049: How To Boost Your Creativity & Work Effectively
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It's time to weed through our ideas and look at them with a fresh perspective. Learn how you can let go of old, stale ideas in order to pursue your new, tweaked ones. I'll share ways you can boost and foster your creativity, as well as tips for getting past your creative roadblocks. After listening to today's episode, you'll be able to embrace the whitespace and allow yourself to work effectively and creatively going forward.
What's In This Episode:
• Examples of how you may be living in idea debt, causing you to stand still instead of move forward.
• Actionable tips on ways you can increase and foster your creativity right now.
• What to do with your stale ideas so you allow yourself to work effectively towards what really matters most.
• Three ideas for how you can get past roadblocks and allow yourself to think freely and creatively.
• Why boredom is actually a good thing, and how to start embracing your whitespace.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquwell Press, and this is episode 49. |
| 0:28.4 | Today's episode is brought to you by Inkwell Press, a company focused on creating the |
| 0:33.6 | highest quality and most effective productivity tools you can find so you can start living |
| 0:38.9 | your beautiful, successful life today. Check out the complete line of productivity and planning products |
| 0:44.4 | at inkwellpress.com. I want to start by talking about creativity. When you hear about creativity, |
| 0:52.8 | you might think immediately of things like painting or |
| 0:56.8 | writing or crafting or one of the thousands of art forms out there. But creativity is more than just |
| 1:03.7 | art. It's an important part of just getting everyday stuff done. Even if you're a little more |
| 1:09.7 | left brain, you need creativity no matter what |
| 1:13.3 | industry you're in. It helps us think outside the box when it comes to problems and solutions, |
| 1:19.6 | and it allows us to take our ideas to greater heights and push the boundaries of what we |
| 1:25.5 | currently know. I think that Albert Einstein is a great example of who we think of as being completely left-brained. |
| 1:32.7 | I mean, he was a physicist and a mathematician. |
| 1:36.3 | You might not immediately lump him into the category of creatives, but he was. |
| 1:41.9 | His ideas on physics completely changed the thinking in science. It turned it on its head. |
| 1:49.0 | He came up with theories that fought against what was considered really basic scientific knowledge of the time, |
| 1:56.5 | and he actively sought out ways to think differently. And that is the basis for creative thought. |
| 2:03.5 | Henry Ford is another creative thinker. He revolutionized the way that factories work. |
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