Peter Sorgenfrei describes burning out from left-brain work and discovering unexpected creativity: he wrote his first novel, got better at naming his emotions, and started talking about his feelings with people close to him. Now approaching 50, he's rethinking what comes next.
So a funny thing happens when, so you know that our left brain is kind of the logic and rational side. Yes. And so that's the part of my brain that burned down, right? Melted down. And when that happens, the right side of your brain kind of goes alive, the creative side of your brain. And so I ended up writing a novel while this was happening. I haven't written a word in my life. But another thing that happened was I got much more in tune with my emotions. Because of that side of my brain waking up. And I realized that in order for me to be successful in the second half of my life, I turn 50 in a few weeks, I needed to figure out how to talk about this stuff. But I was not very good at it to do it for myself. So I started doing it for myself. I just started talking about my feelings. And lo and behold, women like when you talk about your feelings. And I was like, this is working.
