68. Finding Your Creative Center

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In the early 1950s, Anne Morrow Lindbergh—writer, pilot, mother of five, and wife to aviator Charles Lindbergh—spent two weeks alone in a small cottage on Florida’s Captiva Island. During this trip she collected shells, cooked simple meals, and wrote about the trappings of modernity and the search for simplicity. Although this was before cell phones, the internet, and social media, her insights are just as relevant today.

Highlights

• What Anne Morrow Lindbergh considers to be the true enemy of creativity

• How distraction “pulls one off center,” and ways to remedy this shift

• Gentle ways to reduce the noise in your life

• What it means to ‘create a container’ around your writing, and ideas for summer (or any season)

• Simplification as an intentional, inside job

• Invitations vs. optimization

Links + Resources

• Episode 40: Searching for White Space

• Episode 41: The Discomfort of White Space

• Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• What is the mental load?

• Born for This by The Score

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