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The Art of Disciplined Creativity Denise R. Jacobs Web Afternoon / Atlanta October 2011

The Art of Disciplined Creativity

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Ideas and practices for regularly gathering sources of inspiration, eliminating blocks to more easily access creative states, prolong them, and leverage their power to develop and execute great work.

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The Art of Disciplined Creativity

Denise R. JacobsWeb Afternoon / Atlanta

October 2011

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The Art of Social Media

The Artist:@denisejacobs

The Medium:@webafternoon #webafternoon

The Subject:#creativityhabit

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The Artist Still Known as Denise Jacobs

Speaker, Trainer, Author, Pan-Creative

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On Creativity

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What’s the point?

Concepts, ideas, tips to help you instill practices that will encourage you to become even more conversant and better able to collaborate with your creativity.

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We are alchemists

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Always delightful

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Structure, Discipline, Path

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Three Facets of

The Way

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Three Facets of The Way

1. The Path of One

2. It Takes Two

3. The Way of Many

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The Path of One

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The Path of One

1. Eliminate

2. Incorporate

3. Train your brain

4. Gather and document

5. Gamify it

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Eliminate Creativity Killers

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Communication addiction

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Multitasking

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Banish you inner critic

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The evil voices in your head

FEAR (“false evidence appearing real”or “f*ck everything and run”) causes unnecessary inhibitions which obstruct the generation of new ideas on a biochemical and neurological level.

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Impostor syndrome

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Comparisons

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Incorporate Creativity Supporters

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Show up everyday

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Habit fields

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Sprint

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Delegate

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Think with your hands

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Lo-fi time

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Train Your Brain

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Get your alpha on

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Balance your brain

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Get physical

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Be Willing

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Be Mindful

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Gather and Document

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Collect and Curate

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Get it down

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Sketchnotes, mind-mapping, etc.

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Voice

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Tools• Zootool.com

• Imgspark.com

• Scrnshots.com

• Vi.sualize.us

• Emberapp.com

• Pinterest.com

• Evernote

• Diigo

• Delicious

• Flickr

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Gamify it

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Be heroic

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It Takes Two

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It Takes Two

• Externalize

• Invite

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Externalize

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Genius

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Genius? (yes.)

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Your inner Genius

As opposed to “being” a genius, consider that you have a genius – a mystical spirit that accompanies you and inspires and helps you to create fantastic work.

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Genius? (yes!)

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Muses

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Who ‘dat?

The muses were thought to be the true speakers for whom an artist is merely the mouthpiece. Muses inspire people to do their best.

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Memory (Mnene)

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Voice (Aoide)

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Practice/occasion (Melete)

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Ideas

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We are avatars for ideas

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Extend an Invitation

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Make it clear

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Engage in a dialogue

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You’re Doin’ It Wrong

“My f*cking book won’t tell me its name!”

“Well, if you’re going to talk to it like that, it’s not going to tell you anything.”

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Sweet talk your ideas

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Be ready for them to show up

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You’ll get love

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The Way of Many

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The Way of Many

• Collective Ideation

• Learn. Teach. Master.

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Collective Ideation

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Incubate to Generate

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Ideas are a network

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The source of great ideas

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Avoid

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Diverse environments

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Invite others to wonder with you

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In praise of slow…hunches

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Co-work to collaborate

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Plus it

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Reframe #fail

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Share mistakes

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Learn. Teach. Master.

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Leaning? Always!

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Learn from the masters

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Teach what you know

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Reach Mastery

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Discipline is Victory

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What do you get?

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Expression

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What you produce is unique

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Doing you = Awesome

• Singing your song in your voice

• Creating what you want to see/use

• Getting your remix on: gather like an aficionado; repurposing like an artist

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Productivity

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Productivity through little bets

The d.school process:

• observe

• suggest

• tinker

• review

• apply feedback

• reiterate

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Flow? Found.

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The stage is set for Flow

• Cleared space – work area, time, head

• Concept in mind: know what you want to achieve and what it looks like

• Necessary materials on hand

• Distractions eliminated

• Practice in place

• Willingness in place

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Creative Confidence

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Was ist das?

“…the confidence that, when given a difficult problem, we have a methodology that enables us to come up with a solution that nobody has before.”

David Kelley, Ideo

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It does work

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Last outcome

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The end…?

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Resources

delicious.com/denisejacobs/creativityhabit

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Further reading

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/reigniting-your-creative-spark/

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/banishing-your-inner-critic/

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How to find me

DeniseJacobs.com

[email protected]

twitter.com/denisejacobs

slideshare.net/denisejacobs

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Thank you!