19 - The Art of Good

B-RAD with Brad Toews

Jorey Tessier has a passion for youth and wanted to work in a capacity where he could encourage and influence young people. So he decided to be a teacher.

But when he was graduating from university and was considering his next step, the transition to teacher's college, something inside him had changed. The goal he was pursuing for the last eight years of his life no longer inspired him the way it once did.

Asking himself the question, "what would be the best thing to do now?" the first idea that popped into his mind was to write a children's book.

He had no idea what he was getting into.

Writing and publishing a book is like all creative endeavours, ideas come to us ill-formed and half-baked, raw and unedited. They need lots of work to be brought to life.

Some people feel they don't measure up to a creative standard. We label ourselves, other people, and activities as creative or not. We think some people have more creativity, others have less.

But creativity isn't someone's ability to write, paint, draw, dance, sculpt, or create art. Creativity is engaging with new thoughts and ideas, it's participating in conversations, listening, and taking action. It's the spark that affects change in a person, in both subtle and significant ways.

Like many of us, Jorey's life path has not been what he anticipated but his experience has taught him that

"when you create things in the art of good... there's something that the universe gives you. It's not a gift. It just is. When you create something based on good, when you don't want anything back, you get everything back."

Join me in this episode as I talk with Jorey about what it means to be creative, asking better questions about our work, and pursuing the art of good as a career goal.

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