Creativity is core to us humans, without it our fulfilment suffers. Or at least this would be my analysis of myself. Creativity is the tool to navigate to a new space within preset rules. To come up with a novel output with the same ingredients. This podcast is my attempt at creativity, and this blog post is really a bit of an attempt at sharing some vulnerabilities, and my situation or preset rules…
I’m fixed in place and environment, I’m a solo parent, not a single parent, a solo parent. My life is not my own and I spend the majority of my time as dad not Dave.
So I get a lot of time to think (after kids bedtime obvs) but what goes in needs to come out. I also lack a creative output, a space which is for me to get creative and fail, and form substance from all that thought. So this is that space DeltaPod a space of change, a space that allows me to structure thought.
I find myself fortunate in many ways, because I can control most aspects in my life, but the aspects I can’t control, being a solo dad, having 2 beautiful kids that require persistent guidance, input and care. These are the aspects that Fix me, and require a creative solution to enable my creativity. DeltaPod is my space to challenge my thought, creativity and by proxy improve my fulfilment and growth.
[Side note: At one point I was considering calling this podcast Lone not to be confused with Lonely, but more akin to Lone Wolf or Lone rider. To be separated from the tribe. I like that mindset because it fosters ownership, rather than a victim mindset.]
I also hope this pod can be a space to put down thought and insight from my past and my present, in the hope that in the process of trying to bottom out my thoughts I will grow but also this creates a resource for others growth for others to be the difference.
DeltaPod , playing on the mathematical term, to quantify the change between 2 spaces [my definition, come at me math people 🙂] I hope some of the content of these blogs can help create quantifiable change for you.
What am I talking / writing about in the DeltaPod… stuff from my life… my 12 years in the military, my 5 years running a wellbeing and performance business, insights from my 100s of hours of one on one coaching, a dad’s life and a number of adventures over the years.
The flow of these podcasts is going to be this;
Some hypothesis/thought that i’m wrangling or have wrangled.
The story and Why I think this of interest / importance…
Models and thought – a space for me to set out my stall and try and add value and ask for your input.
Summary and Key Questions – Life is about the questions we ask ourselves and not the answers others give but the answers we give ourselves.
Some of the most toxic questions in our life are actually assumptions we make unconsciously. We should assume everything is a question, but the world is good at making us accept default assumptions and it’s the questions we ask that I think will provide you the most value in life. So every podcast or blog will end with a set of questions for you…to challenge some assumptions hopefully.
Here are the first questions:
- How would spending 30 mins each day deliberately doing something creative affect our life?
- How do you define creativity? not how Huberman or the dictionary define creativity, your definition matters because this can show the default answers you may be accepting and the beliefs you have.
Thanks for reading this far… have a listen like, share and all that please.
Comment below what you think creativity is…
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