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The Gathering Room Podcast

The Treasure in Every Problem

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5656 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We may conceptualize creativity as a free-flowing stream, but Martha points out that constraint is an excellent source of creative inspiration. When we have all the time and resources in the world, we feel aimless … but given an hour and a socket wrench, we can change the world! Martha shares examples from her own life, showing how every time she faced a situation full of constraints, it catalyzed a creative leap. Every problem contains the raw material for its own solution. (Originally aired: June 20, 2021)

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.

0:09.0

Good afternoon if you're in America or basically the Western Hemisphere. Good morning, good evening and good day and good night if you're any place around the globe.

0:22.3

I'm so happy you're here in the gathering room.

0:24.2

It's the best place.

0:25.2

And it's a little bittersweet for me this week because I have to take two weeks off.

0:31.2

So I won't get to talk to you again until three weeks from today because I am going in to do a little fancy. They're going to do some

0:39.5

fancy work on my feet. Fancy footwork, actually just one foot. So I've talked about this. I have alluded

0:46.0

to this before, that I have funky feet that need to be operated upon. And thank you all. You've sent

0:52.7

suggestions and I have heard them and I am deeply

0:55.7

grateful for them. But I'm pretty sure what I need to do now. So I'm going in and they're going to

1:00.9

do things to my feet. And for two weeks after the surgery, which is Wednesday, I have to keep my

1:07.3

foot above my heart. It's like hand over heart only with your foot, which is more complicated.

1:14.8

So I have been thinking about, okay, I'm teaching a course, I'm teaching coaches, I'm doing

1:22.7

training videos or training calls like this.

1:27.3

I'm going to be teaching practical wayfinding the creativity mindset.

1:31.3

Yay! If you've signed up, and even if you haven't, yay!

1:35.3

But I'm going to be doing it with my foot above my heart.

1:39.3

Like that.

1:41.3

See how well my shoes and socks match?

1:43.3

It's really, and there's paint on my pants. That's just

1:46.5

the whole look of me. It's the COVID style. So I've been thinking about, damn, how am I going to

1:56.0

teach class to these wonderful people when I have to keep my foot above my heart for like hours on end because

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