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▪ Solicit Criticism
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Describe a recent plan.
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How to Create Your Creative Process - by Erik van Mechelen
- 1. How to Create Your Creative Process
- 2. 2 When you enter the creative process, who are you? Are you choosing the right doors? Do you have the right creative process? A portal to creativity
- 3. Table Stakes
- 5. Types of Distractions ▪ People ▪ Emotional States ▪ Physical States (discomfort/pain/energy) ▪ Fake Work ▪ Digital Notifications ▪ Curiosity in General List your top distractions. Can you cut one or two of them right now? 5
- 6. Stop Doing Fake Work
- 7. Types of Fake Work ▪ Doing (too much) research ▪ Looking for inspiration ▪ Being uncomfortable with boredom ▪ Avoiding the struggle List an example of your fake work. Why did you resort to it? 7
- 8. Ask for Help
- 9. Where to Ask for Help ▪ Hire Coach ▪ Accountability Buddy ▪ Build Support Group ▪ Forums ▪ In-Real-Life community ▪ Workshop / courses List your top distractions. Can you cut one or two of them right now? 9
- 10. Plan
- 11. How to Plan ▪ Define a Goal ▪ Break Objective into Smaller Pieces ▪ Do First Part, how, when, quality [params] ▪ Do Next Part ▪ … ▪ Solicit Criticism ▪ Assess Plan / Assess Goal Describe a recent plan. 11
- 12. Big 5!Let’s discover our personality traits. Because your process should match your personality; and your personality, the process. 12
- 13. 13AGREEABLENESS: Low I have typical (average) levels of Compassion, but low levels of Politeness. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: Typical or Average I’m fairly Industrious and not so Orderly. EXTRAVERSION: Moderately High With both mid-to-high levels of Assertiveness and Enthusiasm, I land moderately high for Extraversion. NEUROTICISM: Moderately High My Withdrawal is typical, while my Volatility is high. OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE: Exceptionally High For both Intellect and Openness. Often, I’m easily irritable, reacting strongly to disappointment, frustration, pain and the threat of social isolation.
- 14. Take a moment to rank yourself 1-10 for each of the 10 traits. Then rank your partner. 14
- 16. How to Solicit Criticism ▪ Be Confident ▪ Be Humble ▪ Criticism is Right, BUT… ▪ YOU decide how to fix Think about criticism you solicited. How did it feel? Was it useful? What happened next? Did you ask again? 16
- 17. Automate What Can Be Automated
- 18. How to Automate 18 ▪ Decide on what will be automated ▪ Understand / Accept Tradeoffs ▪ Use Tools ▪ Tools do not have to be digital What can you automate? Once decided; ask ‘How will I automate?
- 20. How to Engage Your Mentors 20 ▪ Do I have the right mentors? ▪ Ways to engage ▪ Fitting engagement into process ▪ How to find new mentors How do you engage your mentors? Can you improve this engagement? How?
- 21. Exercise
- 22. How to Exercise 22 ▪ Education; Take it slow at first ▪ Social influence / pressure ▪ Routine ▪ Strength, Balance, Flexibility, Cardio ▪ We are made to move ▪ Nutrition How do you exercise? Where can you fit into your daily routine?
- 23. Get More Sleep
- 24. How to Get Good Sleep 24 ▪ We might all be sleep-deprived ▪ Amount of sleep; Quality of sleep ▪ Caffeine ▪ Dreams ▪ What you think about before sleep How much do you sleep, routinely? Can you make adjustments to improve quantity and quality?
- 25. Fit your personality to your process; your process to your personality Understand how lights turn on for you. Understand where they turn off. Give them space to turn on more often, and see your potential shine through. 25
- 26. ty! 26 Share this presentation with someone who could improve their creative process... https://bit.ly/2RFqjOo Thank you -Erik van Mechelen @5amreading
Editor's Notes
- #12: DOES YOUR PROCESS ALLOW ITSELF TO BE UPENDED, TO TRANSFORM?
- #14: (Often, I’m easily irritable, reacting strongly to disappointment, frustration, pain and the threat of social isolation.) (Growing up, I usually scored evenly between Introversion / Extroversion on Myer’s Briggs personality tests.)
- #17: I GOT FEEDBACK FROM 50 BETA READERS...WHOA! I HAVE MORE WORK TO DO! Start Creative Work Watch what happens See how it feels Judge your progress Share your work Feel good, bad, indifferent Back to top You audience will listen to you or read the content, but won’t do both.
- #25: USE PRE-SLEEP AS CREATIVE SANDBOX