Best Jared Volle, MS Podcasts (2024)

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Meta-Cognition & Creativity Blocks #63 4:34

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Meta-Cognition: Breaking Through Creativity Blocks By Thinking About Your Own Thinking ANNOUNCEMENT: Future episodes will come out on an irregular schedule until my schedule settles down. Make sure you're subscribed to get notifications on new episodes. LINKS: Facebook.com/KaizenCreativity (Interact with other listeners) JaredVolle.com/Podcast (Fin…

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How Negative Moods Effect Creativity #62 10:46

3y ago10:46

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Your brain has an awesome survival feature that lets it focus on problems, but in the modern age it can trigger negative emotions and stress. Here's how negative moods affect creativity and how to get the most out of the creative process, regardless of mood. Support The Show: Become a Patron Facebook.com/KaizenCreativity (Interact with other listen…

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You Cannot Escape How Important You Are #61 5:18

3y ago5:18

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Your actions matter. You are a time-traveling badass. Here's why: Support The Show: Become a Patron Facebook.com/KaizenCreativity (Interact with other listeners) JaredVolle.com/Podcast (Find useful links) https://linktr.ee/JaredVolle (Find Jared around the internet) Vote On The Next Topic (June 2021): https://www.patreon.com/posts/52195467 --- Send…

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Creativity Isn't "Well Rounded" #60 7:22

3y ago7:22

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Support The Show: Become a Patron Facebook.com/KaizenCreativity (Interact with other listeners) JaredVolle.com/Podcast (Find useful links) https://linktr.ee/JaredVolle (Find Jared around the internet) Vote On The Next Topic (June 2021): https://www.patreon.com/posts/52195467 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kaize…

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Motivation, Beliefs, & Assumptions - How To Sustain Motivation In Creativity #59 17:59

3y ago17:59

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Where does motivation come from, how can we get more of it, and how can we ensure that we don’t waste it? Motivation is all about being able to take action. But the question is… what action are we taking? We only want to take more action if that action is aligned with where we want to go. A belief system is a set of beliefs we have about what is ri…

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3 Ways Busy Schedules Kill Creativity #58 13:11

3y ago13:11

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*** Support The Show: Become a Patron Facebook.com/KaizenCreativity (Interact with other listeners) JaredVolle.com/Podcast (Find useful links) https://linktr.ee/JaredVolle (more about Jared) Vote On The Next Topic (June 2021): https://www.patreon.com/posts/52195467 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kaizencreativit…

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The World's Most Fascinating Creative Problem: How AI Safety Researchers Are Avoiding a Robot Apocalypse (#57) 24:14

3y ago24:14

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How are AI researchers avoiding a robot apocalypse? Discover how the Law of Unintended Consequences creates "Frankenstein Solutions" in our creativity. Vote On The Next Topic: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52195467 Support The Show: Become a Patron Part 1: The "Red Button Problem" (and different attempts to solve it) Part 2: The Law of Unintended C…

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Creativity In AI: What Creative People Can Learn From Artificial Intelligence (#56) 33:51

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How do we teach computers to be creative? Discover how an AI is trained to do tasks, both creative and otherwise. Vote On The Next Topic: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52195467 Support The Show: Become a Patron Part 1: How AI is trained to complete non-creative tasks Part 2: How AI is trained to complete creative tasks Part 3: Adversarial Algorithm…

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4C Model of Creativity (#55) 22:28

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4C Model of Creativity Mini-C Creativity Small-C Creativity Pro-C Creativity (Professional) Big-C Creativity Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaredVolle Blog: https://www.jaredvolle.com/4c-model-of-creativity/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kaizencreativity/message

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How Personal Values Shape Our Creativity (#54) 17:19

3y ago17:19

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How personal values shape our creativity LINKS Facebook.com/KaizenCreativity (Interact with other listeners) JaredVolle.com/Podcast (Find useful links) JaredVolle.com/Support (Donate or sponsor a show) https://linktr.ee/JaredVolle (more about Jared) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kaizencreativity/message…

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Componential Theory (#53) 9:25

3y ago9:25

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3 Ways To Find Creative Insights (Without Struggling For Them) (#52) 9:21

3y ago9:21

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3 Strategies for Eureka moments: Semi-Automatic Activity Meditation Dreaming Facebook.com/KaizenCreativity (Interact with other listeners) JaredVolle.com/Podcast (Find useful links) JaredVolle.com/Support (Donate or sponsor a show) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kaizencreativity/message…

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Getting Good Feedback (#51) 24:15

