LifeHabits 20 - Fostering Creativity
Sep 5th, 2008 by lifehabits
Everyone wants to be more creative but few know how to go about it. After reviewing some insightful and thought-provoking famous quotes on the topic, Karel details 10 ideas for fostering creativity. The approaches are applicable to work situations involving products, services, and processes but equally to your personal and home life. At the end of the episode, Karel also asks for input on a suggestion for improving the podcast series by providing short 5-8 minute daily refresher podcast episodes.
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Hi Karel,
Just found this series recently and enjoyed it. I was going to ask for the top 10 list, but I am glad you have added them to the audio file “meta-data”. It would be nice to add the quotes you start off each podcast to that list as well.
On this creativity topic, I found the recent HBR article on how Pixar foster collective creativity very interesting:
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&articleID=R0809D&ml_issueid=BR0809&ml_subscriber=true&pageNumber=1&_requestid=49679
cheers,
Jin
Hi Jin,
Thanks so much for the feedback and for the HBR article. Just after I recorded this episode, I listened to the Harvard Business IdeaCast on this topic. If you haven’t already, I’d suggest subscribing to the IdeaCast. I would highly recommend it.
I’m glad you enjoy the podcast and thanks again for leaving a comment here.
Karel
Hi again Karel,
Another great podcast. Thanks!
I just wanted to add one personal characteristic that many great designers share without which some of the 10 steps you talked about (such as feedback, group brainstorming and being curious) are difficult to carry out successfully. That characteristic is the ability to drop one’s ego. Without this ability, one is not open to feedback, tends toward narrow thinking and is unwilling to accept others’ ideas or criticism of one’s own ideas.
Thanks again, Scott
Hi Scott,
You make an excellent point that dropping one’s ego is critical to many of the items on the list of 10 that I provided. That’s actually true for many other things in life too that I talk about in this podcast series. If you’re not open to new ideas and think you already know everything that this is to know, for example, then you’re not going to be able to learn anything new from any other source. Great point.
Thanks for your insightful comment, Scott.
Karel