Are you truly honoring your creativity? Everyone has creativity in their own unique form but many people overlook it because they’re subordinating to a fantasy of how they think it should be showing up in their lives. Join Dr John Demartini and discover just how significant your values really are in the expression of your creativity, and how the challenges that inspire you, help you to maximize your creativity, genius, problem solving and innovation.

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If you look honestly at your life,

you will see that the most fulfilling moments of your life are when you've just

solved the problem for some other human being.

I think we're designed to do that.

You measure an individual by their most distant ends.

Every human being, regardless of culture, age,

gender, or sexuality,

lives by a set of priorities, a set of values,

things that are most to least important to them, individually, that are unique,

which do evolve over time but at any one moment,

there's a set that they live by,

whenever they are pursuing

what is most deeply meaningful, most important, what's highest on the value,

what's highest in priority to them, they

maximize their genius, creativity, innovation,

and capacity for problem solving.

So the first thing you want to write down is,

that if you don't feel your day with the very highest priority

action that you can do,

you're going to decrease the probability of waking up the most innovative state

of being.

It is only in our highest value,

the thing that is most important when we're in pursuit of it,

that we are spontaneously inspired to act.

Spontaneously inspired to solve the problems that we face.

It is in that particular value system and that one alone

that awakens the greatest potential in a human being.

I've said many times that if you don't fill your day with the highest priority

action that inspires you, your day fills up with lower,

progressively lower priority distractions that don't.

And when you're distracted by lower priority actions,

your brain is somewhat multitaskingly scattered,

and not able to be focused and disciplined and reliable to solve

problems.

When we're living according to highest priority, our blood,

our glucose and our oxygen migrates into the forebrain

where we have the greatest executive function for solving problems.

The greatest ability to visualize options,

mitigate risks, come up with solutions,

navigate through the obstacles,

and spontaneously take actions,

executive actions without distractions.

There's nerve fibers from the medial prefrontal cortex, the forebrain,

that actually calm down distractive,

cloudiness of the mind and calm down

the amygdala and the lower subcortical areas,

so you can be sharp and clear and focused and

present with the challenges you face.

And just like filling your day with high priority actions that inspire you,

your day doesn't fill up with low priority distractions that don't.

If you don't fill your day with challenges that inspire you,

your day fills up with challenges that don't. And please write that,

make sure you get that.

If you don't fill your day with challenges that inspire you,

you are designed to attract challenge that don't.

When you're pursuing challenges that inspire you

and you're in the forebrain,

you create resilience, adaptability, and eustress,

and you tend to see things as on the way, not in the way.

You tend to see things as a way to an objective. Your

highest value is your chief aim. It is your primary objective,

it is your real mission in life and purpose in life.

Your purpose in life revolves around your highest values, your identity,

your authentic ontological identity revolves around your highest values.

So by filling your day with the highest priority actions and pursuing

challenges that you want to solve,

particularly problems that make a difference in other

be remunerated and rewarded economically for doing that.

Imagine waking up your genius and getting paid to do that,

and innovating something original.

As long as we're in lower values and not our highest

values,

that is primarily a result of subordinating to outer authorities.

The moment we meet somebody that we think is smarter than us,

more successful than us, more financially viable than us,

more stable in relationship than us,

more socially savvy or connected or networked than us,

more physically fit than us, more spiritually aware than us,

the moment we perceive ourselves the underdog and are too humble to admit what

we see in these people inside us,

we will automatically diminish ourselves relative to them

and values in life go from those who have most power to least power,

so we'll tend to inject those values into our life that they hold,

try to be somebody we're not, be inauthentic.

Scatter ourselves with diffraction distraction,

trying to be second at being them instead of being first at being us.

And we become borrowed visionaries instead of an unborrowed visionary,

and it's the unborrowed visionary that actually creates an original

pathway, original thinking.

Original thinking is a by-product of authenticity and

pure reflective awareness. See,

as long as we put people on pedestals and inject their values,

we're going to want to try to be more like them. When we put people in pits,

we want to try to get them to be more like us.

And as long as our energy is futilely trying to be somebody we're not or trying

to get others somebody they're not,

all that energy is dissipated energy stopping us from being ourselves.

And the magnificence of ourself is the secret to the unborrowed visionary.

The unborrowed visionary is an original thinker that has the courage to

not conform, but to go on and walk a path of original thinking.

The gentleman that you know, from founder of apple, Steve Jobs,

talked at Stanford University about, it's the misfits,

it's the square pegs in round holes,

it's the people that don't fit into the rest of society and don't conform

and don't abide by traditions, conventions, and don't

fathers, and preachers and teachers, and conventions,

traditions and morays around them,

but go within them and let the voice and the vision on the inside be louder than

all those opinions on the outside.

