274. How To Cultivate Creativity to Elevate Everything You Do with Jeremy Utley #WellnessWednesdays

Be Well by Kelly Leveque

Kelly Leveque

Education, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Flexing your creativity muscle plays a huge role in wellness that is often overlooked. If you don’t consider yourself a “creative” person, you might be surprised by what today’s guest, innovation expert and Stanford professor Jeremy Utley, has to say about the discipline of imagination and how it can be used to affect your life and the world in a positive way.

Jeremy Utley is one of the world's leading experts in innovation. Over the last 12 years, he served as the Director of Education at Stanford's renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the D School), where his courses have been experienced by nearly a million students worldwide.

Jeremy advises corporate leaders on how to embed the methods and mindsets of design into their organization and works with professionals to cultivate a robust personal creative practice. As the co-host of Stanford's Masters of Creativity, he shines the spotlight on creative practice across disciplinary boundaries.

On top of blogging and podcasting, he's also the general partner at Freespin Capital and co-author of IdeaFlow, which offers a proven strategy for coming up with great ideas by yourself and with your team.

In this conversation, Jeremy shares how to find inspiration, how to know if an idea is “good” through scrappy experimentation, lessons for entrepreneurs from our personal experiences, and how practicing the idea quota can make magic happen.

If you ever shut down your creative thinking or you thought you didn't have it within you, Jeremy's here to show you otherwise.

We also cover…

(02:00) Why Creativity Is Wellness & How To Open Your Mind to Creative Possibilities

(28:00) Tips for Building the Discipline of Inspiration

(53:00) Why Taking Action Is Key for Creative Problem Solving

(01:19:00) One Simple Thing To Do To Get Started With Being Creative

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'll tell you what when you first invited me I thought what do I have to do on a wellness
0:03.8	podcast but the more I've thought about it the more I realize no it's this is
0:07.0	integral to wellness creativity should be measured along with all the other
0:10.7	you know our physical health our mental health our emotional well-being
0:14.1	creativity is fundamentally about having a sense of agency and the the belief that one can
0:19.6	affect the world's leading
0:25.0	leading experts in innovation and for over the last 12 years he's served as
0:32.0	the director of education at
0:33.6	Stanford's renowned Haso Plaplatner Institute of Design, aka the D School,
0:38.8	where his courses were experienced by nearly a million students of innovation worldwide.
0:44.0	He advises corporate leaders on how to embed the methods and mindsets
0:48.0	of design thinking into their organization
0:50.0	and works with professionals to cultivate a robust personal creative practice.
0:56.0	As the co-host of Stanford's Masters of Creativity, he shines the spotlight on exemplars and
1:02.0	creative practice across disciplinary boundaries.
1:05.2	On top of blogging and podcasting, he's also the general partner at FreeSpin Capital and the
1:09.4	co-author of Idea Flow, which offers a proven strategy for coming up with great ideas by yourself and with your team.
1:16.0	I loved his book idea flow and feel like creativity is wellness and you're going to learn why in today's episode.
1:25.0	All right, Jeremy, welcome back to the show, round two, my first and only audio failure and the first one was so good last year but you are such a
1:36.5	doll and willing to come back on what an embarrassment for me but what a benefit
1:42.0	for me really because I'm getting your knowledge twice.
1:44.4	Totally, you get two for one.
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