Creative Genius: You | Patti Dobrowolski | TEDxBend

[Music] [Applause] I'd like to make a bet with you are you ready I bet that every person in this audience has a dream it might be a secret dream might be a dream you started but never achieved it might be a dream that you've told many people about or a dream you've never said out loud dreams are powerful they transform us I had this dream when I was 29 that I would be an actor so I created a one-woman show called inside out and I performed it in Portland Oregon I love the title I thought I was great in it the show opens I kill it you know I'm up all night waiting for the Portland Tribune to come out cuz I know I know in my bones it's going to be a rave review and it's gonna launch my solo domestic / international career it's 5:00 a.m. I'm on the street corner I open the paper to the theater section there it is Patti Dover Volsky that's me in big bold letters can't sing can't act can't dance can't write don't bother how many of you have ever had your dream come crashing down like this you get a diagnosis you lose your job partner walks out the door what do you do you take that dream you hide it you shame it you shelve it or you can do what I did leave town but late at night that dream continues to haunt you you keep keep playing it in your head you wish you could make it happen well today I'm gonna show you three simple keys you can use to accelerate achieving your dream are you feeling brave okay good get your shovel because we're gonna have to dig out that dream you buried now in your program four pages from the back is this picture and I want you to turn in your program to it and get a pen they've been handing out some to you grab a pen or a pen that you've been using and then pay attention you have to move fast if you stay ahead of your fear here so in this big poufy cloud I want you to write two to three words or draw two to three pictures of your dream like I'm writing my book I'm falling in love I'm starting my own business I'm buying my own house draw a few or write a few words got it okay let's let's grab a key key number one draw your future draw your future now in order to keep your amygdala calm I'm going to tell you a story now your amygdala as you know is this part of your brain that gets all freaked out when you start to make change so stay calm and let me tell you about Mike Mike was an assistant film director on many films but his secret dream was to make a film of his own so one year Mike's in Bali and he's working on a commercial and he gets this idea for his own short film because he falls in love with Bali and he wants everyone to see it now coincidentally someone sent Mike a copy of my talk from 2011 TEDx draw your future so Mike watches it and then he draws a picture of his dream him making that film accepting the multiple awards it will win the domestic / international audiences watching it loving it and then mike chooses three bold steps to activate that dream write the script do a Kickstarter for fundraising assemble a crew Mike does all three and KaBlam a year later Mike's in Bali shooting his movie now since I gave that talk in 2011 I've received over 340 to 517 but I'm not counting emails comments tweets from people all around the world who like Mike watch that talk 90% of them said it inspired them to draw their future of those who did sixty six percent wrote me of their success that picture made me believe that career was possible Stella Kenya I left that bad relationship took my family and moved to a new country behnazir Spain I stopped trying to live my mom's dream and started living my own carlos brazil and 98% said my drawing skills suck [Laughter] the great news is it doesn't matter if you won draw your future first draw where you are in the current state then draw the ideal state then come up with these three bold steps to get you there seems simple enough right exactly 30 percent of the comments came from people who were brave enough to write me of their frustration I can't seem to make it happen you make it sound easy it's not that easy I'm scared can you help me are you a life coach and these comments nag me like what'd I do wrong why didn't why can't they why they get stuck why do we get stuck we draw a picture we act on it and that boom logjam what's the log jam is it fear what if I can't handle a bigger future pride I like Who I am pretty much am I gonna have to change a lot I think it might be guilt I don't deserve something that good you know who deserves that my sister Teresa she is so nice and this is exactly what happened to Mike the filmmaker he's halfway through shooting his first cut and he sends me this urgent email Patti help I'm in Bali and I'm stuck I'm halfway through my film and I've run out of money maybe I should have kept my real job Patti can you help me are you a life coach no quickly I write Mike back Mike listen 95% of the brain is run by the subconscious which houses belief you've formed before the age of 15 beliefs like I'm not brave enough I'll never have enough money I never finish anything and those beliefs run the show under here automatically without you even knowing it so you can have that dream and draw a picture after picture of that dream but if you never go down here and interrupt those beliefs that dream won't happen because what you dream and what you believe is in conflict key number two change your mind now after I got that terrible theater review I knew I had to recreate myself and I'm me so it had to be dramatic I was mortified it was humiliating so I drove from Portland Oregon to Berkeley California in one night and started my new career the next morning weeding people's gardens for money so much sexier than being a professional actor and with all that weeding time I got to listen to those limiting beliefs playing over and over and over again in my head why did I think I could be an actor [Music] finally I got so tired of hearing myself I thought wait a minute I wonder if I could pull those beliefs out of my brains like weeds out of the ground and then I threw him in the compost well now what now what I wonder if I could plant my future with these beans sounds familiar I'm gonna help people change their lives I'm gonna travel the world giving talks I am gonna fall in love for life and then I sat on the dirt I closed my eyes I opened my heart and I raised this new garden and handed it over to the universe now right here is the dividing line between what is and what could be the truth is you are not your mind you have a mind and you can change it you can do it so right now grab two of your beliefs that have been holding you back from your dream and write them down write them down and get ready to compost them and then grab three beans and plant them for your future like I'm confident I'm safe I'm loved plant them now key number three turn down your ego and turn up your creative genius creative genius who him no creative genius you creative genius isn't a person it's an innate process that all of us are born with to tap your creative genius you simply need to take a little time for yourself every day I'm talking ten minutes sit down get quiet close your eyes and then and this is hard especially for North Americans start to daydream daydreaming allows you access to these ideas outside your conscious mind in this alpha state the ground is soft it's easy to weed out the stuff you don't want and plant the stuff you do look it's starting to grow look it's leafing out look there's you you can't stop grinning that's you running that nonprofit company changing the world look there's you looking into the eyes of that long-awaited lover I can't believe you're finally here look that's you looking out that window of your new house at your kids yes you have kids can they wrestle any harder imagine it feel it seal it with a kiss and then let it go boom boom boom boom then get up every day and do something to get that dream learn everything you can about who you want to be where you want to go how you want to live creative genius whispers the inside but you hear down on the ground you gotta act loudly for that key to turn the lock so I emailed Mike to find out what happened with this film and he wrote back in 2015 it went to the Cannes Film Festival since then made in Bali has won multiple awards all around the world and Mike said I can't wait to make my first full-length feature film now when I came out here I made a bet with you but I'd like to raise that bet I bet if you won draw your future to change your mind and three go inside to fuel that dream with imagination and love you and your creative genius will open the door to that dream life that's waiting there just for you but don't take my word for it prove it to yourself prove it to you creative genius you thank you [Applause] [Music]

Channel: TEDx Talks

Views: 139,356

Rating: 4.9344859 out of 5

Keywords: TEDxTalks, English, United States, Life, Achievement, Art, Change, Creativity, Dreams, Future, Love, Visualization

Id: zTZjAk6yqfY

Length: 15min 10sec (910 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 11 2017