11 | Annie Murphy Paul: Optimize Your Mind, Body, and Space for Peak Creativity

Create Out Loud With Jennifer Louden

Annie Murphy Paul is one of the most interesting and acclaimed scientist writers working today, and her most recent book, The Extended Mind, may just fundamentally shift your relationship with your creativity and your brain forever.

The Extended Mind is all about how our minds are not brain bound and by understanding all the ways we can - and must! - extend our minds, we can learn to work with the challenges of modern life that are so thinking heavy in entirely new ways. Hints: it's good to fidget! The spaces you work in affect how you think! Your brain needs nature. And so much more.

In this episode, we discuss:

- The myth of our "brain" being our "mind."

- How movement and space affect the way we think

- How to optimize our creativity with practical strategies

- Why grit and the growth mindset aren't enough

- Why our brain is NOT a computer

Get a copy of Annie's book here!: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FKB3V5S/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:

• help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
• falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
• and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.

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