
Why do we need other words, totalk about that.
So creative work and thoughtare not just reserved for
artists or designers.
Each one of us brings our ownversion of creativity to our
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work.
And to just say, you know, well, I'm creative, I mean, that's
just to me, that's you're justphoning it in at that point,
that creative and let me say Iphoned that in that was the
first two of it.
So because when I was thinkingabout this, I kept going back to
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interviewing with differentcompanies and they want someone
to come in and create innovativesolutions for them.
But creating isn't the same foreveryone.
It's.
We need to be able to explainhow we work towards creating
these elusive innovations, orthe process by which we can take
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someone through, you know,through this creative process to
get this innovation.
So creativity starts withcuriosity, which can be fueled
by awe and wonder and even alittle confusion.
These are all emotions thatBrené Brown talks about in the
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section places we go when it'sbeyond us.
That's a section in Alice ofthe Heart.
I really love the way that shedescribes these emotions.
She wrote Researchers havefound that awe leads people to
cooperate, share resources andsacrifice for others, which
causes them to fully appreciatethe value of others and see
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themselves more accurately,evoking humility.
Now I'm going to pause rightthere, because when we think
about creativity in theworkplace and we just talked
about awe, right, all leadspeople to cooperate, share
resources and sacrifice forothers Leads people to cooperate
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.
Wow like yes, that needs tohappen in the workplace, right
Like.
So see, we're gonna pull allthis together here in just a few
minutes, so let's move on tonext one, cause I got some more.
So Brene shared how researchersWeigher and Wegman explain awe
and wonder.
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They write wonder inspires thewish to understand.
Awe inspires the wish to letshine, to acknowledge and to
unite.
When feeling awe, we tend tosimply stand back and observe,
to provide a stage for thephenomenon to shine.
Wonder fuels our passion forexploration and learning, for
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curiosity and adventure.
I mean just, there's afantastic illustration in the
book of somebody.
When you think about awe, right, looking at the stars, right,
being in awe, simply standingback to observe, but wonder, the
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illustration here is someonewho sees a butterfly and they
get curious and so they start tofollow the butterfly.
Right, it's curiosity, it'sadventure.
They wanna explore that andlearn more about them.
And I mentioned a littleconfusion, right, being in the
mix here as well, and Brenewrote.
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It turns out that confusion,like many uncomfortable things
in life, is vital for learning,and comfortable learning
environments rarely lead to deeplearning.
So not knowing all the answersor having to ask some questions,
right, that can help lead tomore creativity.
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When this is where curiositystarts to come into the picture,
and Brene's definition ofcuriosity is recognizing a gap
in our knowledge or somethingthat interests us, or becoming
emotionally and cognitivelyinvested in closing the gap
through exploration and learning.
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See, those words also appearedin wonder.
Are we starting to make someconnections here?
And because I know I just I did.
I just gave you a lot ofdefinitions, so I certainly
don't wanna just be like allright, have a great day.
Let's kinda go back to thatoriginal question why do we need
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other words to talk aboutcreativity, especially in the
workplace, when you're lookingto bring innovation into your
role?
Right, when we're trying to dothis?
It is not an on-demandstreaming service.
You don't just, you know, youdon't just go find the app and
click on it and go, oh yeah, Iwant, let me scroll, scroll,
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yeah, that innovation today,that's what I want.
It's not a on-demand thing.
But if you start with awe andwonder right the awe and wonder
of what could be right, whatcould be developed to solve this
problem, you can then use yourcreativity, or, sorry, you can
use your curiosity to help ironout any confusion that you're
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experiencing and this leads tolearning and creating those new
innovative solutions.
That was a reallyoversimplified version of how to
put these things together, butthe point is knowing the
emotions and naming them helpyou lead by example.
When you are called upon toquote unquote be creative.
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I'd love to know what fuelsyour creativity, what sparks
your sense of awe and wonder,what are some of the things that
you would use to kind ofdescribe your creative path to
innovative solutions?
I'd love to hear some of that.
Head over to my sub-stack.
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The link is down in thedescription.
I'd love for you to come intothe conversation over there.
Please make sure that you checkout the links in the
description to learn more aboutMark Brackett's book Permission
to Feel and Brené Brown's bookAtlas of the Heart.
I'll be back again tomorrowwith more words for the
workplace and until then,remember that you are loved, you
are worthy and there are greatthings ahead for you in this
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life if you trust and believe inthe Lord.
Bye.
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