Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media Without Losing All Your Clients ⏱️ Making Time: Creativity over Productivity — with Maria Bowler
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Feb 26, 2025 In this engaging conversation, Maria Bowler, a writer and coach with a Master's in Religion and the Arts from Yale, discusses the nuances between productivity and creativity. She challenges the obsession with efficiency, proposing that true presence and engagement in our work foster creativity. Maria shares insights on how to stretch time and lose track of it, encouraging listeners to embrace creative friction as a catalyst for growth. Their discussion also touches on the complicated relationship with social media, emphasizing a more meaningful connection to art and life.
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Productivity Mindset
- Productivity is a mindset that views humans as doers first and last, tying identity to tasks.
- This mindset, rooted in capitalism and other systems, leads to alienation and avoidance of important activities.
Identity and Doing
- When identity is solely tied to doing, everything feels at stake, fueling a cycle of burnout.
- Disconnecting identity from doing allows deeper engagement with the creative process.
Defining Creativity
- Creativity is engaging with life on purpose to draw out more life, going beyond artistic expression.
- It's about the relationship with the process, the deep satisfaction of engaging fully.