3y ago24:15

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As your creating today, think about how this strategy for getting feedback could help you. Remember that how you ask for feedback influences the responses you get. If you want objective feedback, then you need to ask questions in a way that makes it comfortable for people to respond to you. AdamMGrant on Twitter for more about organizational psycho…

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Find Creative Inspiration - How Sensitivity & Problem Discovery Lead to Innovation 5:22

3y ago5:22

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Creative people are sensitive to problems, but that’s a good thing. Most people are confronted with a problem and they choose to ignore it. Others have smaller problems that they don’t even consciously recognize are problems. Creativity thrives when there are problems. They guide our creative behavior. They teach us what we need to do. They show us…

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Marketing Innovation: How To Convince People To Value What They Just Learned Existed 8:59

3y ago8:59

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How do you convince people to value your creation when they just learned what it is? Innovations are solutions to problems. Some solutions are wildly original, like the first Google algorithm or iPhone. These solutions violently shoved the industry in a new direction. Wherever Yahoo was going, wherever the Motorola Razor was going, it no longer mat…

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Do More With Less - What Video Game Design Can Teach Us About Innovation 6:16

3y ago6:16

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One of my secret passions is game design. I love watching YouTube videos about how games are made and why game developers made the decisions that they did. The topic for this episode was inspired by 2 YouTube channels that explain video game design really well. One is Adam Millard, who has the Architect of Games. The other is Mark Brown, who has Ga…

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Bizarre Ways Frustration Influences Creativity 7:14

3+ y ago7:14

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When we deal with creativity blocks on this show, we’ve generally talked about procrastination because that’s an area where many people struggle. In this episode, I want to talk about another important way we block ourselves: Not being willing to put down the wrong tool. Relying on the wrong thinking strategy to solve a problem is a recipe for frus…

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Pull Motivation - How Curiosity Motivates Without Leaving You Drained 7:08

3+ y ago7:08

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Long before he was the world’s most famous scientist, Einstein use to sit on the bus and imagine what would happen if the bus traveled at the speed of light. His curious nature was responsible for the bizarre thought experiments he loved so much, and his continued curiosity is what motivated him to keep playing with the ideas for long periods of ti…

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How To Get Addicted To Creativity, Overcome Procrastination & Enjoy Work 5:28

3+ y ago5:28

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As your creating this week, pay special attention to the parts of the process you love. This is one of the best motivational techniques you can use. There’s no better way to start your creative process then with a burst of positive emotions. Those positive emotions at the beginning of your workday become addicting. Procrastination is no longer a st…

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Why You Should Spend More Time Daydreaming To Boost Creativity 5:23

3+ y ago5:23

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Daydreaming is fun. If you’re a creative person, it’s also surprisingly productive. So why don’t we do it more often? The short answer is ego. While daydreaming IS productive, it doesn’t FEEL productive. That’s an important distinction when it comes to motivation. The brain gives far more weight to how you subjectively feel about something than to …

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How To Motivate Employees To Be Creative 5:20

3+ y ago5:20

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What drives creative people to do what they do and how can we motivate people to be more creative? This is a particularly important question for businesses. While an entrepreneur might start a company because they’re already motivated to innovate, they have far less control over the people they hire. There are 2 types of motivation that dominate cr…

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How “I Can’t” Destroys Creativity (Constraints) 5:13

3+ y ago5:13

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In an earlier episode, we talked about how constraints guide your creative work. To refresh your memory, constraints are the boundaries that are placed on a product. Constraints are how we ensure that our creative work is not just unique, but useful as well. When we correctly define our constraints, we understand the full scope of the problem. We’r…

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2 Creative Skills of Prehistoric Humans 13:35

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The history of civilization is the history of creativity. You cannot talk meaningfully about the past without bringing up the most important people and inventions of the time. We are here today because of the creativity of the past. Creativity and culture are inseparable. In no small way, creative people are responsible for the world around us. Fro…

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Creativity Without Stress: How Elaboration Helps Us Create Without Worrying 5:19

3+ y ago5:19

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Ideas don’t pop into our heads fully formed and ready to launch. The process from initial idea to a finished product worthy of other people’s attention can be a long one. Each idea develops over time. Your very first attempt at a creative idea will likely only capture the general feeling of what you’re after. Your earliest work tends to be very abs…

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Instant Motivation: How Focus Influences Our Creativity 4:22

3+ y ago4:22

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What you focus on determines how you feel. When you think about happy memories, you’ll naturally feel happier. When you think about the awful thing someone did to you in the past, before long you’ll start feeling that in your body. Your attention determines how you feel. When we’re creating, our focus powerfully shapes our motivation. When we focus…

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PerceptGenesis: How Mental Labels Influence Creativity 14:00

