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Hacking the Creative Brain
Denise Jacobs discusses strategies for enhancing creativity by overcoming mental barriers and fostering a conducive environment for idea generation, emphasizing the importance of reframing failures, adjusting mental states, and practicing discipline. She outlines steps to hack creativity, such as eliminating distractions and collaborating with others to stimulate innovation. The document also includes personal insights, resources, and further reading recommendations to cultivate creative confidence.
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Hacking the Creative Brain
- 1. Hacking the creativeBrain Working Better to Create More Denise R. Jacobs Future. Innovation. Technology. Creativity. Amsterdam, Netherlands 18 February 2013
- 2. Tweeting tall tales I am: @denisejacobs We’reat: #FITCAms @fitc I’m talking about how to: #hackcreativity
- 3. I used tohave long hair
- 4. I’m part Vulcan.Srsly! Photo: Stefan Nitzsche
- 5. I Almost adopteda chicken
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- 23. “Creativity is newnessproduced.” ★ “Creativity is the process of developing original ideas that have value.” - Sir Ken Robinson, Out of Our Minds
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- 25. Even though itfeels like it… “Creativity is magical, but is not magic.” - Charles Limb, “Your Brain on Improvisation” TED talk
- 26. Let’s get ourhack on
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- 33. The evil voicesin your head
- 34. Fear (“false evidence appearingreal” or “f*ck everything and run”) causes unnecessary inhibitions which obstruct the generation of new ideas on a biochemical and neurological level.
- 35. Banish you innercritic
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- 38. “An essential aspectof creativity is not being afraid to fail.” - Dr. Edwin Land “Being right keeps us in place. Being wrong forces us to explore.” – Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
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- 60. Be Mindful –Do one thing at a time
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- 70. Tools Zootool.com Evernote Gimmebar.com Diigo Pinterest.com Delicious Imgspark.com Flickr Scrnshots.com Trello Vi.sualize.us Emberapp.com
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- 72. Do it withothers
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- 74. Ideas are anetwork
- 75. The source ofgreat ideas
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- 89. The d.school process • observe • suggest • tinker • review • apply feedback • reiterate
- 90. Get into theflow
- 91. All of thepieces in place… • Cleared space – work area, time, head • Concept in mind: know what you want to achieve and what it looks like • Necessary materials on hand • Distractions eliminated • Practice in place • Willingness in place
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- 98. “Whatchoo talkin‟ „bout,Willis?” “…the confidence that, when given a difficult problem, we have a methodology that enables us to come up with a solution that nobody has before.” - David Kelley, Ideo
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- 106. Articles for furtherreading (mine) netmagazine.com/features/ four-secrets-enhancing- creative-productivity alistapart.com/articles/ reigniting-your-creative-spark/ alistapart.com/articles/ banishing-your-inner-critic/
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- 108. Shameless Self-Promotion #2 Smashing Books #3 & #3 1/3 My chapter: “Storytelling in Webdesign” SmashingBook.com
- 109. Shameless Self-Promotion #1 The CSS Detective Guide CSSDetectiveGuide.com twitter.com/cssdetective
- 110. Shameless Self-Promotion #3 InterAct With Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design InterActWithWebStandards.com twitter.com/waspinteract
- 111. How to findme DeniseJacobs.com denise@denisejacobs.com twitter.com/denisejacobs slideshare.net/denisejacobs
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