Sometimes making choices in our career paths is difficult. Wouldn't it be helpful to have guidelines to help us make decisions that open up your options rather than shut them down? Discover how choosing creativity, a growth mindset, finding your Flow, and being a Maker puts you on the path of having infinite possibilities in your career, creating a clear path to a future where you can not only be awesome, but also do meaningful work.

1. Possibilities
Infinite
Denise R. Jacobs
EclipseCon | San Francisco, CA
10 March 2015

2. @denisejacobs

3. @EclipseCon #EclipseCon
#infinitepossible

4. The slides are here:
creativedo.se/EclipseCon-ip

5. Photo by Derek Kearney
From developer à Creativity Evangelist

6. à Founder + Chief Creativity Evangelist
http://TheCreativeDose.com/

7. Part of our goal at EclipseCon
https://prestonblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/2502528498_98fb0baae9_o.jpg

8. 1,1,2,3…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bdunnette/143567420

9. It’s the new Black
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designandtechnologydepartment/4771136128/

10. Time Magazine Creativity Poll, 2013
http://business.time.com/2013/04/26/the-time-creativity-poll/

11. IBM CEO Study, 2010
https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31670.wss

12. Survey of 684 Developers
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/8812567121

13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/barretthall/3036598475/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/3135103537/
Who here is creative?

14. This is Water.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/seotaro/2101165162

15. Binary option?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/davecobb/10660903665

16. Possible selves

17. It starts here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gdvan/14910785913

18. All about choices

19. The paradox of choice
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x1brett/2279939232/

20. CHOOSE
https://www.flickr.com/photos/buttersponge/4955768144

21. Non-Creative or Creative?

22. http://www.flickr.com/photos/barretthall/3036598475/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/3135103537/
Who here is creative?

23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kosmotesto/3794445313/
“Creativity is all about making connections
and seeing patterns.”
Bruce Nussbaum, Creative Intelligence

24. Child, please.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahalie/276780530/

25. My response:

26. In Tibetan, creative = natural
https://www.flickr.com/photos/norte_it/2340805781

27. Creativity ≠ Trying to be Creative
http://www.theprofessionalcreative.com/take-the-first-step-to-become-creative/

28. Trying ≠ Practicing

29. http://www.wallpaper4me.com/images/wallpapers/do_or_do_not_w1.jpeg
“Try not.
Do, or do not.
There is no try.”
Yoda

30. “If I try to be creative, rather than just
accepting that I am creative, I fail.”
Andrew J. Epstein

31. What’s your creative frequency?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sine_waves_different_frequencies.svg

32. Tune in
https://www.flickr.com/photos/flavijus/566174947

33. How often do you show up to your creativity?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/367425390

34. Ideas a day
https://www.flickr.com/photos/evaekeblad/15294401442

35. “Deciding for creativity does not
guarantee that creativity will emerge,
but without the decision, it certainly
will not.”
Robert Sternberg

36. Decide upon Creativity.
Choose it.
Then, amplify your creative
frequency.

37. Fixed or Growth Mindset?

38. Fixed mindset
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bethscupham/7328405210

39. Perfectionism
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diepuppenstubensammlerin/7648792510/

40. Growth Mindset

41. Embrace and enjoy learning
http://davidseddl511.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/6a00d83451b44369e200e54f480b498834-800wi.jpg

42. How do you change from fixed to growth?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/f-oxymoron/5005673112/

43. 1) Listen to your Fixed Mindset voice
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theory/3193684632/

44. 2) Recognize that you have a choice
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjsmithphotography/6804513809

45. 3) Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice

46. 4) Take growth mindset action

47. Growth mindset actions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/onegiantleap/4124211492/

48. http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/959867550/ &http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/959864706/
Adopt a beginner’s mind

49. Release the Tyranny of the Expert
https://www.flickr.com/photos/64540855@N07/5878418781

50. Rediscover the familiar
https://www.flickr.com/photos/77654185@N07/8428225936

51. Re-learn something from a friend
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ribbitvoice/2339351666

52. Learn something entirely new
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13723940@N04/2648317554/

53. Photo: Denise Jacobs
Eating my own dogfood: Improv class!

54. Learning from experience is key

55. Approach everything with
openness and eagerness.
Expand your knowledge and
yourself.

56. Blocked or in Flow?

57. Creative blocks?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99301367@N00/8497106802/

58. Internal fears
Photo: Denise Jacobs

59. Creative Flow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7730492@N03/4958540694/

60. Is @ the Sweet Spot

61. Enjoy + Good at + Feeling Empowered
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/3310336516/

62. = Empowered Play
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anieto2k/8216666102/

63. Your brain on Flow
https://www.flickr.com/photos/arselectronica/13994747444

64. Flow banishes the inner critic

65. How do you reach Flow?

66. Uninterrupted, focused time

67. (Instill the Headphones Rule)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/9824922293

68. Helps create space for ideas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/creativedc/2939649520

69. Risk/Challenge
http://www.flickr.com/photos/librarianavengers/2495352933/

70. Immediate feedback
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anieto2k/8124124586/

71. Find your Flow to dispel
fears and experience
continuous creative growth.

72. Taker or Maker?

73. …Has little regard for
their potential to
shape the future or
ability to take action
on issues that truly
motivate them.
A Taker…

74. …A maker’s work is
characterized by morality,
creativity, craftsmanship,
and purposed problem
solving. They view their
work through the lens of
service.
A Maker…

75. “….Makers choose their work based on impact
and happiness.”
Jason Cavnar, "Why developers should start choosing
conscience over profit"
http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/18/developers-choosing-conscience-over-profit/

76. Become a passionate problem-solver
http://www.flickr.com/photos/argonne/4435608143/

77. Make “Bug” Lists

78. Cultivate a healthy disregard for the impossible

79. Be clear on your “Why”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zlz212/198759134/

80. Infuse meaning
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/5932362950

81. Who are you helping?
http://www.codefevermiami.com/

82. Choose bigger, more creative problems to solve

83. Cultivate a culture of creativity around you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters,_Inc.

84. Like folks at Pixar

85. Make things that matter –
to both you and others.

86. PROGRESS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/harryharris/381154280/

87. What do you get?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlaughland/3475448568/

88. Life is complex and so are decisions

89. Two tracks

90. Guidelines; stars to navigate by
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anieto2k/9255191990/

91. “Clarity brings about purpose,
purpose brings about action,
action brings about change.”
Joel Yeo

92. Mobilize a dormant creative confidence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/badastronomy/4179773749/

93. While we can’t predict the future
http://fusible.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/crystal-ball.jpg

94. Because of the unknown
http://hub.salford.ac.uk/energymonitoring/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/01/known-knowns1.jpg

95. “We are the creators of the future.”
Umair Haque, “How to Have a Year That Matters”

96. Another way of putting it is

97. All about
http://www.cdmdirect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Choices.jpg

98. The universe is expanding, and so are we
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rammorrison/2718543921

99. All starts with the first step

100. My vote? Choose
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designandtechnologydepartment/4771136128/

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102. 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

103. Get the slides!
creativedo.se/EclipseCon-ip

104. And finally…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theredproject/3302110152/