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A Rock Star Take On INSPIRATION

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Rock Star Take On INSPIRATION was recorded on 17 February 2025

In this video;

1. welcome to another video 00:00
Of Rock Star Take On.
This episode is about inspiration and I have the tiniest bit of inspiration, but definitely not the whole thing outlined.
So let’s go!

2. How Inspiration starts 00:22
In a workshop I heard what it actually and specifically is, that CREATES inspiration!
And it is absolutely fascinating.

Our creativity, and therefor our inspiration, is sparked when you go through the register from the higher emotions, like love, and ecstasy, to the lower ones.
And vice versa.
And I indeed was able to find a scientific study to back it.
(as indicated in the video, I would go look for it)

Here is the scientific study on where creativity comes from:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1041608024000748
“Creativity and affect: A person-centered analysis”

3. The highs AND the lows! 01:30
Both are needed to create inspiration.
It is the movement between the two, that generates a creative spark.

4. Productivity as survival 03:15
Productivity is our number one survival skill.
Yet it is an ethos, that demands an ANTI-inspiration, lifestyle, because The Lows, are not allowed or they are dangerous.
Lower emotions = not being productive = a life threatening situation, like a limping deer.

Meanwhile the higher emotions are compartmentalized.
Like once a year, on the biggest feast of the region wherever you live, you can let go.

For the rest of the year, as we say in the Netherlands:
“Just act normal. That is already crazy enough.”
Except when it is Carnaval, which is one of our few outlets.

The specifics of how the repression or regulation of higher emotions takes place, depend on where you live.

5. Your recipe for Inspiration and Creativity 10:58
Look back at times in your life when you were very inspired;
What were the circumstances that created that?
Do you recognize moving between highs and lows?
And can you find ways to better accommodate current highs and lows?

Emotionally, creativity is gonna demand a pretty wild ride.

6. What shall we do next?! 14:47
Productivity would be a logical choice, but I feel I would be repeating myself, so let’s not pick that one.
But fortunately an inspired new idea also came up.

Next stop, Rock Star Take On?
LEGACY!

~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

Rock Star Take on INSPIRATION
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