1KHO 23: You’re Not Stuck with the Brain You Were Born With: John Muir Laws Talks Nature Journaling, Dyslexia, Growth Mindset, Ukulele, and more! | John Muir Laws | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast - S2 E17

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Listen in as John Muir Laws (AKA Jack) highlights a litany of benefits simply from throwing a nature journal and some drawing materials into your adventure bag and using it a few times a week. Learning how paying sustained, compassion attention to nature and to the people in our lives can profoundly change the ways we relate to each other and interact in the world. Jack highlights growth mindest and reminds us that we're not stuck with the brains we were born with. He also talks in depth about being dyslexic and almost giving up on himself. You contain multitudes, he encourages and explains why dyslexia is a special gift. You are so much more than the way you spell. Books mentioned in this transcript. Click links to purchase. How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds Laws Field Guide To The Sierra Nevada (California Academy of Sciences) The Laws Sketchbook for Nature Journaling Get a 1000 Hours Outside Sketchbook! They are 100 pages, with durable double wire binding and are only $8! www.johnmuirlaws.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. Today we have special guest John Muil-Laws who goes by Jack, welcome Jack.
0:15.0	Jenny, I'm absolutely delighted to be here with you.
0:17.3	Thank you so much for having me on the show.
0:19.4	Yes, I'm really, I really, really excited about this episode because I am a newbie to Nature
0:26.5	Journaling and so I know that personally for our family we're just going to
0:29.9	learn so much I just want to read your your bio here. John Murr Laws, aka
0:33.8	Jack, is an artist naturalist and nature journaling mentor. He has been
0:37.9	journaling for decades, has written many books on nature journaling, and is
0:41.9	working tirelessly to bring nature into the minds and
0:44.4	hearts of people across the world. Jack talks about how paying sustained, compassionate
0:49.5	attention to nature into the people in our lives profoundly changes the way we relate to each other and interact
0:56.2	with the world.
0:57.2	What a bio!
0:58.2	You're impacting the world!
1:00.0	What a bio!
1:01.7	It's so strange.
1:03.0	Before COVID, I was doing lots of stuff focused in the San Francisco Bay Area.
1:11.0	And so every month I would go around on this circuit and teach these free nature
1:16.8	journaling workshops and lead these field experiences for people. And those were really popular with folks and families all over the Bay Area.
1:27.0	When COVID hit, I couldn't meet people face to face anymore and I went online and it's opened up this
1:37.3	It's opened up all these workshops to an audience across the globe and it's really fun now when I
1:45.4	teach these classes there are people tuning in from the other side of the
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