Connecting to Creative Self by Dr. Sanjyot Pethe

1. The Creative Self
By Dr. Sanjyot Pethe
HELP Talks

2. Intent of the talk
• Creativity as an everyday thing
• What creativity can do for you
• How to recognize and encourage creativity
within
When people do not create they become Sick – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

3. What is creativity
• Doing something different
• New ways of doing things
• New ways of thinking
• The being that creates
• The creator in us
• Reason vs emotion

4. Why creative
• One laptop per child – Rural Ethiopia – Packaged
tablets were given
• 4 mins one child started the tablet
• 5 days all children were comfortable
• 2 weeks abc song
• 5 months android operating system
• Trusting ourselves to resolve our problems,
powerful resourceful brain

5. Why creativity
• The danger of a single story
• Black and white perspective
• Too much focus
• Health and body rhythm
• The unconscious and our heath
• Feminine and masculine

6. Creativity – In Hindu Philosophy

7. What comes in the way
• Allergy to ambiguity
• Conformity
• Fear of failure
• Touchiness
• Resource myopia
• Rigidity
• Starved sensibility
• Dealing with Unknown
• Dealing with
uncertainty
• Task Difficulty
• Task magnitude

8. The five steps and question
• Fight the feedback
– What dramatic feedback am I considering relevant
• Remove resistance
– What is stopping me? Thing, people, place
• Use your predicting power
– What can I infer from the information I have so far
• Balance brain equation
– If I keep doing what I am doing, is the effort worthwhile
• Learn by feeling and dealing
– What are the actions that can jumpstart my brain

9. How we create
• Switch costs – cognitive dissonance – convince
your brain that the current structure is not
working
• Focus addiction
• Projection and introjection
• Recheck the rhythm
• Mind Wandering
• Day dreaming
• Self talk – speaking as a second person

10. How we create
• Focus vs unfocus
• Unfocus by tinkering
• Unfocus by Doodling
• Unfocus by Tampering
• Do multiple things
• Look are thing around
• Keeping doing
• Morning pages

11. Keeping the creative self alive
• The body connection
• Dancing
• Drawing/doodling
• Walking
• Nature connection

12. Thank You
Shrini Pillay – Tinker, dabble, doodle,
try
Pradip Khandwala – The fourth Eye
Julie Cameron – The Artists way