The Nature in Creativity
The Nature in Creativity is a podcast exploring the deeper conditions that allow authentic creative work to emerge — attention, perception, natural inclination, and the inner order behind making. Through reflective conversation, each episode examines the unseen processes that shape creativity before the work itself appears.
The Nature in Creativity
Natural Inclination
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In this episode of The Nature in Creativity, Heather Sarin and Brad MacDonald explore the idea of natural inclination — the things we are instinctively drawn towards before expectation, identity, or external pressure begin to shape us.
The conversation moves through instinct, trust, experimentation, mistakes, creative tension, and the difference between forcing an outcome and allowing work to emerge naturally. Drawing from experiences in painting, photography, teaching, cooking, and creative process, they discuss how comparison and conditioning can pull people away from what feels most authentic to them.
Rather than focusing on creativity as performance or achievement, this episode considers creativity as a process of recognising what already exists within us and learning not to interfere with it.
Topics include:
- instinct and alignment
- creativity and conditioning
- learning versus imitation
- mistakes and experimentation
- analogue and digital process
- trust in creative practice
- comparison and artistic identity
- recognising recurring patterns in one’s work
This episode continues the series’ exploration into the deeper conditions that allow authentic creative work to arise.
