Kaizen Creativity Podcast

You Cannot Escape How Important You Are #61

Creativity has made the world we live in. Let that sit with you for a moment. Everything around you in the room your in was once an untested idea in someone’s head. Before that, it was a revolutionary idea that seemed crazy. As creative people, we’re an integral part of this process. We choose the industry that we create in and we work to solve problems and help others. Think back to all the…

Why Creative Ideas Are Lopsided

Think of any of the highly creative, innovative products on the market today. Think about Google, the iPhone, Tesla. Think about the most influential artist that’s ever existed. People like Picasso and Elvis Presley. They’re all wildly different, but they all share a common link: They represent ideas that are not well-rounded. When I say “well-rounded” I’m referring to the tendency to cover up…

Where does motivation come from, how can we get more of it, and how can we ensure that we don’t waste it?

Where does motivation come from, how can we get more of it, and how can we ensure that we don’t waste it? Motivation is all about being able to take action. But the question is… what action are we taking? We only want to take more action if that action is aligned with where we want to go. A belief system is a set of beliefs we have about what is right or wrong, what is true or false, and what…

The World’s Most Fascinating Creative Problem: How AI Safety Researchers Are Avoiding a Robot Apocalypse

In the last episode, I introduced you to how AI research sheds new light on our creative process. If you haven’t already listened to it, I recommend checking it out before listening to this episode.  To give you a short recap: For an AI to function, it needs to know A) What options it has available to it and B) a way to score itself. Creative AI’s use what’s called “Adversarial Algorithms” to…

4C Model of Creativity

Today we are going to be talking about the 4C Model of Creativity, which deals with what we call Creative Magnitude.  What I want you to take away from this episode is that you shouldn’t think about creativity as simply just the big ideas that have this massive impact on society. It’s a really limiting way of thinking about creativity.  There is a wide variety of creative ideas, all the way…

How Personal Values Shape Our Creativity

Your personal values shape every aspect of your creativity, from the industry you find yourself in, to the problems you try to solve, the way you try to solve them, and how you try to market them.  Facebook.com/KaizenCreativity (Interact with other listeners) JaredVolle.com/Podcast (Find useful links) JaredVolle.com/Support (Donate or sponsor a show)

3 Components of Amazing Creativity: Why knowledge, skills, and motivation are the cornerstones of creativity

Componential Theory TRANSCRIPT: Today we’re talking about the 3 components of awesome creativity.  So there’s a lot of ways to talk about what makes really creative people so creative. We’ve already talked about the Geneplore Model, which is what’s called a “Stage Model of Creativity.” Stage Models describe creativity as “A leads to B, leads to C, leads to D. So it’s a step-by-step…

3 Ways To Find Creative Insights (Without Struggling For Them)

3 Ways To Find Creative Insights (Episode 52) Summary of Episode 52: 3 Ways To Find Creative Insights 3 Ways to Have Creative BreakthroughsSemi-Automatic ActivityMeditationDreaming TRANSCRIPT: I know a lot of times we get ambitious. We want to complete our goals and we get really motivated to do it… and so we end up struggling to find creative solutions, but that’s not always the best way to…

How To Get Good Feedback On Creative Ideas

Today, we’re going to talk about some useful ways of getting feedback and why it’s so important for our creativity. What’s so cool about feedback is that you’re essentially borrowing somebody else’s value set or belief system so that you can see your creation through the eyes of someone else. In creativity, it’s so difficult to get good quality feedback. Getting an objective perspective on your…

Find Creative Inspiration - How Sensitivity & Problem Discovery Lead to Innovation (And Why My Trashcan Has Lasers!!!)

Creative people are sensitive to problems, but that’s a good thing. Most people are confronted with a problem and they choose to ignore it. Others have smaller problems that they don’t even consciously recognize are problems.  https://anchor.fm/kaizencreativity/embed Creativity thrives when there are problems. They guide our creative behavior. They teach us what we need to do. They show us what…

Marketing Innovation: How To Convince People To Value What They Just Learned Existed

How do you convince people to value your creation when they just learned what it is? Innovations are solutions to problems.  Some solutions are wildly original, like the first Google algorithm or iPhone. These solutions violently shoved the industry in a new direction. Wherever Yahoo was going, wherever the Motorola Razor was going, it no longer…

Do More With Less - What Video Game Design Can Teach Us About Innovation. This topic was inspired by @Thefearalcarrot & @gamemakerstk Youtube channels on video game design. Highly recommend both :)

One of my secret passions is game design. I love watching YouTube videos about how games are made and why game developers made the decisions that they did. The topic for this episode was inspired by 2 YouTube channels that explain video game design really well. One is Adam Millard, who has the Architect of Games YouTube Channel. The other is Mark Brown, who has Game Makers Toolkit YouTube…

The Bizarre Way Frustration Influences Creativity

When we deal with creativity blocks on this show, we’ve generally talked about procrastination because that’s an area where many people struggle. In this episode, I want to talk about another important way we block ourselves: Not being willing to put down the wrong tool. Relying on the wrong thinking strategy to solve a problem is a recipe for frustration. It seems like such an easy fix, yet it’s…

Pull Motivation: How Curiosity Motivates Creativity (Without Leaving Us Drained)

Long before he was the world’s most famous scientist, Einstein use to sit on the bus and imagine what would happen if the bus traveled at the speed of light. His curious nature was responsible for the bizarre thought experiments he loved so much, and his continued curiosity is what motivated him to keep playing with the ideas for long periods of time.  Creative people are incredibly curious…

How To Get Addicted To Creativity: Overcome Procrastination & Enjoy Work

As your creating this week, pay special attention to the parts of the process you love. This is one of the best motivational techniques you can use. There’s no better way to start your creative process then with a burst of positive emotions.  Those positive emotions at the beginning of your workday become addicting. Procrastination is no longer a struggle when you know there’s a pleasurable…

Why You Should Spend More Time Daydreaming To Boost Creativity

Daydreaming is fun. If you’re a creative person, it’s also surprisingly productive. So why don’t we do it more often? The short answer is ego.  https://anchor.fm/kaizencreativity/embed While daydreaming IS productive, it doesn’t FEEL productive. That’s an important distinction when it comes to motivation. The brain gives far more weight to how you subjectively feel about something than to…

How To Motivate Employees To Be Creative

What drives creative people to do what they do and how can we motivate people to be more creative? This is a particularly important question for businesses. While an entrepreneur might start a company because they’re already motivated to innovate, they have far less control over the people they hire.  https://anchor.fm/kaizencreativity/embed There are 2 types of motivation that dominate…