Designing your system for creativity: Inputs

Agenda:

1. A road map for imperfect creativity
2. Finding the time
3. How to think about ideas
4. Building an idea farm: collecting
5. Building an idea farm: planting

Guest speakers:

• Bec Evans – “Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit that Lasts” — myths of creative work influence how we work and make — we underestimate our ability to make, how much we can make
• Lisa Marchiano — making a little leads to more making — e.g. writing 300 words for the day helps spark the next day’s 300 words

Tools he uses:

• Craft
• Matter

Organizing approach:

“You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps.”
— Richard Feynman

Overnight challenge:

Choose one to do before second half of talk tomorrow:

1. begin a 30-day challenge
2. cross a creative bridge — make a significant transition — something that closes some options
3. let go of a project or idea

Day 2:

Designing your system for creativity: Outputs