Hey Jordan Harbinger here from the Art of Charm welcome to mini-sode Monday happy to be here with you kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that you can implement right away that'll make you more magnetic and effective.

Today we're back with Scott Adams who's on the show recently discussing persuasion and master persuasion masterful persuasion and hit no says today we're going to talk about checking in with your body for creative ideas.

Thanks for coming back I wanted to ask about the the concept that you have on your blog that's about checking with your body for creative ideas and I thought that was interesting I never heard that before.

So I like to think of creativity not so much as a process of creating something like I don't know if you think of it that way it's just hard to do.

I think of it as more of a fast iteration process where I clear my mind.

And you can't really sit around with nothing in your head if you get rid of the thought that's in there if you flush it that's a hard part a new one just fills it in so I try to do that as quickly as possible you know.

Poo poo poo poo you know one idea and I just flush flush flush until one moves me physically so I'm using my body as a sensor you know so if I have an idea and I laugh well that's my comic for the day but if I cycle through ideas I go interesting interesting sounds like a joke sounds like a joke.

That's the one that's the one so you're always looking the only thing that matters the the the X factor of any kind of creative effort any kind of art any kind of product is that little thing that just makes you go you know like you feel it.

I was just opening up a new Apple device on a new Apple computer and just the process and the thought that they put into that of you know the tabs that just make a great sound and it's a.

It feels right it looks right satisfying it a visceral level isn't it yeah it is it's just almost essential experience and I I wanted somebody to be there because I kept looking around to go oh oh look at this oh oh it is better than the product itself that's the funny thing in many ways it depends on the product as it goes.

So the you don't have anything if you haven't moved somebody's body right and I also use that as a way to know if your product or your idea has any value.

So if you ask your friends hey what about my new idea my product or whatever and they say that that's really good that's great you should do something with that that's terrific you got nothing that is zero.

But if you say what do you think of my product and they say hand me that.

Play with the oh do you mind if I borrow is this the prototype can I take this I got to show this to a friend I got to show this to a friend that's a physical action.

Right that's almost a guarantee that you have the extractor going there so you look for the physical change ignore the words.

Are there anything that you any drills are exercise that you do to make yourself in a more receptive place especially when you're thinking what Dilbert comic am I going to draw today.

Sometimes you might just not be in the mood to laugh maybe your oatmeal is not sitting right how do you get yourself in a receptive mode.

Well there's a lot of checks but I'll give you the big one so the big one for a writer especially is the time of day.

There's a time of day when your body and people are a little bit different but most writers either work early in the morning or late at night which is really the same zone.

Creativity just works better than I don't know why just something about your body rhythms or something so the first thing is make sure you carve out that time.

That's the big thing.

Then other artists say the same things this probably a pretty good generic rule that you need to fill yourself up with unrelated thoughts maybe in the same field but not necessarily related to why you're going to write and then you have to get rid of it.

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