Pencil Kings | Inspiring Artist Interviews with Today's Best Artists cover image

PK 171: How to Unlock Your Creativity - Interview with Author and Psychiatrist, Dr Srini Pillay

Pencil Kings | Inspiring Artist Interviews with Today's Best Artists

00:00

The Effects of Focus on Time

The past, the present, and the future are in your brain right now. And so I think that that melding of past, present, and future is best facilitated by a kind of unfocused state. Now, unfocused does not imply distraction necessarily. It might imply a place that you enter into in consciousness that allows you to explore something much wider. So when you start focusing, let's just take an example like mindfulness meditation. When you start focusing on the breath, then the mind starts coming up with all these different ideas... But if you just observe it, it starts to settle down because you're not fighting it. In Tinker Try, I describe very specific exercises that can help you

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app