Today, Barnet Bain is here to help you unleash your own inner creativity in every aspect of your life. Barnet is the author of The Book of Doing And Being: Rediscovering Creativity in Life, Love, and Work, and an award-winning filmmaker who has directed Milton's Secret and worked as a producer of What Dreams May Come. You'll learn all about focusing on desire, expectation, imagination, and much more in an episode that's all about tapping into your creativity and achieving a flow state.

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In This Episode:

[01:29] - How can you spark creativity in your work and in your life? In his answer, Barnet points out that creativity isn't simply the domain of a privileged few who are born special.
[05:27] - When someone believes that they aren't creative, the amount of creative energy required to create that construct is enormous, Barnet explains.
[09:44] - Stephan brings up a specific example of a project that he's working on and wants to amp up desire for. Barnet then responds with a discussion of the tendency of creativity to build and expand upon itself.
[12:06] - We hear a clarification about why Stephan isn't as excited about the membership site and courses he's discussing as the coaching and consulting that he generally does.
[14:22] - Barnet and Stephan discuss the specifics of Stephan's audience, and how he would tailor his delivery to his audience.
[17:49] - If you're teaching to dead air, you're teaching to the past, Barnet points out. In other words, you're talking to a version of yourself that you're conjuring up from the past.
[20:45] - Stephan is reminded of a conversation with Dan Sullivan.
[21:57] - Barnet digs into what makes an entrepreneur creative, which involves having a certain level of accomplishment.
[26:40] - Barnet points out the different relationship with the past and the present between what he has just been describing and where we started talking.
[29:17] - Stephan takes a moment to recap what Barnet has been saying and making sure all the nuances are clear. Barnet then discusses how various parts of the brain work.
[35:40] - Allowing yourself to have compassion for yourself allows you to have it for others too, Barnet explains.
[36:37] - Barnet shares his thoughts on affirmations, and how to make them more than just placating words.
[40:52] - What Barnet has been saying reminds Stephan of his conversation with Kristen Ulmer and her book The Art of Fear.
[43:14] - Focusing on what we don't want is like ordering the worst thing on the menu, Barnet explains.
[48:42] - Stephan shares a powerful distinction that he learned recently about praying for your wishes and desires.
[53:18] - Which comes first: desire or fulfillment? Barnet and Stephan discuss the fact that you can't experience desire without having fulfillment first.
[55:50] - Stephan recommends that listeners go to Barnet Bain's website and take his Creativity Quotient quiz.

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