LCN 001: 8 Reasons Why It’s Essential, NOT Self-Indulgent, to Do Your Creative Thing

Do you avoid creating because it feels self-indulgent, even selfish? Here are 8 reasons — including SCIENTIFIC ones — why it’s not self-indulgent, but absolutely essential for you to feed your creative hungers. 

Topics covered in this episode:

My 8 reasons it’s essential, NOT self-indulgent, to feed your creative hungers:

1. It gives you joy, and that ripples out
2. The Universe wants you to
3. “Unexpressed creativity is not benign.” -Brené Brown
4. Science proves it restores energy to your brain
5. You have no idea how your work might touch someone
6. The Talmudic argument: if you save a single human soul, it is as if you had saved the entire world
7. It may prevent brain decline in old age
8. It might just save your life (literally!)

Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Best-selling books by Brené Brown:

The Gifts of Imperfection

Daring Greatly

2011 Scientific study by Thoman, Smith & Silvia, demonstrating that activities which engage interest restore willpower best

They Played for Their Lives documentary film

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