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Come to Center

When feeling scattered, collect and concentrate your thoughts and feelings. Return to the reliable rewards of feeling already full. Savor pleasure, move, lift your eyes to the horizon, enjoy art, feel the core of your body, and come into the present moment.

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Harnessing Your Generativity - Creativity, Flow, and Finding Agency

Dr. Rick joins Forrest on this episode of the Being Well Podcast for a deep dive into harnessing our natural generativity. How can we become more productive and creative, experience greater satisfaction, and lean into our biological drives to get more of what we want out of life?

They explore what a drive is, our natural drive states, and what we can learn from models of motivation like self-determination theory, before moving on to what we can do if generativity doesn’t come naturally to us. Rick and Forrest share how we can lean into enjoyable experiences, feel more competent and autonomous, and learn to brave experiences of failure. The second half of the episode focuses on psychological tools that help us activate, enjoy, and hang out in generative states more often.

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Key Topics:

0:00: Introduction

1:10: Rick’s ability to stay generative.

3:25: Motivation, aggression, and our interdependence with others

12:10: A theoretical framework for generative drive 

14:50: The process of making something as a form of healing

19:30: Confidence, autonomy, and relatedness

23:55: The way we think of ourselves

28:10: Agency, and what we can and cannot influence

34:30: Comfort with aggression 

40:55: Work ethic, the role of passion and enjoyment, and finding your why

47:45: Competency and flow

50:55: Having positive associations with effort

57:10: Enriching vs. absorbing our experience

1:01:30: The little things that make a big difference

1:04:30: Recap

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