Your Creative Push

Alex Hofeldt is a high school science teacher from Illinois and is the creator and host of Beautiful Dust Specks, a podcast designed to show the world the wonder and motivation in Science. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/alexhofeldt In this episode, Alex discusses: -How he became interested in podcasts and podcasting. -Some of the fears that held him back from initially starting "Beautiful Dust Specks." -The students that really encouraged him to create the podcast. -How one of his missions is to be a better teacher than his bad teachers growing up. -How the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image inspired him to go on a rant which led to a yearly speech he makes in his school. -The inspiration that comes from being his kids favorite teacher. -Trying your hardest to ignore the haters and embrace the lovers. -How humans are the only creature in the animal kingdom to have creativity. -Flow state and the science behind it. -How everyone has their creative muse or their creative bug, even if it differs from "tr