3+ y ago14:00

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Innovative people spend so much time questioning the assumptions of their industry, but they rarely question their own assumptions and belief systems with the same level of scrutiny. How you perceive the world has a huge influence on your personal and professional life. Those perceptions come together to form beliefs, and those beliefs have a huge …

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Change Your Mental State To Boost Your Creativity: How Emotions Influence Creativity 4:18

3+ y ago4:18

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Creativity is just as much an emotional process as it is a cognitive one. Creativity isn’t just WHAT you’re thinking, it’s HOW you’re thinking. The emotional state that you’re in when you create powerfully influences your process, which, of course, determines your outcome. Being a stand-up comedian made this really easy for me to notice. I’m not pa…

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Marketing Creativity: Introverts & Extroverts 5:07

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Some of us are shy introverts, some of us are outgoing extroverts, but we all need to market our creativity. Marketing is always a tough topic for creative people because the skills the we use to create our products is different from the skills we use to market them. Introverts who are creative tend to be very good at the early stages of the creati…

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Why You Can’t Rush Creativity: Incubating Creative Ideas 10:19

3+ y ago10:19

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Ideas are like stupid children, you need to give them a chance to grow up before you’d actually want to be seen in public with them. Of course, I’m not a father, so perhaps I’m wrong. Incubation is about giving your ideas time to mature. When you incubate a problem, you’re allowing your subconscious mind to weigh in. Have you ever struggled with a …

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How Contradictory Personality Traits Lead To Creativity 7:22

3+ y ago7:22

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One of the most fascinating aspects of the creative personality is how often creative people have contradictory personality traits. Creative problem solving is incredibly difficult. There are so many moving pieces that it’s hard to know what to even try. This is why so much advice centers on shifting your perspective. Look at the problem from the t…

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How Dissatisfaction Guides Our Creativity 4:49

3+ y ago4:49

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Creativity leads to change. Innovators change the way the world works. In recent years, they’ve radically changed how we connect with others, how we purchase things, how we find entertainment, and more. Long before these innovations hit the market… long before the creative insight occurs, you’ll find a creative person who not happy with the way thi…

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Steve Martin’s Creativity: The Rebel’s Rebel 14:35

3+ y ago14:35

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Steve Martin is one of my all-time favorite creative people. What makes him so special is that he somehow managed to rebel against a group of comedians who were themselves in a rebellion. He became the most financially successful stand-up comedian of all time, selling out arenas years in advance. He was one of the first rock starts of comedy. In th…

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Why We Struggle To Think Creatively: Over-Inclusive Thinking 9:42

3+ y ago9:42

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The labels in your head are destroying your creativity. The human brain loves it when it can classify everything into nice, neat, little boxes. It loves organizing information. This is what its good at. But this can be a huge problem for creative people who love combining ideas together. When ideas are too organized in the brain, we call it over-in…

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Experiments: Your #1 Tool For Creative Thinking 5:25

3+ y ago5:25

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Experimenting is one of the most important actions you can take as a creative person. What I love most about running an experiment is that it implies that you don’t know what will happen. You might have a guess, but you aren’t sure. Experiments require that we put down our ego. We say “I’m not sure what will happen, but I’m willing to find out.” If…

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Maslow's Hierarchy (For Creatives): How To Be a Happier, Creative Person 7:35

3+ y ago7:35

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is one of the most groundbreaking theories of human psychology. It posits that human needs are hierarchical. We must satisfy the lower needs before we can satisfy the higher needs. There are 5 groups of humans needs. From the lowest to the highest, those needs are: 1- Psychological Needs (food, water, warmth) 2- Safety N…

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Identity: How Protecting Your Ego Kills Your Creativity 19:08

3+ y ago19:08

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How do you view yourself? What identity have you created for yourself? When you tell yourself the story of you, what do you say? What experiences have shaped you? What beliefs do you hold? What values guide you? Your answers to all of these questions make up your identity. They are what psychological researchers would call your “Self-concept.” Your…

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The God-Like Power of Creativity: The Power To Create Or Destroy 6:33

3+ y ago6:33

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As a creative person, you hold the power of the gods. You hold the power to create and destroy. The product of your creativity can send powerful companies to the knees. At its height, Yahoo was worth over 125 billion dollars. A few years later, Yahoo crumbled and lost 96% of its value. The sale of Yahoo is known as the saddest deal in the history o…

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Taking Risks: Unlock Your Creativity By Letting Go 13:40

3+ y ago13:40

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Creative people are risk takers. We invest time, energy, and oftentimes a lot of money pursuing our ideas. Ideas that are not guaranteed to work. Creativity researchers have identified risk taking as one of the most important aspects of the creative personality. Simply put, if you’re not willing to take risks, you’re not going to be a highly origin…

