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The Dance of the possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativityScott Berkun - scottberkun.comConstrux Executive Summit 2017
"We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects …protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection … of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower“ - Committee of 300, Le Temps, 1887
"this truly tragic street lamp" (Bloy) "this belfry skeleton" (Verlaine) "this mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed" (Coppée)
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1. Creativity is a kind of work 2. Escape false constraints 3. Journals and self-respect
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1. Creativity is a kind of work 2. Escape false constraints 3. Journals and self-respect
•Idea Killers: “We tried that before” •Fear of embarrassment •Criticism of unpolished ideas •Groupthink vs. 1-on-1 pitches
FALSE CONSTRAINTS EXECUTIVES CREATE
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1. Creativity is a kind of work 2. Escape false constraints 3. Journals and self-respect
1. All ideas are made from other ideas 2. Great ideas look weird (at first) 3. We are naturally creative 4. Eliminate False Constraints
LESSON SUMMARY