There's so much discussion about how to get started, how to overcome creative block, and how to find your motivation, but you know what's rarely discussed? That's right - how to finish when things get hard. Today's guest Jon Acuff has written the book on the topic, and he's here today to discuss his creative process, and some core principles for finishing challenging long-arc goals in your life and work.
There are two walls that creatives hit when engaged in making something meaningful. The first wall, and the most obvious one, occurs before or very early in the process. It’s what causes us to shrink back from engagement and to instead seek something – ANYTHING – that will immediately relieve our need to feel productive. It’s much easier to check e-mail, make a call or re-shuffle the papers on our desk than it is to bare our soul to the blank page, the blinking cursor, or the empty art board. However, the second wall can be the one that really keeps you from producing your best work. On this episode, we share some strategies for surmounting it and pushing through to your best work.
Where do great ideas come from? More importantly, how do you put them out into the world where they can actually impact people and change the world? Today's guest, Scott Berkun, has spent many years studying these topics, and he's just released a (great) new book called The Dance Of The Possible. On today's episode, we discuss the nature of creativity, how to get unstuck, and how to embrace the dance that is the creative process.
Dr. Keith Sawyer shares insights from his new book Zig Zag: The Surprising Path To Greater Creativity, and his advice for how to grow your creative capacity.
Are you trying to squeeze too much creativity out of too few raw materials? You may be creatively inverted.
A conversation about making great things and discovering your voice.
Gaining creative traction is often about asking the right questions.
The pursuit of mastery of your craft is a path to growth and discovery.
Sometimes our [sub-conscious, unseen] expectations can impose artificial limits on our creative process. In this podcast we're looking at how we need to occasionally reset our expectations of ourselves and our understanding of others' expectations of us in order to...