The Secret Of Massively Creative People | Robin Sharma

Creativity. Oh, creativity is so important for every single one of us. When we were little kids, you know, we had such creativity in us. Creativity is not just for poets and dancers and writers and filmmakers. Creativity is the birthright and the hallmark of every human being with a beating heart today. And so if you're not feeling creative, if you're not downloading amazing ideas that are allowing you to disrupt your field and own your game and make the world a better place, it's not because you don't have genius in you. It's because you've masked or blocked your access to that genius. In the circle of legends. The model that I teach that has been revolutionary to my clients is the genius betrayal process. And it really speaks to a number of influences that act on us after the moment that we're born. It makes me think of what Picasso said. He said, it took me four years to paint like Monet and it took me a lifetime. How to remember it, to paint like a child. And so what happens is after we're born, we are influenced subconsciously by our parents who teach us as best as they know how the world works. We're influenced by our peers. We're influenced by our teachers. We're influenced as we get older by the media around us. We're influenced by the cultural beliefs that are entrenched in the nation that we lived in or that we live in, of course. And so what happens is subconsciously, incrementally, every single day, we receive this messaging and this languaging that takes us away from who we truly are, and we lose our native creativity and our curiosity. A little kid is always saying, why? Why, why? But sometimes that curiosity gets stuffed out of us by people saying, stop asking so many questions. And by the messaging of the media and the culture saying, stop asking so many questions. Don't dream that you can be an astronaut and an maker and a startup entrepreneur or a great teacher or a frontline worker. Play in a box, think small. And after a while, year after year, after a year, we start to think small and we start to betray our genius. We start to give up on who we are and we forget who we truly are. In many ways, the process of self mastery is not transformation. It's remembering. A human life is a short ride. Now, is that something that's depressing? No, it actually is something that can be inspiring and activating in the most positive ways. Once we know that our days are numbered, whether we live for 100 more years or one more year, it reminds us that we must not hold back on expressing our primal genius. We must not hold back on doing what feels most right to our hearts and characters and our souls for fear of rejection or being laughed at by the chattering crowd. You and I must realize the potential and the gifts and the talents we've been blessed with, not only to live these soaring lives that destiny wants for us, but for the benefit of a better world. There's a little bit of wind where I am, so forgive me. And I think we're going to be okay. Usefulness. I wrote a book 22 years ago called who will cry when you die? Which was all about legacy before legacy became a popular thing to contemplate. And I think ultimately, life is a short ride. And I think ultimately you do want to think about how you'll have impact on the world, because even a long life is a temporary ride. And I think when you look at people who are in their final stages of their life, they don't wish they had more money, and they don't wish they had more fame, and they. They don't wish they had bigger houses, and they don't wish they had bigger titles, and they don't wish they had.

Whatever. You want to fill into that blank that I, figuratively speaking, just put in there for you? No. At the end of our lives, we all have the same human longings at the end.

And these are things like greater connection with those we loved. We wish that we had walked the earth more lightly, we wish that we had been kinder, and we wish we had been more helpful to our neighbors.