survivors?

It's Jon Murphy, psychiatric
nurse practitioner.

I'm coming back with another
episode of Survivor Notes.

Just had a couple thoughts I wanted
to share with you real quick.

' cause the theme is.

Creativity, the power of creativity
to open the mind and ultimately

how when we externalize creatively,
we are able to fill in a a gap.

There's something that
fixes an emotional wound.

We have to reckon with how we feel.

We have to create.

Because of that, we have to create.

In spite of that, we have to create.

While channeling that, finding a conduit
for these emotions, it's necessary.

Now what inhibits creativity?

It's resistance, it's friction.

So let's talk creativity in
the water and age in the a IH.

Okay?

And I'm gonna give you a
little bonus cheat code for

you right now on the podcast.

I am gonna give you a little
bonus cheat code right here.

You can check out my book
cheat codes on Amazon.

It's uh, Jonathan Murphy Cheat Codes, how
I hacked my ADHD brain, and you can too.

But right here I'm gonna give you
a new cheat code one I've developed

since then, and that is I suppose
if you have an ADHD brain, I could

probably guess this is your cheat code.

People with ADHD are different.

The things that are good for you are
probably harder for other people.

The things that are hard for you
are probably good for other people.

You know, the mindless things, the
emails, the tasks, the just showing

up for work, checking the box.

But that's not you and it's not me.

So do we do about it?

The urge to create, you
might have a lot to say.

I've always been full of creativity.

I had someone from my past tell
me, you're a creative force.

And it clicked in my brain right before
Compass Point Institute was going

through a creative resurgence anyway,
and then it got directed, the energy

got directed where, well, at the place
I have the greatest value, and that is.

My insights into enduring, surviving,
and dealing with mental illness.

I was born into a completely dysfunctional
household, multi-generational

toxicity and narcissism, and I
survived it by trying to figure out.

What was, how to help people I guess,
although it was certainly never

framed that way in the beginning.

In fact, it was constantly around
people that were just talking

about how good other people were.

what I was doing was
somehow selfish, right?

But nonetheless.

You don't need to talk
about it to enjoy it.

You don't need recognition or validation
for the things that are just enjoyable.

Use yourself.

Validate yourself.

I remember there's a period in my
life, or one of those moments that

you move through and you feel good
about yourself, and you expect other

people to maybe congratulate you for
something, especially if you stayed quiet.

You've congratulated other people.

You know, that's always
been my experiences.

I've always wanted the best for
everyone else, even if I felt worthless.

And in my lowest points in my life, like
early twenties, I felt like a loser.

My friends were going to
college, so they were a big deal.

And I was just lucky to have
such successful friends, right?

But my come up all slow and
steady was just like quieter.

Well, I was at my lowest point,
and yet I had the most people.

It's like for some reason I was
really good use to other people.

I was very popular when I
was the biggest Loser facts.

And it's lonely at the top, but I
would say, you need to find your crew.

You need to find your gang.

And.

You need to find what works best
for you, and you need to find

your value, and you need to find
a place where you can be creative.

So when you're being creative,
what's inhibiting you?

And I never even, I always felt
uncomfortable embracing this

role as a nurse practitioner.

Certainly I enjoyed it within my
personal pursuits, but I realize

now I was internalizing a lot.

It's like, I can't do my.

Work and then show up at the family,
get together and talk about it.

So it's hard to feel good about it.

It's hard to want to do it right.

You have to dumb yourself
down and be stupider.

So back to the original point, and that's
ADHD storytelling for you right there.

Here we are in 2025 and we
have AI at our fingertips.

What's the creative explosion
that I've experienced?

It's actually detached from technology.

I learned how to initiate songwriting
every single day, starting in January,

2025, start a new song every day.

Something that broke through, I
realized I didn't need to finish.

It's just what starting.

And with artistic process, it's just
if you keep creating, and keep creating

and roll with the resistance, certainly
you gotta follow things through.

But there's a bit of friction.

If you have friction, that's
why I'm talking on this podcast

now, not working on the book.

I was earlier, because this feels right.

So that's what we have to think of.

And then what drains our energy?

So now AI cheat codes,
my book, cheat codes.

A lot of people think AI is a cheat code.

Well, it could be.

It's incredible technology, but.

So was the steam engine.

The Internet's amazing.

With every great power comes great
responsibility, but not only that,

there's just the way that's on hard
mode and the way that's on easy mode.

But if you're creative, where
do you get stuck in the mustard?

Where do you get friction?

Lemme tell you exactly how
I use a I and how I don't.

So.

When AI came on the scene, I
was like, I am not into it.

If you've heard me talk,
you probably can guess

you know, the myth of
progress, not my biggest thing.

I've been even called
a Luddite nonetheless.

Here we are in this ai, it's
technology that's being used.

So I used it, played around with it.

I had some fun with it, making up,
playing around with a buddy of mine,

like, Hey, look at this funny script.

