639: How to Get More Breakthrough Ideas with Susan Robertson

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🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Susan Robertson explains how to tap into your creative genius to generate breakthrough solutions.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why every professional benefits from more creativity

2) Why you should start with your craziest idea

3) What to do when others shoot down your ideas

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— ABOUT SUSAN —

Susan Robertson empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to more nimbly adapt to change, by transforming thinking from “why we can’t” to “how might we?” She is a creative thinking expert with over 20 years of experience coaching Fortune 500 companies.

As an instructor on applied creativity at Harvard, Susan brings a scientific foundation to enhancing human creativity. She combines the neuroscience of creative thinking with a big dose of fun, to make the learning and behavior change really stick.

• Susan’s website: SusanRobertson.co

• Susan’s article: “10 Rules for Brainstorming Success”

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• TED Talk: “Do schools kill creativity?” with Sir Ken Robinson

• Website: Stormz

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.2	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.2	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:16.1	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 639 with Susan Robertson.
0:23.7	Susan is sharing how to get more breakthrough ideas and why that matters no matter what
0:28.3	you're role.
0:29.3	One, why every professional benefits from more creativity.
0:33.0	Two, why you should start with your craziest ideas.
0:36.4	And three, what to do when other folks shut down your ideas.
0:40.4	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to apps that
0:42.9	we've referenced, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash F639.
0:47.8	And while you're at awesome at your job.com, check out the gold nuggets.
0:51.1	Summaries, these provide a short write up of the wisdom that Susan is sharing and a convenient
0:57.6	email to your inbox each day, the guest goes live as well as access to the whole vaults
1:02.5	of the 639 of these such summaries, that's the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com.
1:08.6	Now, here's Susan's story.
1:10.5	Susan Robertson empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to more nimbly adapt
1:14.3	to change by transforming thinking from why can't we to how might we choose a creative
1:18.5	thinking expert with over 20 years of experience coaching Fortune 500 companies.
1:22.9	As instructor on applied creativity at Harvard, Susan brings a scientific foundation to
1:27.5	enhancing human creativity.
	...

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