CL010: Tosha Silver on ego and creativity

San Francisco based author and teacher on yogic philosophy, Tosha Silver talks about her book "Change Me Prayers" and going back to teaching. Tosha tells us how she got interested in spirituality and also shares with us how she works one to one with people and helps them through spiritual and emotional crisis.

"When the ego was running the writing, the writing was terrible. Drop the fixation on the "my" and start to think of it as the writing, the art because that invites what's greater than the ego." - Tosha Silver

Tosha Silver Show Notes:

- on the reader's feedback
- Tosha's experience on speaking about spirituality at Google
- on introducing people to spiritual teachings
- on the role of the ego in creativity

Favorite Tools:

- Scrivener

Favorite Book:

- M Train by Patti Smith

Favorite Record:

- Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Interview Links:

http://toshasilver.com/
https://twitter.com/toshasil
https://www.facebook.com/toshasilver13

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This is The Creative Life Podcast where creativity expert James Taylor brings you interviews with creative entrepreneurs, artists, writers, musicians, designers, educators, directors and performers.

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ABOUT JAMES
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As a creativity expert Taylor is a frequent guest speaker at universities and international conferences. He has given keynotes and talks at Apple, Subscription Site Summit in San Francisco, the British Music Show in the UK and at several universities across Europe including University of Dundee in Scotland and University of Macerata in Italy. He is often called upon by media outlets to give his views on trends in creativity and innovation. He has been quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Columbus Dispatch, STV, Business Insider and San Jose Mercury News as well as featured on BBC TV and being the subject of a 30minute program on his life for BBC Radio Scotland. As a host on shows about creativity and innovation he has interviewed legendary investor Maynard Webb (Yahoo.com, eBay.com & Salesforce.com board member) and New York Times best-selling writers Chris Guillebeau ($100 Startup), Rolf Potts (Vagabonding), Brand Cooper (The Lean Entrepreneur) and Ryan Holiday (Trust Me I’m Lying). James is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).

Meet James at http://www.JamesTaylor.me

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In ‘The Creative Life’ podcast, James Taylor interviews leading creatives and innovators and has them reveal their creativity and innovation strategies and techniques to help you unlock your own creativity and live ‘The Creative Life’. As a leading creativity coach James teaches and interviews creative leaders on subjects including; how creativity works, the creative process, what is creativity, how to generate ideas, creativity exercises, creativity research, creative block, creative personality types, theories of creativity, creative thinking, educational creativity, divergent thinking, organizational creativity, creative cultures, and innovation. His work builds on other leading creativity experts including Julia Cameron, Sir Ken Robinson, Michael J Gelb, Eric Maisel, Scott Barry Kaufman, Twyla Tharp, Todd Henry, Jeff Goins, Richard Florida, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Steven Pressfield, Tina Seelig, Josh Linkner and many others. It also brings you interviews with leading entrepreneurs inspired by Tim Ferriss, Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas, Entrepreneur on Fire, NPR, Startup Podcast, Seth Godin, Marie Forleo and Brendon Burchard. James Taylor shows us how we can all learn to be more creative.

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