Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hey, well today we have some fun in store

because our guest today, Esteban Gast,

is a comedian, as well as a creativity

scholar and he in this chat really brought a nice fusion of both comedy some

some jokes going back and forth as well as some real insight into the nature of

creativity in this interview and I know that I walked away with some great

principles and specific tactics I could use for generating more creative ideas and

I think that you will too. Specifically I think you're going to walk away with

one the number one factor that produces more creative ideas. Two how to take control of your emotional

state or mood in order to get a fresh perspective and more ideas.

And three, how to use specific tools such as the Lotus Blossom or

Root Cause analysis to channel your focus into different distinctive directions.

So the scoop here is Estevan Gaste,

is a comedian, teacher and entrepreneur living in Chicago, Illinois.

He teaches creativity at the University of Illinois

at Urbana Champaign, where he co-authored two books

on creativity and is currently

developing an online class on creativity. He travels around as a stand-up comedian

has been a speaker at TEDX, he speaks at colleges and high schools and make short films, so all sorts of creative goodness.

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