Those are the ones that activate their original thinking, their creativity.

Because they're the only ones that give themselves permission to shine and not

shrink and to stand out and not fit in and to be original,

not subordinate to the tradition.

Ernest Becker in his 'Denial of Death' wrote tremendously

about the difference between the collective heroism and

And it's the people that made the difference in history are the individual

heroes, not the collective heroes.

The collective hero's the person who fits into society and becomes respected by

society because they fit in, not because they stand out.

None of the Nobel prize winners, none of the Olympic medalists,

none of the great leaders, none of the people that have set new standards,

have been the ones that conformed.

They're the ones that had the courage to walk and beat a drum that had been

unbeaten and drummed before you might say.

So it starts by living by your highest values because the second you live by

your highest values, you give yourself permission to stand out.

And the second you live by lower values, because you're unfulfilled,

ou get your blood glucose and oxygen going into the

hindbrain and the amygdala where you want to avoid pain and seek pleasure,

so you're automatically now wanting to avoid rejection.

And as long as you want to avoid rejection from people's opinions,

then tradition of the past stays stagnant.

Aristotle spent 20 years with Plato,

from age 17 to 37.

And some of his ideas stood the test of time,

all the way to the time of Copernicus, centuries later,

very few people had the courage to challenge him

and many people were illiterate, they didn't have the courage to stand out,

but Copernicus studying some of the heliocentristic of Philolaus and

Aristarchus, the Pythagoreans and made observation,

looked at some of the things that were coming in on the telescope.

He started to realized, 'no,

we have a heliocentric system' and became an original thinker,

got ridiculed, violently opposed, challenged in some respects,

had a new way of looking at it. It broke the boundary of thinking.

Giordano Bruno was another original thinker. They burned him at the stake,

but 400 years later, they honored him as a genius 400 years ahead of his time.

You may not be appreciated while you're original thinking,

you may be laughed at and ridiculed.

I remember when I was 18 years old,

I was driving to the beginning of where I was starting college at the time,

trying to go back to school after being a high school dropout.

And I was sometimes doing carpooling with this other gentleman who was an

engineer and he had a dream of creating magnetic trains.

This was back in 1973.

He used to draw magnetic trains.

And we used to talk in the front seat as we're going to school,

that his dream was to create magnetic trains. He drew them, he drew the tracks,

he was amazing artist too.

And I told him that I wanted to travel the world and teach.

And we were enthused about our dreams at the time.

And one day we picked up another guy who caught a carpool with us,

and when we told him some of the things we were working on, he laughed.

He said, 'You come from a small town. You know, you're not educated.

Don't have fantasies, don't have expectations,

He ridiculed, he kind of condemned.

He didn't understand the meaning that we both had for our dreams.

He hadn't found his.

And people of mediocrity always pick on people that stand out.

And that was 1973. Just a few years ago,

I was doing a live presentation

and on one of our social media blogs that gentlemen who had not

ever seen since, got online and made an announcement,

'By the way, I'm a friend of Dr. Demartini. I used to carpool with him.'

And then underneath that, he said, 'You friggin did it.

You friggin did.'

He basically was saying that I never thought you would actually pursue it and

stay with it. When you're living by your highest values,

your space and time horizons grow, you achieve,

you're disciplined, reliable, and focused. You see things on the way,

not in a way.

And you embrace the pains and pleasures in the pursuit of that which is

purposeful to you. And you give yourself permission, because,

in that area, the way your brain is set up,

it has a filtering and gating mechanism in the thalamus,

the pulmonary nuclei,

that makes sure that you filter out of all of your reality,

every bit of information that helps you fulfill that highest value.

So you're going to excel in the highest value.

That is where you're going to actually do the most powerful accomplishment.

And in the process of doing that,

you're going to expand your space and time horizons.

If you can expand your space and time horizons by achieving and setting a bigger

goal and achieving and setting a bigger goal,

you'll eventually set a goal that's beyond your own life.

You wake up your legacy, immortality you might say,

as Heraclitus described in sixth century BC, century BC almost.

Giving yourself permission to shine, not shrink,

giving yourself permission to walk an unborrowed visionary's pathway,

giving yourself permission to find a problem, a challenge,

that really deeply means something to you that you're inspired to pursue,

that you can't wait to get up in the morning and work on, will guarantee,

not only your legacy, your immortality, but an original idea.

And to be crucified means you're on purpose. To be great means you're on,

to be great is to be misunderstood,

to be ridiculed and violently opposed until your evidence is so

evident to people then claim that they have known you and believed in you the

whole time, because you've turned them around and created a culture.

We can follow cultures or we can build a culture.

People who live by the lower values are followers.

They're like the animals avoiding pain and seeking pleasure,

trying to fit into the herd for protection.

