<ul><li>Divergent thinking: involves taking one stimulus to radiate out into different things. </li></ul> (This is what underlies idea generation).<ul><li>Convergent thinking: involves getting to a single answer from one stimulus. </li></ul>(It requires more focus).

What Is Needed For Creativity 

<ul><li>Something that feels novel.</li><li>Something that feels true. </li><li>Something you want more of. </li></ul>

What’s Creative? 

Focusing your attention on one stimulus.

Focused Attention Meditation

Because there is impossible to be creative without the information to generate it.

Why Limitless Movie Can’t Happen In Real Life 

<ul><li>If you feel in a good mood (High dopamine levels), avoid external stimuli and start with divergent thinking as soon as possible. </li><li>If you feel in a bad mood (low dopamine levels), seek external stimuli and don’t start divergent thinking just yet. </li></ul>

What You Should Do Depending On Your Mood

<ul><li>Executive network: to eliminate choices.</li><li>Default mode network: for spontaneous imagination that arise when you stop paying attention to the external world. </li><li>Salience network: to pay attention to what’s more interesting in the external world or in your mind. </li></ul>

Neural Circuits Involved In Creativity

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Open monitoring meditation (For divergent thinking).</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Focused attention meditation (For convergent thinking).</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Yoga nidra (For divergent thinking): it creates a 65% increase in the release of dopamine. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Explore patterns of movements (for divergent thinking)</li></ul>

Tools To Be More Creative 

<ul><li>Serotonin can increase both Convergent And Divergent Thinking</li><li>Cannabis can increase too much divergent thinking, but those ideas can be forgotten.</li><li>Being in a good mood facilitates creative thinking.</li></ul>

Additional Notes 

According to this theory, there are three elements to enhance creativity: <ul><li>World building: imagine new worlds are posible by creating new rules.</li><li>Perspective shifting: think about others underlying motivations.</li><li>Action generating techniques: force collaboration</li></ul>

Narrative Theory

<ul><li>Nigra-Striatal Pathway: involved in generating movements, eye movements, and when you think about movement.</li></ul>(It’s involved in divergent thinking). <ul><li>Mesocortical pathway: it’s involved in motivation and emotions. </li></ul>(It’s involved in convergent thinking). <ul><li>Mesolimbic pathway</li></ul>(Not involved in creativity)<ul><li>Tuberoinfundibular pathway</li></ul> (Not involved in creativity)

Circuits In The Brain That Utilize Dopamine 

Allow whatever thoughts, emotions or ideas arrive to occur.

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In this episode, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one’s ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in these creative thinking patterns in specific and powerful ways. I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. Excitingly, creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman ROKA: https://www.roka.com/huberman Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://www.insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Creativity (00:04:30) ROKA, Thesis, LMNT, Momentous (00:08:51) What is Creativity? (00:11:16) Creativity in Visual Arts, Escher & Banksy (00:23:37) Neural Circuits of Creativity (00:31:58) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:33:13) Creative Ideas & Divergent Thinking (00:42:09) Testing Creative Ideas & Convergent Thinking (00:46:41) Dopamine, Convergent & Divergent Thinking Pathways (00:57:02) InsideTracker (00:58:06) Tool: Open Monitoring Meditation & Divergent Thinking (01:07:38) Tool: Focused Attention Meditation & Convergent Thinking (01:11:06) Mood, Creativity & Dopamine (01:16:00) Tool: Mood Calibrating, Caffeine & Dopamine (01:23:41) Dopamine Supplementation; L-Tyrosine, Caffeine (01:30:15) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest, Mesocortical Dopamine & Divergent Thinking (01:43:130 Serotonin, Psylocibin & Creative Thinking (01:49:13) Alcohol & Autobiographical Scripting; Cannabis (01:52:04) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Creativity (01:54:45) Tool: Movement & Divergent Thinking (02:01:02) Tool: Narratives & Storytelling for Creativity (02:14:47) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media Disclaimer Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac

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In this episode, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one’s ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in these creative thinking patterns in specific and powerful ways. I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. Excitingly, creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://athleticgreens.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Huberman Lab Premium https://hubermanlab.com/premium Timestamps (00:00:00) Creativity (00:04:47) Sponsor: LMNT (00:08:51) What is Creativity? (00:11:16) Creativity in Visual Arts, Escher & Banksy (00:23:37) Neural Circuits of Creativity (00:27:54) Sponsor: AG1 (00:33:13) Creative Ideas & Divergent Thinking (00:42:09) Testing Creative Ideas & Convergent Thinking (00:46:41) Dopamine, Convergent & Divergent Thinking Pathways (00:58:06) Tool: Open Monitoring Meditation & Divergent Thinking (01:07:38) Tool: Focused Attention Meditation & Convergent Thinking (01:11:06) Mood, Creativity & Dopamine (01:16:00) Tool: Mood Calibrating, Caffeine & Dopamine (01:23:41) Dopamine Supplementation; L-Tyrosine, Caffeine (01:30:15) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest, Mesocortical Dopamine & Divergent Thinking (01:43:13) Serotonin, Psylocibin & Creative Thinking (01:49:13) Alcohol & Autobiographical Scripting; Cannabis (01:52:04) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Creativity (01:54:45) Tool: Movement & Divergent Thinking (02:01:02) Tool: Narratives & Storytelling for Creativity (02:14:47) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media Disclaimer Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac

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