The Last Father's Day Gift I Gave My Dad -- An Excerpt From the Forthcoming book: Let Me Out (A Practical Guide for Bringing Your Ideas to Life)

Love can make you a more creative person. Understand that when I use the term creative, I don't mean that you'll suddenly have mastery of any particular skill. I mean that the more you love, the less attention you will pay to your inner-critic and the freer your thinking will become. Getting space from this inner-critic is what allows a person to be fearlessly responsive to what's taking place around them. This ability to sense and respond is one of the underpinnings of creativity itself, and it is for example, a quality a high-level jazz pianist must have to be able to improvise. Research shows that one of the most effective methods of dampening the voice of the inner-critic is to develop a more profound relationship with the people you love. Professor and author Barbara L. Fredrickson is the director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Fredrickson is known for her pioneering research on the long-lasting emotional benefits of human interconnection. She writes about an interesting behavioral quirk called "hedonic adaptation." Simply put, this means that people who win the lottery, for example, find that after a short while, they're no happier than they were before they struck it rich. That's because they've adapted to the change. According to Professor Fredrickson, our relationships with the people we love (unlike our relationship with fame or material gain) are not subject to hedonic adapt...
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