36: Unlocking Potential: Why Slowing Down Sparks Creative Inspiration 06.07.24

This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we delve into the complexities of breaking free from familiar yet unproductive patterns and embracing a more playful mindset. By comparing the focus needed for meditation to maintaining a playful mindset, we emphasize the importance of catching oneself driving away from what really brings us joy and redirecting. In general, we go so fast in our lives, often forgetting to slow down and reexamine what it is in the world we really want. So, this week, we posit the idea that to actually get to where you want to get to (speed up), you actually have to slow down and reassess what you’re doing for joy and what is bogging you down.We also dive into a rousing discussion about eating bugs—both accidentally and on purpose.TIMESTAMPS0:00 Introduction0:37 On Eating Bugs6:46 Laryngeal Manipulation 11:27 The Peanuts Gallery Podcast announcement15:28 Carrie’s Likability19:56 Driving Ourselves Forward27:15 Creating Our Own Rubric30:00 Anxiety about Wasted Potential36:14 Heavy Adult Energy vs. Creative Kid EnergyReferences:On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - book by Stephen KingThe Peanuts Gallery - podcast with Patricia Patts and Carrie Schaeffer