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Episode Title: Creativity, Cognitive Bias, and the Right Brain: Rethinking Bipolar Potential
Description:
In this reflective, personal episode, we take a deep dive into creativity, mania, cognitive bias, and the misunderstood power of the right brain. Through stories, research, and lived insight, we examine how bipolar traits often viewed as pathology may actually reflect enhanced right-brain perception, divergent thinking, and visionary creativity.
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In this episode, we explore:
- What it feels like to navigate energy shifts, anxiety, and mood from a bipolar lens
- Reflections on noise sensitivity, sensory overwhelm, and grounding practices
- Why the right brain might hold clues to bipolar creativity and meaning-making
- The possibility that cognitive biases in mania are actually right-brain strengths
- Revisiting past writing to build a current framework for understanding perception
- The difference between daily creativity and “eminent” creativity—and why both matter
- Insights from Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Dr. Terrence Ketter, and Dr. Tiffany Greenwood
- How mainstream research is beginning to validate bipolar traits as creative capacities
- The role of “positivity bias” and how it can influence the lived experience of bipolar
- Placebos, nocebos, and the emergence of a “yescebo”—a new way to describe empowered healing
- Why creating systems like Re-Uncovery can help track and evolve our inner innovations
- The danger of overlooking or dismissing creative expressions as “useless”
- Personal reflections on synchrony, signs, and how animals and art offer subtle support
- Thoughts on euthanasia and bipolar suffering: the importance of meaning, community, and context
