Jacob Nordby on Creativity as a Cure

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Nordby is an author whose many quests have led him to a deep fascination with life in all of its weird splendor. He’s the founder of Manifesto Publishing House and he penned the award-winning novel, The Divine Arsonist, and a non-fiction book, Blessed Are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives.

Today Jacob and Eric discuss his new book is, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life.

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In This Interview, Jacob Norby and I Discuss Creativity as a Cure and …

His book, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life
How he defines creativity
How creativity can bring you back to your truest self
Why he believes every human being is creative
The three enemies of creativity
The connection between spirituality and creativity
Feeling an inward longing to come home to yourself
Rebuilding his life after burning it to the ground
How imagination can work for us or against us
Allowing our thoughts and emotions yet not empower them
The three questions he answers every day
How to create more choice points in our daily lives

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0:00.0	Okay, as soon as I get done with this, then everything's going to be perfect.
0:03.0	And I'll never be anxious or feel out of sorts or feel like I'm off my balance again.
0:08.0	And I'm like, yeah, well, your true self is just laughing about that right now.
0:20.5	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:22.6	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:27.1	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:32.7	And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:36.9	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:41.6	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:44.5	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:48.0	But it's not just about thinking.
0:50.0	Our actions matter.
0:51.5	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:55.6	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
1:00.7	How they feed their good wolf.
1:17.5	Where were you in 92 bouncing your butt to Sir Mixlot?
1:20.4	Wondering if you, like Billy Ray Cyrus, could pull off a moment?
1:23.2	Now I heard as a podcast all about it.
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1:33.4	You know, the president came after me.
1:35.4	Everybody, time, water, with madness.
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