How to Manage the ADHD Brain to Unleash Creativity with Andy J. Pizza
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Andy J. Pizza is a creative genius who learned to not only accept the challenges of living with ADHD but to embrace the many wonderful qualities that come with it. With compassion and curiosity, Andy discovered how to navigate a path for his neurodivergent thinking to uncover and share his wonderful gifts with the world. In this conversation, Andy and Eric discuss how he learned to manage the ADHD brain to unleash his creativity as well as...
- Ways to use explore art and its inherent ability for self-expression and self-approval
- How our upbringing and surrounding environments affect our personal development journey
- Understanding the impact of ADHD on creativity and how it can open new realms of personal growth
- Learning to appreciate the critical role authenticity and taste play in nurturing creativity
- Recognizing that failure is a vital element in fostering a personal growth mindset
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| 0:00.0 | Art really is self-expression, and you're never going to love your work. |
| 0:05.3 | You're never going to love that self-expression if you hate the thing that it's expressing, |
| 0:10.0 | which is yourself. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:21.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:25.6 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us |
| 0:32.6 | our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, |
| 0:39.0 | or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and |
| 0:44.9 | dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, |
| 0:51.0 | consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people |
| 0:56.8 | keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:15.1 | Hi, it's Elvis Jaran on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran. I'll be bringing you |
| 1:20.7 | candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life. We'll touch on |
| 1:25.5 | subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure, whatever |
| 1:30.2 | else comes to mind, but all jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have, |
| 1:35.0 | I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick. Now listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud |
| 1:40.4 | on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:45.4 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Andy J. Pita, an artist and designer creating |
| 1:52.3 | work that is always evolving, but forever rooted in whimsical narrative and modern graphics. |
| 1:57.6 | Andy is the creator of the Indy Rock coloring book and the daily NOD drawing project, as well as |
| 2:03.8 | a collaborator of Color Me Blank exhibition with Andrew Nyer. He's worked on projects for Sony, |
| 2:10.0 | Google, Smart Car, Urban Outfitters, Wired Magazine, Starburst Candy, and the list goes on and on. |
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