In this episode, Orna Ross dives more deeply into the mind state that induces creative flow—what she calls ‘the create-state’, a chosen way of understanding and processing life.
Drawing on sources from the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and psychologist Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, she explores the difference between being creative (a quality shared by all human beings) and going creative (a mind-state consciously chosen by some).
And the difference between the ‘create-state’ and the ‘con-state’ that induces conformity, confrontation, conservativism, conviction, and contrariness and conflict—which she insists is not as in control as it likes to think.
