Hack Your Creativity
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Each and every moment is an opportunity to create. It might be as simple as cooking a meal, trying a new exercise or co-creating a conversation, but creativity on a small scale has a tremendous ripple effect in other areas of life. It's a muscle with infinite potential.
Sounds crazy, right?
Creativity and art are often conflated. While they're certainly related, they are not the same thing. Simply put, creativity is connecting two unlikely or unrelated things to produce something new and ideally, useful.
On today's episode I sit down with Chris Hutchins on All the Hacks Podcast, to explore the creative hacks that supercharged my personal and professional life for the past 2 decades. Whether your goals are hobby-related or you are on the path to becoming a professional creator, this episode has something for you.
Some highlights from our conversation:
- Intro + my background [00:30]
- My personal creative journey [02:18]
- Are children more creative than adults? [06:55]
- The simple definition of creativity. [10:22]
- How to train your creative muscles no matter what you’re doing. [13:31]
- 4 simple steps to create anything successfully. [17:56]
- Why mastering something teaches you how to master anything. [20:54]
- How people have applied lessons from Chase’s book in their lives. [25:00]
- How to fuel creativity with play and experimentation. [26:59]
- Why do creativity and autonomy make you happier? [29:58]
- The impact travel (even local travel) has on your creativity. [31:42]
- How much routine should your morning routine have? [39:29]
- Why you should expose yourself to cold water daily even if it is uncomfortable (cold water therapy). [41:19]
- Moving from being stuck to a zone of flow (the power of play and discipline). [42:57]
Enjoy!
Have a question?
Text me 1-206-309-5177
Tweet me @chasejarvis
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Having an element of your routine being to break your routine, to me, that is the life hack that is most unrecognized, unrealized, and underplanned for. |
| 0:18.0 | I live the things that I'm talking about here, like driving home a different way or |
| 0:22.0 | listening to some different music or trying to learn new things from friends who are |
| 0:26.4 | experts in the world of fill in the blank if I have some benign or new found curiosity to it. |
| 0:33.3 | So I think that's the big takeaway is what can you do to provide space in your routine |
| 0:38.6 | to do things differently. |
| 0:40.4 | That was a quick clip from the All the Hacks podcast hosted by my dear buddy, Chris Hutchins. |
| 0:47.4 | If you're not familiar with that show, Learn All the Hacks is a show about optimizing |
| 0:51.5 | and upgrading every aspect of your life while spending less and saving |
| 0:56.0 | more. Now, again, Chris is a life hacker. He saved millions of dollars and thus so by breaking |
| 1:02.9 | down all sorts of different aspects of life and looking at how to maximize happiness |
| 1:08.2 | at the lowest cost. I think it's an incredible show. Chris is a dear friend. |
| 1:13.1 | And this is a recording of me on Chris's show. We thought we'd syndicated here. I don't know if |
| 1:19.7 | I haven't done very many long form podcast shows since maybe the book came out a couple of years |
| 1:25.9 | ago. So it was a real treat to be on Chris's show to talk about |
| 1:29.8 | creativity. Obviously, something I'm very, very passionate about. And Chris's show is, you know, I get |
| 1:36.3 | asked to be on lots of shows and I have to make very judicious decisions. And Chris is a smart |
| 1:40.9 | guy. I met him originally through Google Ventures, an investor in an early investor in Creative Live. He has an incredible breadth of experience. He's a wonderful host. A couple highlights from the show. We actually talk about my background growing up. I mean, little kid going back to like first and second grade, how I didn't actually identify as a creator as soon as my second grade teacher told me that I was better at sports. |
| 2:06.7 | I should give up on art. |
| 2:08.3 | We talk about training, creative muscles, why creativity and autonomy make us happier and feel more fulfilled. |
| 2:15.9 | We talked about the benefits of travel, even local or |
| 2:19.3 | regional travel, how that can help you, how much routine can shape our lives for the positive |
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