Unlocking Your Creative Potential: Building Your Dharma Deck
00:00:00.000 | There's another hack that might be useful here.
00:00:02.120 | As soon as I started to get more connected
00:00:04.200 | with my essence as a storyteller,
00:00:06.080 | all of a sudden, this world of options began to appear.
00:00:09.560 | It was like, oh, you could start a podcast,
00:00:11.120 | you could write a book, you could write articles.
00:00:13.020 | There are all these different ways
00:00:14.600 | that you could express yourself as a storyteller.
00:00:16.560 | So then the question is, what do I do?
00:00:18.120 | One of the tools in the book is what I call a Dharma deck,
00:00:21.480 | which is anytime something emotionally inspired me,
00:00:24.960 | I would literally write it down on an index card.
00:00:27.240 | Then what I would do is about once a week,
00:00:29.560 | I would go to a quiet place or take a walk,
00:00:31.800 | and I would take that stack of index cards with me,
00:00:33.760 | and I would sort them from top to bottom.
00:00:36.360 | The ones that had the most emotional pull for me,
00:00:39.200 | the ones that were calling me the most,
00:00:41.240 | stayed at the top of the pack.
00:00:42.560 | The ones that didn't went to the bottom half of the pack.
00:00:44.480 | And what you notice over time is that
00:00:46.880 | there would probably be like
00:00:48.600 | somewhere between one and three cards
00:00:51.080 | that will always just stay at the top of the pack, right?
00:00:53.600 | No matter what, it's like,
00:00:54.640 | those are the ones that you don't wanna give up.