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Imagination: The Most Productive Creative Tool (That You're Not Using Enough) 6:33

3+ y ago6:33

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How often do you sit down and allow your imagination to run wild? Using my imagination is one of my favorite parts of the creative process. When I write comedy, I spend very little time actually touching the keyboard. The vast majority of my time writing is spend playing around with ideas in my imagination. It’s only after I find something interest…

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Unexpectedly Awesome: Court Serendipity To Innovate 9:09

3+ y ago9:09

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You don’t need to take control of every single aspect of your creativity. Make room for something unexpectedly awesome. Oftentimes, as creative people we love making decisions. We tend to be really competitive people, so we love pushing forward. While being competitive can be helpful, it also focuses us a bit too much on the path ahead of us. We ge…

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How Schedules Boost Creativity 7:54

3+ y ago7:54

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It might seem counter-intuitive, but habits and schedules can be incredibly beneficial to creativity. Creative people do the unexpected. They mix things up. They expose themselves to new ideas and incorporate them in fresh and interesting ways. On the other hand, schedule and habits invite the expected and mundane into our lives. The reject fresh a…

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Is "Right-Brain Thinking" Even A Thing? 6:29

3+ y ago6:29

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Say goodbye to the "I'm not a right-brain thinker" fallacy. Today, we’ll look at the differences between the left and right side of the brain and what it means for our creativity, before finishing with an easy to way apply these ideas in your own creative process. The left hemisphere of your brain specializes in analytical thinking. It’s good at br…

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What Makes Goals Motivating? 7:48

3+ y ago7:48

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What makes a goal motivating? Today, we’ll talk about a really simple way of understanding motivation. When you think of your goals, how much do you trust yourself to execute your plan. This is called self-efficacy, and it plays one of the most important roles in motivation. Self-efficacy is the belief that you have the ability to succeed. People w…

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Knowledge & Creativity: That Time Henry Ford's Argued In Court That He Wasn't Stupid 7:02

3+ y ago7:02

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In the summer of 1919, Henry Ford was placed on the witness stand ready to be questioned by a defense attorney for the Chicago Tribune. It was an odd case to be in court, even by today’s standards. Ford was suing the Chicago Tribune for slander. Specifically, for being called an ignorant anarchist. The defense set out to prove that Henry Ford was i…

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What Makes Art "Useful" to People? 6:07

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There are two components to every creative idea: Usefulness and uniqueness. Both can be gray areas for people. What makes something useful is subjective. What’s useful to me isn’t necessarily useful to another person. Artwork is a great example. While I recognize that abstract forms of art are highly valued by some people, I can’t actually see the …

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Feedback: Getting & Using Feedback To Improve Creative Flow 11:20

3+ y ago11:20

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What allows a writer to get into a groove and churn out page after page of their story while the beginner find themselves frustrated with writer’s block and second-guessing themselves? A lot of it comes down to feedback. Feedback is how we figure out if we’re moving closer to our goals. When we’re moving closer to our goals, we feel inspired to kee…

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Amor Fati: Love Your Fate 11:28

3+ y ago11:28

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Amor Fati translates into the "Love of fate.” Whatever happens in life, wherever you find yourself right now or tomorrow, love it. Getting angry at the world is useless. It does nothing to change the world and it makes you miserable in the process. Loving your fate doesn’t change the world either, but its not supposed to. It’s suppose to change you…

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Do The Opposite: Creativity Techniques For Original Thinking 7:22

3+ y ago7:22

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One of the easiest ways to ensure that your idea is unique is by simply doing the opposite of what others are doing. Every idea is made up for smaller ideas. In creativity research, we call these ideas “components.” Think of a component like a Lego piece. You can build whatever you like with them, but you need to have enough pieces, and you need th…

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Constraints: Guiding Your Creativity Towards The Best Solution 7:45

3+ y ago7:45

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Sometimes creative people fall into the originality trap. They focus so much on originality that they lose focus on the other half of the creativity equation: effectiveness. Placing contraints on ourselves as creators is how we guide our creativity towards usefulness. They are a necessary component to great creative thinking. Your creative. Your a …

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Mindfulness: Getting Clarity On Your Creative Projects 7:19

3+ y ago7:19

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Mindfulness has so many implications to our lives, both inside and outside of creativity. Mindfulness is about taking control of how we perceive the world. We override the automatic behaviors that dominate our daily life and, instead, we view the situation from a fresh perspective. You can choose to be mindful. You can choose to hear the criticisms…

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