Doug Patton, Inventor and Author, Conquering the Chaos
Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5.0 • 45 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we chat with Doug Patton, an inventor, creativity expert, award-winning product designer and engineer, Founder & CEO of Patton Design, and Author of Conquering the Chaos of Creativity.
Doug is an esteemed industrial designer who was an inventor featured on ABCs American Inventor. He has created over 300 products in 20 international market categories and has received over 150 patents and international design awards. His clients include companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and Disney.
His mission to inspire others to live more authentic lives has led him to write Conquering the Chaos of Creativity, where he shares his unique, creative problem-solving process and inspires readers to take their own path by giving them the tools they need to creatively problem-solve in their own lives.
Doug sees chaos as a place of freedom. One which lacks rules and boundaries, therefore, giving individuals the free space to be as creative as they want. However, the mistakes people make when they are first trying out being creative is getting lost in the chaos. He cautions them to keep it simple and build on their ability to create,
What is his creative process like when it comes to working on a project? For him, he looks intrinsically and externally, he explores how he will remain excited and creative through the project and how to communicate these creative ideas to various stakeholders. This has resulted in him coming up with the language of creativity. This means he is able to breakdown his ideas into simple terms so as to get buy-in from everyone
In addition to the principles in his book, Doug tells us about the mediative problem-solving method. Where he uses meditation to help with the creative process. In his book, he gives his readers processes to free their minds from any constraints where they can safely go off and explore new ideas and new ways of thinking.
In conclusion, Doug believes that everyone is innately creative. and everyone has a great imagination. Additionally, he urges people to take the first step to expanding their creativity in any way they can. For experts and those at the top of their form, he tells them to expand on their creativity and never let it go.
You can connect with Doug on the following platforms
Book: Conquering the Chaos of Creativity
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| 0:00.0 | Happy to your most original thinking, organize your ideas, and create the opportunities to launch your creative work. |
| 0:14.0 | Unlocking your world of creativity, with best-selling author and brand innovator, Mark Stinson. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome back friends, and you ever find sometimes you need a alarm clock for your creativity, a wake-up call. |
| 0:28.0 | Well, you've come to the right place today because we're going to be talking with an industrial designer and an overall creative leader, a real wake-up call to all the people who say, |
| 0:39.0 | I wish there were a way to apply more of my creativity. My guest is Doug Patton. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, thank you, sir. I look forward to talking to you today. It's going to be a fun conversation about creativity. |
| 0:50.0 | That's one thing that is not in the news in our daily lives enough, creativity. It's something that could make everything better. |
| 0:57.0 | It's something that kind of isn't taught in schools and isn't something that everyone thinks they're creative, but everyone is innately creative. |
| 1:05.0 | It's just what environment they grew up in that allowed it to not atrophy. |
| 1:11.0 | There's so many opportunities for people to be more creative. |
| 1:14.0 | Well, I can't wait to explore that. |
| 1:16.0 | And Lister's Doug has been on ABC's American inventor television series. He's created himself more than 300 products to 20 international market categories. |
| 1:26.0 | And he published a great book last year called conquering the chaos of creativity. |
| 1:31.0 | Doug, I heard one reviewer called this a textbook, but fun. You've called it a map to creativity and there's alarm clock idea. |
| 1:39.0 | Why do we need to make sense of the chaos that we often think of creativity? |
| 1:44.0 | Those are some big questions. I wish I had like a day to discuss it, but chaos for me has always been a place of freedom. |
| 1:54.0 | It's a place where there are no boundaries, where there are no rules, where one can think of new ideas without linguistic boundaries, without cultural boundaries. |
| 2:07.0 | It is a place where where one's own construct can be erected. |
| 2:12.0 | I kind of look at it metaphorically, like if you're building a space station and outer space, there's no gravity. |
| 2:18.0 | You could make it whatever you want. It's this free space with no constraints. |
| 2:24.0 | The hard part is is that creativity with some people is frightening and that chaos comes with creativity. |
| 2:30.0 | It's a new realm. It's like exploring a new forest or a new area. |
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