OQ12: Making art, making meaning (EN)

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Episode descrip­tion:

In this episode Irina talks with Eric Maisel about the art of cre­at­ing mean­ing in our life. Eric Maisel, PhD., is the author of over thirty-five pub­lished books, both fic­tion and non­fic­tion. Some of the titles are: Coach­ing the Artist Within, Fear­less Cre­at­ing, The Van Gogh Blues, The Cre­ativ­ity Book, Per­for­mance Anx­i­ety, Ten Zen Sec­onds, A Writer’s San Fran­cisco, and A Writer’s Paris. His lat­est book is called Brain­storm: Har­ness­ing the power of pro­duc­tive obses­sions. His new book Rethink­ing Depres­sion is com­ing out in Feb­ru­ary 2012. Dr. Maisel gives work­shops for cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als both in the US and Europe and also works as a cre­ativ­ity coach and cre­ativ­ity coach trainer.

Dr. Maisel holds that the time has come for us to switch from see­ing mean­ing as some­thing we need to search after to see­ing it as only a psy­cho­log­i­cal expe­ri­ence, some­thing we can pro­voke our­selves by actively mak­ing mean­ing every day. Although we can make mean­ing in many ways, he believes that the mean­ing that makes us proud is value-based.

What makes you be in love with life? How do you trans­late your val­ues into the every­day choices? What makes this life mean­ing­ful to you?

Fea­tured music track:

We close the episode with Cepheus - the track by Upp­sala bound musi­cians Larry and Fredrik.

Episode Resources:

Visit Eric Maisel’s homepage

Eric Maisel’s classes for cre­atives, includ­ing Your Best Life in The Arts and Noimet­ics: Bring Mean­ing to Life

Eric Maisel’s Pod­cast Your Purpose-Centered Life

Eric Maisel’s Pod­cast The Joy Of Liv­ing Creatively

Your Cre­ative Brain: Seven Steps to Max­i­mize Imag­i­na­tion, Pro­duc­tiv­ity, and Inno­va­tion in Your Life by Shelly Car­son, PhD.

Inter­view with Shelly Car­son on Shrink Rap Radio Podcast