The link between stress and creativity | Radio Headspace

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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How can stress enhance creativity? Are there practical ways to use stress for innovation? Modupe guest hosts the podcast Radio Headspace all week. Every weekday morning, Radio Headspace aims to take a few moments to step out of the internal chatter and external noise. It's a podcast that makes space to pause, reflect, and consider how we can live a life that best reflects our limitless potential. Listen to Radio Headspace wherever you are listening to this.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's Medupa. I have something exciting to share with you.
0:04.8	Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a collaboration with the podcast Radio Headspace.
0:12.1	We made a whole week of episodes about the relationship between stress and our professional lives.
0:18.8	Because let's be honest, it's been a stressful few years and I wanted to talk about it.
0:25.3	You're about to listen to one of the episodes we did highlighting the link between stress and creativity.
0:32.3	If you want more insights and tips on how to manage, cope with, and even benefit from stress,
0:38.8	you can check out Radio Headspace on the Headspace app or wherever you're listening to this podcast.
0:55.3	Hi, everyone. This is Medupa Canola, your guest host for the week. Welcome to Radio Headspace,
1:06.1	and welcome to Wednesday. This week is all about rethinking the way we deal with stress,
1:13.2	and something that stress can help us with is creativity, which we need to solve problems,
1:18.2	take on tasks, and find ways to innovate overall. So today, I'm going to talk about
1:24.0	how stress can enhance creativity and some practical ways to use stress to our advantage instead of feeling
1:30.8	overwhelmed. So one of the ways stress positively affects creativity is that when you're in a stress
1:39.6	state where your body is flowing in a way that is kind of enhancing in a flow state is sometimes
1:46.4	what it's called, then you're able to make more remote connections between different things.
1:52.0	So what I mean by that flow state is you're kind of in an approach orientation, you want to go for
1:57.7	something, and then if you look at your physiology, your body is just responding. Your heart is
2:03.4	responding in a way that the walls of your blood vessels are dilating. The blood is being able to
2:09.4	circulate in the way that's kind of flowing and efficient and allowing you to think kind of big
2:14.7	picture, and that is what can be beneficial for certain types of creativity. And a piece of
2:20.5	creativity is being able to connect things that might have otherwise not been as connected.
2:28.5	Think about when you're planning to cook a meal and then you look in your cupboard and you don't
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