Update from the future: I wrote this in 2014. I've kept the recordings here as a time capsule of what my thought process was back then. Watch my new videos to see if I've learned anything new. Enjoy. :) Listen to the entire book here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyBPfXKjIZlaJuid41e5-AlwdHJdLEpvW Intuitive Life Design: Watching Everything You Desire Unfold In Perfect Timing written and received by Jon Ray questions by Jon Ray and Natalie Jayne Stott The music bed track here is by: Artist: Jonathan Goldman Song: Cosmic Hum Please purchase his music as I have: http://www.healingsounds.com/healing-sounds-online-store/cosmic-hum-cd Agents, Publishers, and Media please contact: Jon Ray - whoisjonray@gmail.com http://facebook.com/jonray http://twitter.com/jonray http://plus.google.com/+JonRay Questions Answered: —What is creativity? —How can we become more creative? —What would you say to people that feel like they aren’t a creative person? They don’t even feel like they are creative at all. —Are you saying that by opening ourselves up to seemingly silly ideas that come to us, if we start participating in these silly events, or silly thoughts, our creativity will open up even more for us? —I recently understood the terms, “Make Believe” a lot better. It’s a word that we use to describe children at play in an imaginary situation, but if you take the two words separately, it’s Make. Believe. You’re making something in your imagination to believe it. —Are you encouraging us to be more childish? To bring play back into our lives even as adults? To bring playtime back? —When we were three or four or five, we would put scribble on a piece of paper and we would go, Ta-Da! as if it was the best piece of artwork that ever was created, and we’d be like, “Mommy look! I made a masterpiece!” And I get that that’s what you’re encouraging us to do, to put scribbles on a bit of paper and say, “Ta Da! I created a masterpiece!” —I feel like you’re encouraging us not just to start scribbling, but to sing loudly out of tune, and giving us permission, if we love song, to sing out of tune in our own bliss. Or to play the drums poorly, or to dance in a crazy fashion, to open this creativity, to allow ourselves, even in our own space, the stupidity of being. Will this create an energy of creativity within us? —Many people have had rejections because of their style, but they kept going and then found an audience. I think it’s an important thing to add in here that if you have people around you that allow that open creativity, it’s really good, and can amplify your creative drive. —What does creativity look and feel like? —Why is creativity so important? —That’s a beautiful image to even consider that you create something that goes on to create something and the expansion and the imagery of that expansion is profound. It’s really profound. —It only takes one other person to have been inspired by that. It only takes one other energy or being for your creation to move on and have a life of its own. —How can we discover the right medium to express our creativity? —What if we feel like we do not have any skills that would be conducive to expressing our creativity? —I often have people tell me that they can’t draw and I have to respond with, “You can put pen to paper, can’t you? You can draw a line, right?” It seems hilarious to me that someone would say they can’t draw, when everybody can draw a line or a stick figure or a squiggle. —What is the highest and best thing that we could create for ourselves and offer others? —Why does being creative sometimes feel like a struggle? —I play guitar and I create songs, but I feel like my guitar playing has held me back a little bit, and I feel like a lot of us get to a certain stage in our creativity and then feel blockage, like our skill isn’t moving on or our skill isn’t growing. Do you have any advice for that kind of blockage? —Could it also be that you are holding yourself back because you actually have a perceived notion of how you’re supposed to play this instrument and in actual fact, if you let yourself go with the instrument, the way you wish to play it, hammer on it, pick it in different ways, play different notes, play awful notes that you’ve never heard before, you could actually create a new innovation? —So just be more jazz-like in all of your creations? —What separates the greatest artists, musicians, and creatives in general from those who only become hobby creatives or part-time artists? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDnV5tseZHg

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