Jessica Carson: ...that being a contradiction is a strength, not a weakness

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Do you see yourself as an entrepreneur? Are you passionate, ambitious and intuitive? Do you also struggle with mental, emotional, physical and spiritual distress? If so, you’ll want to hear what our guest, Jessica Carson, has to say.

Jessica is a thought-leader in the psychology of entrepreneurs and creators. She has a background in psychology, neuroscience, start-ups, venture capital and mindfulness. She’s the Director of Innovation at the American Psychological Association and author of the new book, Wired This Way: On Finding Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Well-Being as a Creator.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. Do you see yourself as an entrepreneur? Are you passionate, ambitious, and intuitive, but do you also
0:21.9	struggle with mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual distress? If so, you're going to
0:26.8	want to hear what our guest on this episode, Jessica Carson has to say. Jessica is a thought
0:31.3	leader in the psychology of entrepreneurs and creators. She has a background in psychology,
0:36.8	neuroscience, startups, venture capital, and mindfulness. She has a background in psychology, neuroscience, startups, venture capital,
0:40.0	and mindfulness. She's the director of innovation at the American Psychological Association,
0:45.4	and author of the new book, Wired This Way, on Finding Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual
0:52.3	Well-Being as a creator. Jessica, thank you so much for joining us.
0:57.1	Oh my gosh. Of course. I'm just exhausted listening to my own background.
1:02.4	Well, you've done a lot. And we're wondering, are entrepreneurs by nature always people who are
1:09.1	complex? Well, you just ask me the easy question right off the bat.
1:14.0	I would argue, yes. And the reason for this is that through my understanding of both the psychological
1:23.9	science realms, as well as the mindfulness world, that our energy, our potential
1:31.2	as creative beings is very much born, not from our simplicity, but from our complexity,
1:36.9	by the amount of dimensionality we have within our being, by our ability to hold and harness our contradictions, our nuance,
1:48.7	our messiness. And so in a sense, it's, it is that complexity that actually provides the
1:56.8	individual creator with the inspiration and the momentum and the productivity and the energy
2:04.9	to do their work without which tendencies they wouldn't have self-selected into the
2:11.6	entrepreneurial or creative space to begin with. So I would make the case that somebody who is
2:17.4	wired and a quite homogenous way, and that's not a
2:23.9	good thing or a bad thing. It's just a different thing. Someone who's quite well balanced and quite
2:29.0	organized in their personality may want a little bit more straightforward life, straightforward
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