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Digital Diary with Hannah Elise

Does growing up kill creativity?

Digital Diary with Hannah Elise

Hannah Elise

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education, Self-improvement

5602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

14 | I've been thinking about this question a lot lately. It's one that was sparked by a recent conversation with a friend, where we talked about feeling like we were so much more creative as kids. This week, I'm diving deeper into this question -- what is actually going on, why this may be happening, and how we can counteract it.


Sources mentioned:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/opinion/sunday/what-happens-to-creativity-as-we-age.html
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1700811114
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolyncenteno/2018/04/18/fear-shrinks-your-brain-and-makes-you-less-creative/?sh=623281bd1c6d
- https://hbr.org/2021/10/4-ways-to-spark-creativity-when-youre-feeling-stressed

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friends. Welcome to another episode of Digital Diary. I'm your host, Hannah Elise. I'm coming at you right now from my

0:08.2

parents' house once again. I feel like this is maybe like the third episode that I've recorded in the

0:13.4

short time that I've been doing this, that I've been here at my parents' house in Pennsylvania and my

0:18.8

childhood bedroom. I just flew here yesterday

0:23.3

from San Francisco. So I'm recording this in real time. I'm going to be recording and

0:28.2

editing and uploading all of this in one day today, Tuesday. So it's going to be, I usually like

0:33.9

to upload my podcasts at midnight, like Eastern time on Tuesday more than like

0:39.7

first thing. But after I explain the past like few days, you'll hopefully see why this is.

0:47.3

I mean, it's still going up on Tuesday. So it's fine. But anywho, I'm setting the scene.

0:53.0

I flew back home here yesterday from San Francisco.

0:56.6

I was in San Francisco for a long weekend this past weekend visiting one of my best friends, Derby.

1:02.2

I've never been to San Francisco or the Bay Area or really Northern California at all.

1:07.6

I've only been to L.A. and San Diego.

1:10.5

And I've really been wanting to go to

1:12.7

San Francisco and the Bay Area forever. So I finally got to go last this past weekend. And it was so much

1:19.9

fun. I do, however, think that the three or so weeks of travel that I've done recently has finally caught up to me because I have come down

1:31.2

with a cold. It was time, I guess. I've been on plane after plane after plane after plane, like, go, go,

1:38.0

my body is just run down at this point, I guess. So I do have a bit of a cold. So if I sound

1:43.6

a little nasly congested any of that

1:46.6

that is why and that's also why I'm recording this the day that I'm posting it because I've been

1:51.3

trying to let myself like recoup a little bit so I don't sound extremely congested and nasally but yeah

1:59.9

so that is the situation setting the scene. My weekend was

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