Authenticity and Honesty

So, carrying on from our discussion last time about disruption in both life and our creative processes, Helen, do you think disruption could ever be a positive thing?

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, I think it makes you think out of the box at times.

And for instance, another medical example, but I broke my arm last year and it meant that, and I broke my right arm, which is the one that is my dominant arm and that I do all my writing with.

And obviously that meant that I really couldn't do my diaries.

unless I use my left arm so I kind of taught myself over this because I think I had my cast on for six weeks and you you can see in the archive from the archive I mean the first day when I was using my left arm like my writing was huge I hardly got any like I just put the the the date on the page and that took a path of the page

Listeners, it's worth looking through Helen's archive purely just to see the development of the skill, which was Helen learning to write with her left hand.

Well, yeah, and it was really...

A great learning curve for me.

In fact, since my arm being healed, I've actually tried to carry on using my left hand more because I realised that it was a muscle and a skill that could be developed.

For instance, I didn't realise until...

I'd broken my arm, how much everything was with my dominant hand.

So cooking, chopping with my right arm, I opened all of the windows and the doors.

When I was incapacitated, it...

I had to build the skills to do those.

Coordinative activity, you know, even just like holding a sieve and washing things under a tap with your other hand becomes a lot more difficult.

So I have tried consciously to occasionally like, do those things with my non-dominant hand.

I know last week you actually challenged me to have a go at drawing with my left hand.

Oh, did you try? I gave it a go and I'm not sure you could...

It's like toddler level.

but it's fun it

was fun that was it i had i had i even the basis i struggled to even hold the crayon in my hand my hand just wasn't aware of how to do that yeah so is it it's it's very interesting that creative response can come from a broken arm

yeah

and and that's disruption in action absolutely another form of disruption I would say is like the thoughts and the opinions of other people and I know Helen that you're a very compassionate and empathetic person and you would hate to offend anybody

yeah