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Searching for results.Participating with it that we can make better more creative work. Is that I don't know that's a theory. You've got the research. Does that line up at all? >> To me I think of it as and I think a lot of creatives would…
We see a lot of folks who turn to something physical. Jonathan Hefler, who's a typographer, he's built this elaborate woodworking shop. We've seen people turn to knitting and other things. What's the value in a creative…
That has to be accomplished in a short time but if it's unrelenting you feel like you're on a treadmill and that is exhausting but there's also the flip side where you could have low constraints and high creativity when…
It to like is it as good as I thought it was and behind that is I'm making this thing that I'm excited about and it's so exciting because it's an opportunity for me to share with other people and connect and that is…
There's something existential there. You're saying, "Hey, here's my take on the world. Here's my perspective, my view, what it feels like to be me. I'm going to invite you in. I'm going to allow it to say something…
Designers are really good at getting into that creative state, awesome brainstorm where everybody's firing on all cylinders and everybody seems to anticipate what everybody else is saying. You know, working deeply…
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Are there some like common themes that have emerged over these decades of your research about the creative process? Absolutely, and I think it all goes back to improvisation. That's what I found the most fascinating is…
As a creativity researcher, I'm actually not impressed with Gen AI. And the reason is because Gen AI does not create the same way people create. I've been talking about this iterative process. I've been talking about a…
And you're not positive that it's right you also have to remember that sometimes the wrong answer is the right answer I find that out in posts all the time I'll have an actor do a take and I'll say well that's not right…
What we saw when we interviewed people in their 50s. These were people who had sustained their creativity. A lot of the stories they told were about having multiple ideas, multiple projects. Some of them worked in…
A direction for a client and it really is um I think a world where we're we're going to start to see this convergence of um not just curation but creation and they're going to start to come together in a world where…
Marvel people as they came into the company but it wasn't something I organized they did it and then they would go and they would share their ideas and if they lik them they might use them if they didn't they wouldn't…
Something and when they showed the two lots of work because they did you know they could sort of divide them into these two ways approaching they discovered that professional artists said all the good ones were the…
Like we want to do things with our bodies. like we're evolved to do things with our bodies, you know, like we were like and so I think when you give yourself over to physical things, whether it's swimming or running or…
Kids don't call it art when they're doing stuff. You've got an upcoming book called Don't Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid, which you talk about things that you learn from your kids. You say being a studio…
Well the whole point about play is it's unpredictable you see in our culture now what people want more than anything else is Clarity everybody wants Clarity and Clarity quickly and one of the characteristics of creative…
Anything of signific impact one of the things that stood out for us in making ideas happen is this idea of organization in the creative process can you talk a little bit about that yeah that book was done really around…
They go that's all I need to do is cut out a giant iPhone and act behind it and show the different interactions so that's lovely that's constructive play and if we relate these to toys these are actually categories…
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Comes across it's clear that Tao is him to some degree you know there's just such an overlap between his personality the way he thinks about things and his music and also his you know design work that to me was a cool…
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It is its own standalone product as well, that's a pretty unique experience for Jenny and her team. So this idea of blurring boundaries or a collapsed talent stack, it doesn't just hold true for designers and…
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