Hello you Lanky Daniels. Welcome to the Blind By Podcast. I'm going to be keeping the introduction

short because I have a very special podcast for you this week. I had a conversation with Professor

Anna Abraham who was a psychologist and neuroscientist with a specific interest in researching creativity.

So we sat down and spoke all about creativity but this isn't just a conversation about creativity.

It's a conversation about creativity with an expert in creativity. And don't this podcast as part of

Creative Brain Week which kicks off in Ireland this Friday. Creative Brain Week lasts from March 12th to

the 16th which it was founded by Professor Ian Robertson who asked me to do this and who set me up

with the chat with Anna Abramson. So if you want to find out about Creative Brain Week go to

creativebrainweek.com but just to let you know what it is. It's a series of online and in-person

events which explored and set up how brain science and creativity collide. I believe this is the first

year doing it and it's a pioneering event that illustrates innovation at the intersection of

arts and brain science including creative approaches to health. So that sounds phenomenally

interesting and there's lots of events so check out creativebrainweek.com. If you're around Dublin

and you want to attend one of these events or if you want to attend them online I'm very happy to

be to be doing this podcast as part of Creative Brain Week because it's something I'd like to see.

I'm hugely interested in creativity and I'm an artist but I'm also massively interested in

psychology so here we have something that mixes the two. I had a fantastic conversation with Anna

Abrams. Just for you to know what to expect we spoke about what creativity is. Why everybody

all humans should explore our creativity to benefit our mental health. We spoke at length

about the Beatles documentary Get Back as a model for what the creative process is. We speak about

creativity and neurodiversity and we speak at length about research into what is creative flow

and how do we achieve creative flow. What is the science saying about how to achieve creative flow.

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