But this was before I broke through.

I was using it, Hey, write me a script.

Write me a comedy routine.

no, no, no.

There it is.

That's the problem.

So I pulled away from it.

I got the novel use from it.

But I ultimately just, well actually
to be honest, there was another detour.

I started playing around with the images
and then I got a demon's face came out.

It was like, gimme a beach.

And then I saw a demon's face and I was
like, that's enough internet for today.

Never again.

So I came to this point in my life when
I was creative every day, and I just

wanted this to be a part of my work life.

I realized not everyone's creative
and this is something I'm good at,

so how do I do it the most that
I can and the consistent I can.

And I teamed up with my buddy James
Kennedy Compass Point Institute.

He gave me the go ahead to
build everything I have.

You know, I got the book on Amazon
sheet codes, how I hack my ADHD brain,

and you can too, in the show notes,
you can check out a link to that.

Kindle Unlimited got, uh, my, my blog,
which I've had for a while, but I've

updated, it's called Focus Path Insights.

Got a course, this podcast, I'm talking
to you now, the YouTube channel, compass

Point Institute, but it's really just
a bridge to building bigger things.

James and I have sites set a little bit
higher, but in the modern age, how do we

develop systems of the lowest friction?

You know, I'm still working.

I'll just tell you what I'm not doing.

I'm not writing emails,
I'm not doing notes.

I see my patients and
then I dictate the notes.

I, if you're a nurse practitioner
or clinician, I delegate those

things and not to, I don't know.

I haven't to AI though People say the
systems are good because I don't want to

entrust the AI to be accurate in a human
way, but it's a tool, so how do we use it?

And this is how I used it, exactly
how I'm talking to you now.

I just spoke into my phone, I went into
a Google Doc voice to text, and I spoke

and I spoke and I talked some more.

It was the most massive brain
dump ever, and it was into Google

Documents and that turned into
using ai, you know, dumping it in.

So when you're doing that, is it AI
cheating or is it creativity so that

anyone thinks that AI is cheating?

Go.

Do the creative thing with ai 'cause it's
not, you're not gonna get anything great.

And if you're, if you're not
gonna get anything, great.

I mean, you could spit out something
and you could put it online.

But it's just gonna be another
frustrating, mundane task.

So you gotta find a way to be creative.

I like to be creative on paper first, and
then maybe type or do what I'm doing now.

Talk to text, dump it in
the AI and problem solve.

And then if you have friction,

Just run a query.

what's the best way to approach this?

think of it as a way to help work
things through, but you're the

final judge and there's limitations.

It can get clunky, unorganized,
copy, paste, but at the end of

the day, however you're using it.

AI is a great tool to allow creativity.

So everything that I have going into
the AI to do anything for me comes from

me in my words, whether it's the pen
the voice, this has always happened.

there's been ghost
writers, but other humans.

had to do our bidding, now
we have a computer here.

And the technology is pretty
incredible to reduce friction in your

life and to access your creativity.

Your creativity is your greatest asset.

it's a creator's economy.

Doesn't mean everyone needs to blast
their face on YouTube, but you just

have to think what is the thing
that you is the greatest value.

In the world, the greatest thing
that you have to offer the world,

it's not your baseball collection.

It's not your Nintendo.

Cartridges, even if you have excite bike.

That was a good one.

Well, it's the thing you've done
your most, your life experience,

the thing that you've done the most,
your wisdom lived experience, because

not everyone can live any life.

I was talking to a friend about this.

Well, what do you do?

Well, I do very boring work.

It's dah da, da, da.

It's logistics, it's management.

you call it boring.

You can call it whatever you want.

Does it have value?

It sounds like it has tremendous value,
but if you're so focused on getting the

piece of paperwork done order the what?

The rubber stamp you have to push, you're
getting energy drained, but you have

wisdom and we have an amazing opportunity
to put that information, communicate that

information and target that information.

But more than that, it's
about the act of creativity.

It's growth, it's inspiration,
and it's a cheat code, but.

You wanna be careful because there
ain't no cheat code in this thing

called life, the hacks, the workarounds.

They're not a substitute for thinking.

Never ever use technology to
replace something that will be an

opportunity for you to learn, an
opportunity for you to use your brain.

If the technology is making you turn
your brain off when you otherwise

would think, be very scared.

And anytime you get into
the doom scroll, notice it.

'cause that's friction, it's energy.

So remove that energy and create with me
and I hope you gain something from that.

And Claude is what I use.

Just text, but it's a lot of work.

It ain't easy.

It's, it's a lot of work,
but it should be fun.

The work, the creative work should
be engaging, but man, I'm getting

kind of tired, so can't burn out yet.

It's just the beginning.

So thanks for listening to
another episode of Survivor Notes.

This is Jon Murphy,
psychiatric nurse practitioner.

We'll talk to you next time.