#175: Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross — Your Brain on Art: Neuroaesthetics, Wellbeing, and Creative Practice, plus Finding Your Voice, Tapping Into Intuition

Neuroaesthetics researcher Susan Magsamen and Google design leader Ivy Ross on creativity as a biological necessity, intuition, and the aesthetic mindset for a good life.

You'll learn:
• Habits that Susan and Ivy turn to when they need to re-centre.
• What Susan and Ivy are trying to change in the world with their day jobs.
• The beginning of Susan and Ivy working together.
• Clear evidence that proved to Susan and Ivy that their work was needed.
• Advice for using your intuition to be more creative.
• How a writer might find their voice.
• Questions to ask yourself if you’re writing a similar book to Your Brain on Art.
• Principles that Susan and Ivy use to help them live a good life.
• The link between nature and neuroaesthetics.
• The transforming power of journaling.

Resources and Links:
• 📄Interview Transcript (docs.google.com/document/d/1EIr8-0yX499L_iowo5…)
• Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (yourbrainonart.com/your-brain-on-art-book)
• Website (yourbrainonart.com)
• Neuroarts Resource Center (neuroartsresourcecenter.com/home)

About Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Susan Magsamen is the founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she is a faculty member, and she co-directs the NeuroArts Blueprint. Ivy Ross is Vice President of Design for hardware product area at Google, leading an award-winning team, and is also an arts grant recipient and recognised creative leader.

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