Episode 36 - The One Trait You Need To Be Creative

Fuse Chamber

March 26, 2018

Innnovators and artists alike both want more of this. Here’s how you get it.

Discipline
You have to set up time and work
Many people are creative first thing in the morning. Fine. Set an alarm, get up early, set a 20 minute timer and go
BUT - as soon as that's done, you take a 5 minute break and then set another 20 minute timer, and then another, and then another.
The volume of output is what makes the great ideas come, not great ideas themselves.
your full time job is creating stacks of ideas that might be gold, might be trash, or might be mined for gold
When you are challenged to come up with a good idea, come up with 50. The pressure of getting 1 idea perfect throttles most people and keeps them from from producing
always have your tools handy - never have a reason to not be able to capture

Toronto, ON

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