Episode 36 - The One Trait You Need To Be Creative

Fuse Chamber

Innnovators and artists alike both want more of this. Here’s how you get it.

• Discipline
• You have to set up time and work
• Many people are creative first thing in the morning. Fine. Set an alarm, get up early, set a 20 minute timer and go
• BUT - as soon as that's done, you take a 5 minute break and then set another 20 minute timer, and then another, and then another.
• The volume of output is what makes the great ideas come, not great ideas themselves.
• your full time job is creating stacks of ideas that might be gold, might be trash, or might be mined for gold
• When you are challenged to come up with a good idea, come up with 50. The pressure of getting 1 idea perfect throttles most people and keeps them from from producing
• always have your tools handy - never have a reason to not be able to capture