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Andre Walton

Andre Walton

Social psychologist, 2x TEDx speaker, and bestselling author (Creative Thinking, Banish Burnout™); founder of Plan4Change, a Reno, Nevada coaching practice focused on burnout, creativity, and innovation.

Jun 1, 2026

10:49
How are burnout and creativity connected?
10:53
Well, burnout is, I believe, related to the balance between these two ways of thinking.
11:05
and the very convergent analytical way of thinking.
11:09
If you think about how you think when you're doing sort of something deductive or analytical, whether it's, you know, should we be buying another house? You know, where is it? Where are we going to buy it? What's the school district like? What are the interest rates? How will they impact our monthly outgoings? This is all very focused in, drilling down.
11:32
And that is a very convergent way of thinking.
11:36
If AI encourages that kind of process, and so it's not unreasonable to think that as AI increases, if we don't know anything about it, then the instances of burnout, which are already huge.
11:53
Mm-hmm.

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32:30
know,
2:46
So where did the journey begin in terms of your relationship with unboundedness?
2:52
Well, in reality, it began at birth.
2:58
And I was the son of a cookhouse keeper in 1950s Great Britain.
3:06
And the...
3:08
And she was a very busy person.
3:11
I mean, she was the cook, the housekeeper for a household that could encompass a lot of people from time to time.
3:20
And she just was always doing something.

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16:25
How did that then... travel forward into you starting to work with creativity in particular? I think

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