There's a movement brewing built upon leveraging the transformative power of creativity to help us work and create better so that we can produce work infused with meaning. Discover how by instilling tiny habits to cultivate your creative spark, and finally, fomenting creative collaboration based on the tenets of improv and open spaces, you can take the spark of Creativity (R)Evolution and use it as the impetus to push you, your teams, and your companies to create Betterness.
52. Are you a terrorist to yourself?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/koomatuomio/4182554398/
53. “Obsessing about preventing bad things
from happening also prevents good things
from happening, or sometimes prevents
anything from happening at all.”
Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants
54. You are the gateway
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55. It’s all about you being “self-ful”
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58. Love what you do. Do what you love.
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59. “The only way to be truly satisfied is to
do what you believe is great work. The
only way to do great work is to love
what you do.”
Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement speech
60. By nurturing your own spark
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61. You’ll begin to open up
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65. “One of the best ways to make yourself
happy is to make other people happy. One of
the best ways to make other people happy
is to be happy yourself.”
Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
76. Think of several topics you are a bad-ass in.
Write up 1-2 talk descriptions based on your
interests and expertise.
Share them with your partner in one month.
Homework: Write a talk description
77. Think of 1-2 tiny habits you will do to nurture
the sparks ignited at this conference.
Homework: Tiny Habits to Nurture the Spark
84. Each happy friend increased an
individual's probability of being
happy by 9 percent.
Even perfect strangers three degrees of
separation away—friends of friends of friends—
exerted a significant uplifting influence
Unhappy people at the center of
the network are more likely than
those at the periphery to become
happy in the future.
Happiness is contagious
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-10/ff_christakis?currentPage=all
85. Your change will spread beyond you
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles19/1330505/projects/5455539/30cbf8c45952cdcf360ef545b1dcaba9.jpg
89. “Creativity is social….Instead (of
brainstorming) you need ‘magic circles,’
small teams of people who trust each other,
are familiar with each other, and play
together.”
Bruce Nussbaum, Creativity Intelligence
116. “Betterness can't happen if you're spending
your life churning out toxic junk. It can only
happen when more meaningful work is
done.”
Umair Haque, Betterness: Economics for Humans
117. Bigger than just yourself
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118. It’s about You + Others
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119. Eudaimonia = Human flourishing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohman/174718774/
120. “Happiness is not just a mood – it’s a work
ethic…..Happiness is actually the precursor
to success.”
Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive
Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
121. At the close of CREATE Festival, with you
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122. “We don’t have to invent anything; it’s
already all around us.”
Josh Clarke, “The Web Gets Real”
133. THE CREATIVE DOSE
A Creativity + Innovation Collective
Work Better. Create More. Create Betterness.
Creative Thinking & Problem-solving
Applying an Innovation Mindset
Creative Collaboration
Team Communication & Cohesion
TheCreativeDose.com
@thecreativedose
134. My upcoming book!
Banish Your Inner
Critic
DeniseJacobs.com/InnerCritic
26 Effective Techniques for
Unleashing Productive
Creativity
135. DeniseJacobs.com
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