EP24 Manifesting the Muse with Rick

it's hardcore history I have always loved the quote from Mozart and I think it's abbreviated I think it's a couple of different sentences cut out but the quote as put together is wonderful and it's symbolic of something we're going to talk about today and the quote is when I am completely myself entirely alone or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them end quote I think many of us can relate to that at least the latter part right nor can I force them but if you're in a field where creativity is required for you to prosper eventually you start wondering about this thing creativity there's other ways to put it you could say Insight or originality or novelty I mean there's there's multiple different ways to try to Define this thing that is so wrapped up in the condition of Being Human that one could easily make a case that all human civilization is the result of creativity over Millennia you know laid upon itself right Generation by Generation by generation depends on how you define creativity of course if you were going to write a book on the subject of creativity and I don't mean like a book about other people's creativity I mean the concept what would it sound like would it sound like a scientific book would it sound like an instruction manual would it sound like tips I mean I have one on the great uh creative people over history and their working habits or the habits that they had in order to get in the right frame of mind to do their creative work or would it sound kind of metaphysical you know something along the lines of the Greek idea of the muses you know the creators of inspiration the ones who sort of sprinkle your brain with the original thoughts I read some stuff from the Hindu religious text once that suggested it was sort of an opening up to the Divine to be inspired from somewhere else right the inspiration didn't come from your own brain it came from without and the people who could do this really well were people that could sort of open that door to the realm ...