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Creativity and the human skill AI can't replicate (Day 3) | Open to Work

Squiggly Careers

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Careers, Business, Management

4.9 โ€ข 838 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 3 June 2026

โฑ๏ธ 11 minutes

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Summary

Creativity isn't a talent some people have and others don't, it's a skill. In day three of this special five-part series, Helen and Aneesh Rahman explore the third C, creativity, and why it's becoming one of the highest-value human skills in an age when AI can generate generic content at scale. From Pixar's science of storytelling to the neuroscience of flow, this is a conversation that will change how you think about your own creativity, and how to bring more of it to your team. ๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Learn โ€“ Why AI making generic creative content widely available actually raises the premium on human creativity โ€“ What the neuroscience of flow tells us about when we're at our creative best (and what gets in the way) โ€“ Why creativity is a team sport, and what that means for how you design your working week โ€“ A simple question to ask in your team: when are you at your creative best and what contributes to it? โ€“ One practical thing anyone can do right now to build their creative muscle, even if they don't feel creative at all ๐Ÿ“š Resources Mentioned Open to Work: Aneesh Rahman and Ryan Roslansky Creativity Inc.: Ed Catmull Peak: Anders Ericsson For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email: helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Need some more squiggly career support? 1. Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ 2. Sign up for our Skills Sprints: https://www.amazingif.com/squigglysprints/ 3. Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Newsletter, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools: https://bit.ly/squigglynewsletter_pod 4. Order our new book Learn Like a Lobster: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Anish, welcome to the Squidley Crows Podcast.

0:02.0

We're on day three of our series on Open to Work.

0:05.0

So so far, let's do a recap.

0:06.0

We've covered curiosity.

0:08.0

We've covered courage.

0:10.0

And today we are going to focus on the skill of creativity.

0:13.0

And I feel like are people are already bought into this.

0:16.0

People love creativity.

0:17.0

So why does this make the, you know,

0:20.0

there are five capabilities that are going to help people stay ahead in the age of AI.

0:24.6

Tell us a bit more about creativity.

0:25.6

Yeah, there are few reasons I love creativity. I love all the five Cs, but this one in particular for a few reasons.

0:32.6

First, creativity is to me the imagination of what's never been.

0:38.3

And as we think about AI and a lot of the fear of AI and its ability to do things like write really quickly or create videos really quickly,

0:47.3

to do a lot of the technical analytic tasks, creativity has been under duress.

0:52.3

You look to the creative professionals who are justifiably really afraid of how this tool

0:57.0

is going to replace them.

0:59.0

But AI is going to just make generically creative content widely, universally available.

1:05.0

And the human bit of creativity then becomes an even higher premium.

1:09.0

But at the end of the day, like innovation and

1:11.8

entrepreneurialism, which is our best articulation of what work becomes for us all, is a creative

1:17.4

endeavor. I mean, it is the ability to imagine something that's never been at a small level,

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