Uncanny Creativity Podcast

Uncanny Creativity Podcast

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Uncanny Creativity Podcast

Art & Design Productivity with Brian E. Young | Baltimore, Maryland

01/20/2017

Escape the Comfort Zone: Uncanny Creativity 41

Making art often means getting out of the comfort zone. Alan Henry of Lifehacker explains the science of breaking out of your comfort zone: Routine and patterns minimize risk. Making something scares us. Creating something inherently feels risky. Who knows if it’ll be good? The comfort zone feels happy with low anxiety and low stress.Continue reading "Escape the Comfort Zone: Uncanny Creativity 41"

25 min
01/13/2017

How to stop multitasking: Quick Tip 6

Try this: Stop Multitasking. Focus on one task at a time. One aspect of one task. Multitasking even hurts well-practiced habits. A 1990's experiment on productivity demonstrated that switching between two tasks slowed participants.

2 min
01/04/2017

Ideas I Stole From Tina Fey: Uncanny Creativity 40

I previously read the book Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon. I'm working on reviewing the followup book "Show Your Work. Inspired by Kleon's discussion of his inspirations, I think the creative ethic of Tina Fey is pretty great.

22 min
10/13/2016

Imagine You’re 7 Years Old: Quick Tip 5

Try this: Imagine you’re a 7 year old. Children playing is filled with curiosity. They haven’t learned the stock responses of adults. Ask yourself what a kid would do in this situation. In one psychological experiment, college volunteers were asked what they’d do if school was cancelled for the day. A second group was givenContinue reading "Imagine You’re 7 Years Old: Quick Tip 5"

1 min
07/29/2016

Make Practice into Fun: Uncanny Creativity 39

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Albert Einstein Make a game of it. A study at MIT Sloan found that games helped participants come up with more ideas. This episode has ideas to make your art practice fun. When I say art, I mean all things creative. Whether you’re creating web design, paintings, or knitting. Since you need toContinue reading "Make Practice into Fun: Uncanny Creativity 39"

16 min
05/20/2016

Tips to Change Your Perspective: Uncanny Creativity 38

Take a new perspective on your creative process. This episode presents some of my favorite quotes from the book Think Like A Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. How can we apply these ideas to imagination and creation? The book written by the team behind the Freakonomics book and podcast. Here’s some favorite quotes from the book andContinue reading "Tips to Change Your Perspective: Uncanny Creativity 38"

20 min
05/13/2016

Stop Doing Something: Quick Tip 4

Try this: Stop doing something How do we make time for art? In his book Getting Things Done, David Allen recommends we ask ourselves if we really have to be doing a task. Consider delegating a task. Maybe you hire a maid every month to cut back on cleaning. Put tasks on your someday/maybe list. OneContinue reading "Stop Doing Something: Quick Tip 4"

1 min
05/06/2016

Creative Optimism: Uncanny Creativity 37

Optimism helps us be more creative. We can learn to explain our lives in positive ways. We can definitely use his concepts to have a better creative process. Let’s talk about editing our Mental First Draft! What is an explanatory style? Optimism and pessimism are the stories we tell ourselves. We tell ourselves stories about failure, loss, and problems. As discussed inContinue reading "Creative Optimism: Uncanny Creativity 37"

20 min
04/29/2016

Walk to Boost Your Creative Thinking: Quick Tip 3

Walking boosts creativity in real time and shortly after. Following being seated, participants scored higher on creativity tests. Walking outside had the most impact. At the same time, a treadmill still increased creativity. The paper titled “Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking” was published in The Journal ofContinue reading "Walk to Boost Your Creative Thinking: Quick Tip 3"

1 min
04/22/2016

How to be wrong: Uncanny Creativity 36

What we think will happen is not always what happens. Part of being an artist is accepting that being wrong is okay. It’s part of the fun of our work! The feeling of being wrong is a pleasant surprise. We turn mistakes into art. “To live a creative life we must first lose the fearContinue reading "How to be wrong: Uncanny Creativity 36"

17 min

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Art & Design Productivity with Brian E. Young | Baltimore, Maryland

Creator

Uncanny Creativity Podcast
Years Active

2015 - 2017
Episodes

10
Rating

Clean
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Uncanny Creativity Podcast