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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

You want to write the best novel, best screenplay, come up with the best business idea, side hustle ideas, you need creativity. Know this, creativity is a muscle, everyone has it, some are stronger than others, in order to grow your creativity muscle, you have to practice it! In this episode, I have on Josh Linkner, an American entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and author, to talk about his new book, Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results Hardcover. We talked about how much is creativity nurture versus nature, the techniques to cultivate your creativity, and also in order to improve yourself, you have to come up with ways to put your "Older Self" out of business! Listen to the episode and find out! Remember! Creativity is a muscle, you have to practice every day to have a stronger "Creativity Muscle"! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.4	Everybody always wants to write the great American novel or come up with their first billion
0:20.3	dollar business.
0:21.3	But really it's all about just like you brush your teeth every day, brush your creativity
0:25.8	every day and have incrementally small new creative ideas and it just to practice that
0:31.9	creativity muscle.
0:33.4	This next guest, Josh Linkner, he's built and sold a bunch of companies.
0:37.4	But now he has a new book out about how little breakthroughs lead to big breakthroughs.
0:42.6	And it's an interesting concept about creativity.
0:45.7	Josh and I talk about this and many other things and I hope you enjoy the episode.
1:04.3	Let me ask you a question first.
1:06.0	How much of creativity do you think is nurture versus nature?
1:10.0	When you see like the great creative geniuses?
1:12.2	Yeah, I think it's mostly nurture.
1:14.8	And the research sort of bears this out.
1:16.4	Harvard actually years ago did a study asking that very question.
1:19.6	They revealed that human creativity is like 70% learned behavior.
1:23.9	So I do think that certain people have a propensity obviously.
1:26.4	Maybe we're not going to be Mozart.
1:28.1	But by and large creativity is a learned skill.
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