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I found that the creative flow state that I get into making music is exactly the same as it was drawing the sneakers or painting or editing a video or doing graphic design. So it's kind of like a plug and play system for all the different mediums with the same kind of mental space and mental practice that I'm utilizing.
I think what has given me a real, we all want the world to be a better place. There's something that happened with me as I was developing as a human that maybe helped me to be a little bit more attuned than many other people might be on difference and power and what it means to have all your tools in your toolbox and what it might be like for people who are just as smart, just as capable, but might not have the same set of tools.
The whole act of synthesizing information is such a mysterious and wonderful one. Visually, you know, I spent a year traveling in Europe looking at the Great Art of Europe when I was in my early twenties and drawing a lot and knowing that all that information was somehow going to come back out, and it did.
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MD · PhD · MPH · MBA
Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.
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