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Creativity. It's like another world.

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Music and links from this episode

1. Inner Mental Cage (Bitmap Remix) by Controlled Insanity
2. Freejazz by The Unknown Trio
3. Hola Hola Bossa Nova by Juanitos

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1. INTRO
2. When you’re making things
3. Designing things
4. Drawing things
5. Or just creating things
6. Is a really special thing
7. It’s not like anything else on this planet
8. When you get into the zone...
9. It’s like stepping into another world
10. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
11. PLAY MID SONG
12. Jazz music is the ultimate place of stepping into another world for me
13. Jazz musicians are some of the most creative people on the planet
14. And once they’ve found their flow
15. Their improvisations are otherworldly
16. When their improvising, they’re in a flow and in another world
17. The idea of flow is not an idea that’s unique to creativity
18. It’s talked about in sports and lots of other places
19. The idea is sometimes referred to as being in the zone
20. It’s a special place where nothing else matters around you
21. You’re completely and utterly immersed in your activity
22. I get like this when I’m designing things
23. And also when I’m coding
24. Once I’m 100% focused on the activity
25. Everything else around me fades away
26. Being in a creative flow is a lot like meditating
27. You’re completely and utterly focused on nothing else
28. In my day to day life
29. Of phone calls, emails and office conversation
30. I don’t get much of a chance to get into this zone
31. It’s hard in a busy lifestyle with lots to do
32. To get focused
33. And to find room inside your busy brain
34. But to produce our best work
35. And to be at our best creatively
36. We need to find ways to achieve it
37. Everybody’s different
38. And part of the challenge of harnessing your other world
39. Is to find when it’s easiest to access for you
40. For some people it’s a morning
41. And there’s been lots of studies to say that mornings are the most productive for a lot of people
42. For me, I love my sleep
43. So mornings aren’t good for me
44. But I really kick into overdrive on an evening
45. Unfortunately the later the better for me
46. I love the feeling of night time peace
47. And that really feels like another world to me
48. I record my podcasts pretty late at night
49. The night time has a different mood for me
50. Everything is at peace
51. And everything is quiet
52. There’s no fast moving people needing to...