Creative Acts for Curious People with Sarah Stein Greenberg

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Self-evidently, design and creativity are everywhere -- literally in every man-made thing we make, use, or celebrate. According to today’s guest, the act of design and creativity can benefit everyone, whether they see themselves as creative or not.

Sarah Stein Greenberg is Executive Director of the d.school at Stanford (aka the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design), which explores what great design can bring to global industries. She’s the author of the book Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create and Lead in Unconventional Ways.

Sarah cites the freedom of Lego construction, and her father’s carpentry, as twin inspirations for her own creativity. We talked about design as a language and creativity extending beyond the narrow realms of “art”.

Among the highlights:

How navigating uncertainty requires an open attitude to creativity.
The importance of “meta-learning.”
The value of recognizing one’s own bias.
Strategies for exploring serendipitous discovery.
The difference between divergent and convergent ideation.
How to solicit and use constructive criticism.
Struggle as a sign that productive learning is occurring.
How to overcome creative blockages.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. You know the show where I sit down with amazing humans unpack their brain with a goal of helping you live your dreams and career hobby and life. The guest today is Sarah Stein Greenberg. She's the executive director of the D school at Stanford.
0:25.7	If you're wondering what the D school is, that is the Hassel-Plattner Institute of Design,
0:30.6	very famous design school, where they bring in all kinds of people from numerous disciplines,
0:39.9	and they work to underpin what design does across industries on a global scale. She's got a new book that we talk about called Creative Acts for Curious People, How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional
0:44.3	Ways. It's out now. I highly recommend this conversation. If you're interested in
0:49.6	solving things like, how do I see things in a new way? How do I work well with others? What are some ways
0:56.2	that I can make sense of the, I've got these great insights, but how do I articulate them in my
1:01.4	project, whether that's a creative project, a business project, design project, or otherwise,
1:05.8	how to put your work out there and how to slow down and focus, something I know we all need.
1:12.3	So I'm going to get out of the way and again, invite you to enjoy this conversation with
1:16.4	yours truly and Sarah Stein Greenberg.
1:19.9	Take it from here.
1:22.5	This episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show is brought to you by Creative Live.
1:27.2	Look, after a successful photography career and directing and shooting all over the world with
1:32.5	the top brands, I started to feel a tug in a new direction. What if I could share everything
1:38.1	I learned across more than a decade and help other creators and entrepreneurs navigate their own journeys more effectively.
1:46.0	I kept pulling on this thread around lifelong learning and in 2009 I started Creative Live.
1:53.0	Creative Live is the world's largest and best platform for creative and entrepreneurial education.
1:58.0	Creators and entrepreneurs, hobbyists to full-time professionals,
2:02.4	have all leveled up with their careers and their lives
2:05.9	through taking courses on Creative Live.
2:08.6	And to be fair, they also make this show happen.
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