Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!
Season 3 - Episode 251 - Logic, creativity, and the fear of being wrong
(music) Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop Podcast with Kim Johnson. Your creative strategist and master mindset coach. Filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and possibilities, we help you to cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself you could ever imagine. Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places, her chicken coop, along with all her chickens. (music) Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop. So, we've been talking about creativity all week long, and one thing that I really want to address today is the fear of being wrong. So, I had somebody message me after listening to the first couple days and they said, "Hey, I'm concerned every time I go to do something creative that I'm going to do it wrong, and then I'm going to have to deal and feel in the failure." Deal and feel in the failure. I thought that was such an interesting way to say it. Meaning, not only did they have to think about it, they had to feel it all day, that they had made errors, and that those errors were going to stick with them. Well, the first thing I want to tell you is the biggest enemy of creativity is logic. Okay? So, you're using your logical mind when that shows up for you. Your logical mind is saying you've wasted time, you've done this, you've done that, and you have to remember that you've wasted money, all of these things. Well, that's all a crock of crap, and it's not true, because you have learned in the process whether you believe that you haven't learned or not, trust me, you've learned. You just maybe haven't sat out of the negative emotions to see what have I learned. You know, two years ago, I took a coaching course for myself personally, and it was a very expensive course, and it was supposed to be something very different. Six months long, it was going to help me get clear on some messaging that I wanted. It was a very small group of people I was going to be working with, and I had known the person who was teaching it, so I thought, okay, this is going to be good. And it turned out to be nothing of what I thought. It turned out to be the absolute opposite of it. Now, in the process of going through it, did I get aggravated? Yes, I got aggravated. I promise you, I got aggravated, because I'm human. And I also grew up in Massachusetts, so getting aggravated is a thing. And I say that to all my friendly Massachusetts people that listen, but you know what I mean. So I had to deal with that, and I kept bringing myself back, bringing myself back, bringing myself back, and saying, okay, what am I learning? What am I learning? And then I'd hear myself go. You're aggravated that they didn't deliver. Yes, and all of that was true. It was true. But I had to remember that I was there for a creative stint. I was there to go on a trip into a possibility that I didn't know yet. I was looking for something different. And I had to wrecking with the fact that I was dealing with the fact that I was kept thinking I was wrong for doing the class. And I kept thinking, oh my gosh, I shouldn't have done this. This was so much money. Why did I do this? That was going on in the back of my head. It wasn't the bus driver, but it was probably like four seats back, if that makes sense. And I kept hearing it, and I had to deal with it. So as the class comes to a conclusion, I'm more, as our friend, you know, has said many times to me that I get clearer when I have that deadline. And sometimes that's true. I do. I get clearer when I have the deadline because I know I just can't be on this walkabout forever. So as the class is coming to a conclusion, I recognize that what I can take away as a huge gift is that I know what I don't want. I didn't know what I wanted, but I knew what I didn't want anymore. And I sat, and I wrote down all the things that I did not want that I learned in the class. And lo and behold, by doing that, it gave me a very clear map to what I do want. Now I do this with clients all the time, but thinking of doing it for myself, that was out of the ordinary. I just didn't think that that's what was going to happen with this class, so I wasn't executing in that way. So I said to myself, I've been in my logical mind so much, I forgot that that logic mind can be the enemy of the creativity. And I was looking for the conclusion, and I had a fear of being wrong about it. So blending all of that knowledge in gave me permission to say, "Okay, you know what? Guess what? You know what you don't want now." And that's a good thing. When you know what you don't want, you can start the elimination process. You can start by gathering more pertinent information to move you forward in the growth process, and that's exactly what ended up happening. And then lo and behold, I was able to get the messaging clear, get the people in line, do everything that we needed to do, and it was done. So I want you all to remember, it's not just you that gets stuck in this process, it's all of us, it's me too. It happens every single time. I promise you. Every time I go into creative zone, I have to make sure I understand what logic is doing. Because if logic is present and too much of it is showing up, it will kill my creative zone. So keep that in mind. Do not allow yourself to have excuses. Lose your fear of being wrong, and just go with the flow. Alright, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day, and I will see you tomorrow. Bye. [BLANK_AUDIO]