But it's the executives,

it's the angels inside us that have a celestial view that see

beyond the moralities of hypocrisy,

and give themselves permission to go after something profoundly impactful on the

planet, because they want to make a difference.

I was speaking in a prison in South Africa,

Krugersdorp prison many years ago, probably 14 years now. And

I asked a thousand inmates in maximum security position,

three stories underground in orange uniforms,

'How many of you want to make a difference?' In a billionth of a second,

every hand went up.

No matter what they'd been through and no matter what they're going through,

these people are 25 years to life sentences,

they still want to make a difference, every one of them.

It's innate within us to express our authenticity.

We may not know the strategies or the skills to do it,

but I can tell you that living by priority is the secret.

Living by the highest priority action is one of the keys to mastering your life.

But giving yourself permission to go after what's really priority and focusing

on what's really the most important thing in your life and sticking to priority.

If you ask yourself,

what is the highest priority action I can do today that will serve the greatest

number of people with the resources you have today,

in the most effective and efficient manner,

and do that on a daily basis and stick to the highest priority actions and

discover the highest priorities of the highest priorities of the highest

priorities, you will automatically initiate that unborrowed visionary.

That one that has the courage. Courage means one from the heart.

Because when you're living authentically, you're living in your heart,

you're doing what you love. You're inspired by it. You

When you stop and think of a little boy who loves his video games,

the second he conquers a video game, he loves it so much,

it's highest on his values,

he immediately wants to go and tackle a new challenge.

He wants another video game that's more advanced.

And the second you go and you go after what's really important to you,

you're not running from challenge, you're seeking challenges.

Leaders pursue challenges that inspire them.

And it's the challenges that inspire that wakes up genius.

I wrote a little booklet many years ago on awakening genius.

And that was one thing I found consistent that it's the individuals that were

waked up their genius, awakened their genius,

are the individuals that pursue something so deeply meaningful.

Some of the Nobel prize winners, they worked for 30, 40, 50,

and 60 years trying to solve a problem.

They had something so deeply meaningful to them that they wanted to solve that

made a difference in the planet, a big problem, that they kept pursuing it.

And the key is to go and fill your day with priority.

That's where you're going to solve the problems the most.

That's where you're going to be the innovation. Your entire physiology,

your entire psychology,

even the sociological feedback and the theological feedback you have in your

life, are all trying to get you to that authentic state,

where you maximize your potential and awareness.

And maximizing your awareness and potential in your

is the key to waking up the solutions to the problems in the world.

And there's no end to the problems. The second you solve a problem,

there'll be a new problem.

And it's the individuals that love solving problems that awaken their genius and

wake up their innovation.

So the wisest thing I can tell you to do is to take whatever you're experiencing

in your sensory awareness, and ask,

how is it helping you fulfill what's highest on your value?

And everything you're doing in your motor actions,

what is the highest priority I can be doing?

If you prioritize your motor actions and your prioritize your sensory

perceptions and get everything on the way to your highest value, your mission,

your purpose, your identity, your authentic self,

I'm absolutely certain you're going to maximize your creativity, your genius,

and your problem solving capacities.

And you're not going to do it just for your own problems,

because you're measured,

your real impact to the world is based on the problems you solve.

If you saw problems in yourself, that's one level. If you do it in your family,

that's another, if you do it in the community, that's another, a state,

a city, a state, a nation.

But if you go after global problems and astronomical problems,

you leave a legacy, you leave an astronomical effect.

And you're giving yourself permission to actually do that is the key to making a

massive difference. It's also the key to financial rewards.

Every country that I've traveled in,

I've asked how many people have ever used Microsoft windows,

almost every hand in every country, by the thousands, put their hand up.

No wonder there. Look at the Apple phone.

You see people in every country using the Apple phone.

Because somebody solved a problem that people needed a solution for,

and they became billionaires.

Your rewards economic in life are a reflection of problems you solve.

So the question you want to ask is,

what is the biggest problem that is so deeply meaningful,

that you would love to dedicate your life to solving? Find that thing.

My highest value is teaching.

So any problems in human behavior is the things I love solving.

Any solutions for human behavior I work on.

Find that thing that is absolutely inspiring to you, that you want to solve.

Find that direction that is most meaningful.

Go on my Demartini website,

drdemartini.com go and do the Value Determination process, it's complimentary,

it's free, it's private.

And go determine what your real highest value is and answer it honestly,

don't write down answers and aren't really true.

Don't write anything but what your life demonstrates.

Don't write what you think it should be, ought to be, or supposed to be,

by some outside authority. Look at what your life demonstrates.

Find out the target, where it's focused,

and then fill your day with the highest priority actions to fulfill that.

