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Don’t be paralyzed by fear of the unknown! Do what you’re qualified to do, and stop doing the things that only waste your focus, time and energy.

Todd Henry

Todd Henry

Todd is the founder of Accidental Creative, the author of The Accidental Creative: How To Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice, and an in-demand speaker and consultant .
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  • http://twitter.com/ochoices Outsourcing Choices

    One of your best podcasts.  This definitely should be the basis for your next book.

    • http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry

      Fortunately, it is a core element of the next book. :)

      • Cody

        the next book?  oh yeah!

  • Dave

    There are times when certain things happen at the exact perfect moment in your life.  This podcast was perfect timing for what I needed… I listened to it 3 times.  Thank you.

    • http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry

      Fantastic! Glad it was helpful, Dave.

  • http://www.davidpmariano.com/ Dave Mariano

    I agree this is one of your best. Well, it’s most relevant to me right now anyway since I’m 6-9 months in to my entrepreneurial journey. It’s such a hard lesson to learn at first, but it becomes exciting once you get comfortable with it. It gets exciting to try new things and to view your work as a laboratory, not a life-death or win-lose situation. I read it first in Michael Port’s Think Big Manifesto (although I know other’s have written about it) when he talked about getting comfortable with discomfort. Thanks, Todd.

  • http://idea4ort.com/ Idea4ort

    Dear Todd Henry:

     

    I hesitated, at first, to listen to
    your podcast because I supposed advice on creativity would be like an ethics
    seminar.  You don’t gain ethics
    from a lecture, and you don’t gain creativity from one either (again, this is
    what I thought). Then, I listed to
    your most recent podcast, then the next, then the next, and finally I’d heard
    every last one.  My false
    assumption that a podcast cannot help creativity is somewhat comparable to what
    you call “false causality” in your blog. 
    I loved this concept that we are missing the possibilities out there by
    making false assumptions about what is feasible to accomplish.  Now, I of course did not memorize the
    substance of all the podcasts, but some things stand out in my mind so
    much. 

    First, the Flinch interview put a
    useful label on that moment when I am watching the “Bachelor” (hours of
    superficial conversation, over-hyped drama, commercials, all only to reach an
    anticlimactic ending that is usually predictable, all a total waste of time),
    knowing my dream is literally waiting for my able execution in the other
    room.  The Flinch explains this
    concept and labels it, “the Flinch”.This is the type of creative help I never would have come up with on my own.

    Another great moment I remember
    after listening to all of your podcasts in the last few days is you stating something
    along the lines that simple ideas are good, and that you should allow yourself
    to publish them.  Do not over
    complicate your work, you advised. This is dead on advice for me.  The tendency to want to be that
    profound entity of creativity, that genius that stands alone, and is
    untouchable by the normal others, that tendency is potent.  And trust me, I am aware that I am not
    a genius, or a creative prodigy—maybe I just want to seem that way so people
    won’t realize I’m so normalJ  Anyway, great advice.

     I could tell that you are a writer when you used colorful
    wording like that we, your audience, should engage in “humble curiosity”.

    Of all the podcasts I enjoyed, one
    of my very favorite was Susan Cain’s talk on introverts.  I quite literally started that podcast
    believing myself to be an awkward extrovert without enough friends and deeply
    ashamed of my lacking social energy. 
    I left the podcast knowing without a doubt that I, Megan, am an
    introvert and proud to be one.  It
    was amazingly helpful and I think it will encourage loads of creative
    introverted people to embrace themselves and thus enable greater
    accomplishment.

                The
    Unstuck podcast left me remembering to go to unusual spaces, not to just work
    in my office.  This podcast advised
    us to find a way to make a fool of ourselves and that we the audience can make
    inspiration actually happen.

                Of
    all poetic lines you leave throughout your podcast, I most adored this one and
    wrote it down: “[creativity is the] perpetual assault on the beachhead of
    apathy” (wow there is some good writing in an age of “wut up dawg”
    texting).  At one point you also
    said: “The love of comfort is frequently the enemy of greatness”.  And we don’t have to pay for this
    stuff?

                Needless
    to say, THANK YOU for your awesome content.  I started a dream of my own in the past month which is
    idea4ort.com, and so I have added you as a link to my newly launched platform. Please
    note, Todd Henry, your work is a big daily inspiration for my idea4ort.

     

    Finest Regards,

     

    Megan Cook

    Idea4ort Founder
     

    • http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry

      Megan,

      Wow. I’m not sure how to respond. If I could write a note of encouragement to myself, it would look a lot like this comment. I’m deeply grateful for your kind words, and I’m so glad that the podcast has been of benefit to you. 

      Congrats on your new project!

    • travisneilson

      Well said megan! I am totally resonating with all of the things you listed here, Todd really is a gift giver.

  • Natalie

    This is brilliant- exactly what I needed to hear today! So grateful for your work and words.

    • http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry

      Thanks, Natalie.

  • Gwendolyn Kelly

    That was useful and inspirational. Thank you

    • http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry

      Thanks! Glad it was helpful.

  • Julie Gattenio

    I liked that this podcast was inspirational in a new way. I feel like a lot of inspirational podcasts kinda say the same thing, or have a message that I’ve already heard a dozen times or more. Listening to this was a very different experience; I feel like I actually learned something new! I’m a new fan of the podcast, and I look forward to hearing more. :)

    • http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry

      Thank you, Julie! Glad you enjoyed the podcast and found it practical and helpful. That’s what we try to do – offer up actionable thoughts. Glad it resonated.