Welcome to episode 297 of Live Happy Now.

Today, we're going to talk about something that all of us have, but not all of us know how to use.

And no, I'm not talking about your television remote.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week we're looking at creativity.

We're being joined by Doug Patton,

a renowned industrial designer who is featured on ABC's American Inventor television series

and has created more than 300 products in 20 international market categories. His new book,

Conquering the Chaos of Creativity, is a map to help you find your own creative

process. He's here to talk about the connection between creativity and happiness and help each

of us learn to find our own creative superpowers. Doug, welcome to Live Happy Now. Well, thank you so much.

Yeah, you've covered creativity in a way. It's almost like a

textbook, except it's really interesting because you have really covered it in every aspect.

And I wondered, first of all, what made you realize the role that creativity plays,

not just in your life, but for everyone. It's always the same my destiny since a little kid that I would pursue new ideas.

And in that process, you must be strong because as you think of new ideas, society resists change.

And you have to be not only, I look at it kind of like

a yin and yang theory of creativity, that it's the internal and external. You have to have internal

processes psychologically and spiritually to enable your creativity and your happiness and your passion. But you also,

on the other side of Yinn and Yian, you have to have an external process, a capability to

implement them in the world. And that process, that lifelong process, I've had my company

for four decades, but as you have alluded to,

this started for me very, very young. So at what point did you realize you had a book in you?

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