Making Up Your Mission

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Has anxiety been keeping you from your life’s mission? In this episode of The Gathering Room, Martha shares that the best way out of anxiety is not simply to calm yourself, but to get creative! When you take the creativity route, Martha tells us, you get so deep in the process of creating solutions to the problems that matter to you that it becomes literally impossible for your brain to be anxious. So how do you start living from a creative place? Martha says the key is getting curious, and to access your curiosity, there are three things that the brain always asks, in this order: 1. Am I safe? 2. Am I loved? 3. What can I learn? Once the brain knows you are safe and loved, it can go into curiosity and start learning new things. And when you realize that you have the capacity to create around anything that makes you curious, you begin to drive your life towards your own unique mission. To learn how to feel safe and loved so you can access your zone of genius and create your life’s mission, tune in for the full episode! Martha also guides you through her Silence, Stillness, and Space meditation to calm anxiety and stimulate curiosity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:08.2	I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.3	Hello and welcome to the Gathering Room.
0:11.5	It is so good to see you, especially since I only posted the little tag like 10 minutes ago,
0:20.3	saying that today's topic is making up your mission.
0:25.8	So I've been writing, as you may know, this book called Beyond Anxiety that's about living
0:31.2	creatively because as it turns out if you've got anxiety, the way to live is not just to calm
0:37.1	yourself, but to create something,
0:39.0	and it will get you in a place where anxiety cannot reach you.
0:43.4	So as a part of that, I've really been fascinated by people who are so creative that they end up
0:50.4	creating whole lives for themselves.
0:52.8	And I recently went on the podcast of Tim Ferriss,
0:56.7	who's really well-known ages ago for his book,
1:02.0	The Four Hour Work Week.
1:03.3	I don't know if any of you read that.
1:05.1	I read it, and I remember thinking,
1:08.6	this man's mind works in such an interesting way. He is so not solving problems
1:16.6	in what we call the normal way. He's really, really, really creative. Well, when I got invited
1:23.6	to go on his podcast, I looked him up again and I saw all the things he's been doing
1:29.5	these many years. And he hasn't just been, I thought when I read his book, he had found a way
1:34.9	to make all this money without working much. And then he just, I don't know, I thought he'd
1:40.1	just eat bonbons by the pool for the rest of his life, but not at all.
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