Get tips that can help you nurture your spontaneous impulses and leverage your innate creativity in all areas of your life.
Overview
Syllabus
Ben Long: Creativity Is a Skill
- What is creativity?
- What is an impulse?
- The start of an idea
- Spontaneity
- Impulse roadblock
- Tying up your rational self
- Lost in the noise
- Nothing to fear but...
- A taxonomy of creative fears
- Antidotes to creative fears
- Creativity and self-confidence
- Creativity as a practice
- The creative cycle
- Connection through meditation
- Journaling for self-reflection
- Trust the process
- Multitasking vs. monotasking
- The joy of letting go
- Engagement through ritual
- Natural curiosity
- Bring back boredom
- Don't think too much
- Connect to your senses
- Pure perception
- There's no one right creative process
- Problem-solve with relevance and novelty
- Restriction in the creative process
- Remove implied restrictions
- Document to promote novelty
- Divergent vs. convergent thinking
- Others' opinions in the creative process
- Start from scratch
- Hyperfocus
- Everyday inspiration
- Unexpected associations
- Novelty is worth the effort!
- Creativity is our natural state
- Tap into your imagination
- Relax your brain
- Our creative brains are always active
- Put your relaxed brain to work
- Remove distractions
- Silence your inner critic
- Laugh yourself creative
- Get your creative brain moving
- Embody creativity
- Incubate ideas by immersion
- Experiment yourself creative
- Set the stage for flow
- Intend inspiration
- See with new eyes
- Engage in a dialogue
- Be bad on purpose
- Expand your inspiration input
- Actively embrace boredom
- How do I start?
- Inspiration is a child
- Evolving your process
- Stop making sense
- The brain likes to build
- When you're out of gas, you're out of gas
- Creator versus editor
- Clarity is everything
- How to know when you are done
- The rules of sharing your work
- Do it all again
- What is creative cross-training?
- A notebook and pens
- Cameras teach art
- Taking photos vs. making photos
- Brainstorm yourself
- Learning aesthetics
- Bite-sized writing projects
- Amalgamate: Now!
- How vital is vitality?
- Great movies for creative inspiration
- Master the mini movie
- Be a shriner
- Show it off
- Introducing creativity into your daily life
- Everyday creativity begins with what you wear
- The details are in the accessories
- Culinary creativity
- Creating with table-setting ambiance
- Display creativity in your home decor
- Add creative touches with wall art
- Life enrichment through homemaking
- Creativity in the garden
- Creativity with plants and flowers
- Finding creativity with writing
- Enrich your life with music
- Find creativity with photography
- Find creativity with crafts and hobbies
- Bring creativity into planning a celebration
- Creativity with thoughtful gift-giving
- Bring your creative self into relationships
- Plan travel with creativity
- Nurture creativity with movement
- Add creative spirit to your spiritual practice
- Until something is created, you are not creative
- Create new brain patterns to create new ideas
- Get more dots to connect
- Feed the brain, then give it time to digest
- Think inside the box
- Change the process
- Create by subtracting
- Do things for the first time
- They're just ideas; don't marry them
- Meditation to help creativity
- Stop thinking and start doing
- Get out of your own way and into flow
- Be consistent
- Fitting in is overrated
Taught by
Julian Velard, Stefan Mumaw, Amy Wynne, Jim Krause, Ben Long, Tracey Clark and Denise Jacobs