And then ask yourself,

what is the biggest problem you want to solve on the planet?

Give yourself permission to be a solution, not the problem,

a solution to the world.

Because I guarantee you that inside you is the capacity to solve massive

problems. But you've got to give yourself permission to do it.

If you meet somebody that you think has done an extraordinary thing,

and it's massively creative, you can also sit down and write down,

what exactly is the specific traits, the actions, the inactions,

that they display or demonstrate that you admire most about their creativity?

And then go and dig inside yourself, since nothing's missing inside you,

look inside yourself for what you see in them.

You're not missing what they have, but it's in the area of your highest values,

just like it was in the area of their highest values. If

you try to do it and be creative in their area,

you may not be as fulfilled because it's not your highest value necessarily.

But unless it is, if it is, then fantastic.

But if you find somebody that you think is extraordinary creative,

and then you go find out what are the character traits you see in them and go

look inside them and wake those in you. I assure you nothing's missing in you.

I've been doing this exercise for years. Nothing's missing in you.

You just think it's missing in you.

And the thing you think is missing in you is the things you're too proud or too

humble to admit you have that you see in other people.

The moment you own all that,

is the moment you get to stand on their shoulders, not in their shadows,

and believe in your own ability to speak out. You know, public speaking,

one of the biggest fears that people have is fear of public speaking.

But you really don't have the fear of public speaking.

You speak to people in public all day long.

But the second you're in front of a group of people that you think are smarter

than you, or more success than you, or have more wealth than you,

or have more empowerment in any of those seven areas of life than you,

you're going to shrink, you're going to have a fear of speaking up,

because you're going to worry about their opinion of you and how you are in

relative to them. We're not here to compare ourselves to others.

We're here to compare our daily actions to our highest values.

That's how we maximize our genius. That's how we get gold medals.

That's how we solve problems and get the Nobel prize.

Because we're not doing a comparison of others. We're taking other people,

owning the traits of them, and then leveling the playing field,

so there's no need to put them on pedestals or pits.

There's simply just a realization that they're a colleague on a journey of

solving problems according to their values and our, doing ours,

according to our values. The moment we give ourselves permission to do that,

we'll stand out, not fit in, we'll rise and not fall,

and we'll end up having unborrowed vision.

So I'm absolutely certain that you have the capacity to do something

extraordinary and solve massive problems in the world.

You just haven't given yourself permission to do it. Right now think about that.

Tonight, meditate on that. Get a little pad of paper out,

or get your phone or whatever, and think,

what are the problems in the world that I would love to solve?

Find the one that's meaningful.

People who are living in their lower values and down in their amygdala want to

avoid problems, they want an easy life, but I guarantee you,

the second you go towards an easy life and try to avoid problems,

you attract problems you don't want. And that causes distress and illness,

and pro inflammation in your body.

But the second you're pursuing challenges that inspire you,

you don't have to attract the challenges that don't.

And in your highest values you look forward to challenges to solve.

It's in your lower values you try to avoid them.

You will never be creative and innovative and original thinking in your

amygdala, trying to avoid problems and seek the easy route,

because you're just going to go to the easiest path.

It's the innovator that's going out there that's willing to walk the path that

unique, blaze a new trail,

start a conflagration you might say in your city with an enthusiastic

pursuit of solving a problem that nobody's been willing to do.

I wanted to do that when it came to grief, since 1984.

I found a solution dealing with grief that I can guarantee a result in three

hours or less, I can dissolve any grief. I've yet to have it not work.

I worked on that to solve that problem.

There's no reason to have that problem anymore on this planet.

And that's because I had a dream to go and solve that problem.

Find inside you what's deeply meaningful that is a problem,

that serve vast numbers of people if you solve it,

and structure it and package it,

and you possibly could be the next Bill Gates or,

you know, person from Apple, Steve Jobs or whatever.

You could be the next person that has a vast fortune and a vast opportunity to

serve vast numbers of people. You got to give yourself permission to do it.

There's nothing missing in you. So whatever you see in them,

you have inside you.

So I just wanted to take a few moments to talk about creativity and genius.

And today I know we had a couple of little distractions,

but that's part of the game. We just go forward on.

Just know that no matter what happens on your life, see it on the way,

it'll keep you focused on priority,

where you're going to maximize your creativity.

Now that's just one of your powers in life, your creative genius,

there's many others.

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You have the capacity to do a global,

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If you look honestly at your life,

you will see that the most fulfilling moments of your life are when you just

solved the problem for some other human being.

I think we're designed to do that.

You measure an individual by their most distant ends. How big a vision,

how big a problem did they solve,

that'll tell you the life that they get to live.

So I just wanted to share a few moments on taking your creativity,

your innovation, your problem solving capacities to the next level.

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