where does creativity come from?
When a NASA study, originally developed to assess the potential for creativity and innovation among rocket scientists and engineers, was used to test children, the results delineated a sharp decline in creativity starting at just 10 years old. While 98% of 5-year-olds scored at genius levels of creativity, only 30% of 10-year-olds, 12% of 15-year-olds, and 2% of adults hit that mark. Dr. George Land, who engineered the study, says that capability we had as 5-year-olds never goes away–it just gets buried under stress.
With a background working with some of the most iconic artists of our generation, Vedic Meditation teacher Blaise DeAngelo knows a thing or two about creativity and a thing or two about releasing the stress that begins to obscure it after adolescence. He’ll share a practical overview of the psychoneurobiology of stress accumulation and a foolproof strategy for reclaiming creative mental potential and strengthening our own connection to the infinite well of creativity accessible to each of us at any age.
Length: 90 minutes
Cost: Free with RSVP
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Blaise DeAngelo, former partner and consultant to iconic artists like Skrillex and Richie Hawtin, attained material success at a very young age, accumulating all of the things we’re told will create happiness—money, power, success, notoriety, and the proverbial rockstar lifestyle. Finding himself unfulfilled by these externalities, he set out to learn why. Through 3,000 hours of training with a neuroscientist and master meditation teacher Maharishi Vyasanand Sarasvati, he discovered another type of happiness, known as baseline happiness, which comes from within, isn’t dependent on external things, can’t be undermined by the ephemeral events unfolding around us, and is available to all.