Most creators love doing creative things, but many of us hate the mental baggage that comes along with creativity… including figuring what it actually is, and how to actually do new, original things, which is HARD.
Today Jeff talks about what creativity is and some surprising mental shifts to help you get rid of the mental baggage and get more creativity in your content and in your life.
RESOURCES
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, by Amanda Palmer https://amzn.to/2ZStSaw
Amanda Palmer via The Marginalian, formerly Brain Pickings by Maria Popova https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/28/amanda-palmer-on-creativity-online
Story Greenlight with Jeff Bartsch, Ep 003 – What is a Greenlight, and Why it Matters
https://www.storygreenlight.com/podcast
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein https://amzn.to/3wHf76n
SHOW NOTES
1:09 The need for creativity
1:46 Jeff’s rant against dictionaries
3:04 Wikipedia and why it’s so hard to define creativity
6:29 Blank pages and the difficulty of being original
7:38 Creativity is relative
7:59 Case study: how email went from novel to digital junk mail
11:23 Labeling something “new” or “original” is not up to us
11:54 How to appear more creative by changing your audience
13:50 On Amanda Palmer and her journey
14:25 The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, by Amanda Palmer https://amzn.to/2ZStSaw
16:05 Amanda Palmer’s more practical definition of creativity
17:50 Amanda Palmer on why it’s so important to share our creativity
18:58 Steve Jobs on mental connections driving creativity
20:01 What is a Greenlight – See Story Greenlight Episode 003 for more discussion on this
20:28 Why sharing our creativity and mental connections can be terrifying, but so important to create human connections with your audience
22:42 Nihilist, existential, and faith-based reasoning for creativity
23:53 How to be more creative: expand your inputs
24:08 Steve Jobs on the importance of broader creative inputs
25:01 Going beyond YouTube videos about making videos… your extra layers of knowledge and life experience matter
26:10 How to be more creative: don’t worry whether it’s already been done, because nobody makes the same connections of dots in the same way that you do
26:45 How to be more creative: embrace being a generalist, not just a specialist
27:43 Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein https://amzn.to/3wHf76n
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