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Tying up your rational self

Tying up your rational self

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Tying up your rational self

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- Over the last few episodes, I've talked at length about the role of impulses in the process of creativity, and in the last episode I introduced the idea that you are the biggest obstacle to your own hearing an exploitation of those impulses. To put it simply, there is a wacky part of your brain that generates all sorts of creative content, but then there's a rational, upstanding, responsible part of your brain that squashes all of those ideas. So I'm going to show you an exercise right now that will hopefully tie up that rationale, upstanding, responsible part of your brain, so that the wacky part can be heard. It's a writing exercise. You need either a pen and paper, I'm going to do it here into this computer just because I can type faster than I can write, and I want to get through this as quickly as possible. So the exercise if very simple. You sit down, you clear your mind, and you're going to write a story. The problem is you're going to write a story while you are counting out…

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