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The Best Cannabis Strains for Creativity: Creative Reflection — PILGRIM SOUL

Shawn Gold
6 min readSep 15, 2020

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Behavioral Psychological studies reveal that people, on average, believe themselves to be better skilled beyond their actual capabilities. This phenomenon is largely driven by an individual’s ego, the part of the mind that is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity. In fact, without even realizing it, people often go to great lengths in order to protect their ego. This is exemplified most overtly in social media, as people edit and filter their lives for likes, comments and shares, all serving as a short-lived ego boost to protect one’s self-perceived image.

Cannabis, beyond its many medicinal purposes, also uniquely allows for a high amount of self-reflection and introspection. While the ego fuels people’s sense of self-delusion and grandiosity, Cannabis can actually help people tap into the true essence of who they really are beyond the ego. The Cannabis strains profiled here promote one’s capacity for Creative Reflection by helping to peel away at the ego and ask honest questions. Creativity, above all, is questioning. It arises from the need to answer something or to find the solution to a given problem.

One cannot reach their true creative potential without looking within first. Creative Reflection is about observing and encouraging our creative self to…

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Shawn Gold
Shawn Gold

Written by Shawn Gold

CEO PIlgrim Soul Brand — a mission-driven company focused on optimizing human creative performance to gain a competitive edge in business and life.

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