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Hello, I'm RoxanneGay.
Welcome to Radio Headspace and MondayMorning.
I am your guest host for the week and I am thrilled to be spending this time with youall.
If you aren't familiar with mywork, I'm the author of several books including BadFeminist,Hunger, andOpinions.
I'm also an editor and a professor at RutgersUniversity.
Writing and being creative have brought me so muchjoy, so muchsatisfaction, a real sense of purpose throughout mylife.
And when we all tap into ourcreativity, I believe it can do the same for all ofus.
So this week is all about how to bring and foster creativity into yourlife.
I'll cover things like why creativity is so essential to the humanexperience, how to bring ideas tolife, and ofcourse, how to navigate creativeblocks.
Today we're going to start with unpacking why creativity matters and why this week applies to everyonelistening.
I started writing when I was four years old and at the time I would draw little villages on napkins and I couldn't tell you why it wasnapkins, but there weare.
And I would write stories about the people I imagined living in these littlevillages.
And I just loved it because I loved reading and I read from a very earlyage.
And being able to tell stories to make things up was just incredibly satisfying and it wasfun.
Reading and writing brought me great joy and they still do to thisday.
I am not an angstywriter.
I love doing it most of thetime.
And I love just being able to articulate my understanding of the world and to share that withreaders.
One of the greatest things my parents ever did forme, while two of thethings, when they noticed that I lovedreading, they took me to the library everySaturday.
And they also got me atypewriter, which of course datesme, but they gave me the tools that would help me do the thing that Iloved.
And I absolutely credit them with allowing me to believe that becoming a writer waspossible.
The most enjoyable part isideas.
When there are noboundaries, there are nolimits.
It's just me and thepage.
And I don't know what something is going to beyet.
I'm not working under any kind ofdeadline.
It's just forme. Writing allows me to have good mentalhealth.
Idefinitely, when I'm notwriting, when I have too much time away fromit, it comes completely affects mymood.
And so writing is the space where I get to do anything where there are nolimitations.
If there arelimitations, I get to use my imagination to figure out creative ways to overcome thoselimitations.
And I encounter them all thetime.
I deal with writer's block as much asanyone.
But there is something incredibly satisfying in finding a workaround.
And even doing thatwork, which can be thankless andfrustrating, is also gratifying at the end of the day because I'm doing the thing that I feel most called todo.
Creative outlets are incredibly important for all of us no matter what we do withourselves.
It allows our imaginations to remain nimble andelastic.
I find that when I spend time with creativity and it's notgoal-oriented, when I'm justexperimenting, when I'm just tryingsomething, it makes me moreinvigorated.
And it gives me the energy I need to get back towork.
But it's also something that helps me to think moreclearly, to act with more purpose because I know I have this outlet where I just get to try differentthings.
And it's incredibly gratifying and I want that foreveryone.
The sky's the limit when it comes to figuring out what your creative passionis.
If you don'tknow, just trythings.
Maybe take a class in flower decorating or cake decorating at the local communitycollege.
Look at creative arts likeknitting,crochet.
Those are basicthings, but they're alsonot.
The most important thing you can do early in yourcareer, or quite frankly at any stage of yourcareer, is to make sure that you have a project that's just foryou.
That's outside ofwork.
That's outside of your familyobligations.
Outside of your exerciseroutine, yourparenting,whatever.
My wife DebbieMilman, who's an artistherself, talks about this all thetime, self-generatedprojects.
What is the thing that you're going to do foryou, even if you don't know what it's going tobecome?
And that will sustain you in so many ways I can't recommend itenough.
That's it from metoday.
Tomorrow I'll be back to talk about finding your creativevoice.
I'll see you back here reallysoon.
