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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to the end of the week, Friday morning.

I'd like you to take a moment today just to think about the ways that you express creativity

in your life. Maybe it's in your work, maybe it's in your spare time, maybe it's in the

way that you present yourself to the world. There are so many different ways of expressing

creativity and it's interesting as we grow up over time, how those expressions change

and maybe the intention and purpose behind them change and how that even begins to influence

the expression itself. So how do we get back to that real innocence, expressing creativity

in a way that is without any purpose, without any reason, without any expectation?

And it's interesting, you think maybe sort of with children that they might do that,

but I notice even with my own children that although they're willing to experiment a lot

and they're maybe not making it necessarily with the intention to get approval at the

same time, there is definitely an idea having expressed that thing to then sort of seek

approval for it and to feel better as a consequence. As we get older, I think often commerce comes

into play and especially if it's for our work, we feel the need, there is a very real need

to actually make something that other people like. So all of a sudden, I think the expression

starts to be manipulated in some ways. Now of course when it comes to commerce and

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