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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Listener Favorites: Jeremey Utley | How Having Lots of Ideas Leads to Creative Breakthroughs

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

If you want to be more innovative, you need to start by changing the way you think about creativity. Good ideas aren't the result of pure wisdom, but rather the practice of innovation. Learn how to tap into surprising and valuable ideas on demand and fill the creative pipeline with breakthrough ideas.

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0:00.0

As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting

0:04.6

some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical

0:09.4

strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve

0:14.4

personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get

0:18.5

recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free life of purpose ebook.

0:24.7

What you have to do is go to unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.

0:28.1

Again, that's unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.

0:32.1

As I'm falling asleep, I get a solution to a problem I've been working on at Stanford.

0:42.1

And the solution comes to me and immediately my first thought is, I'll remember that in the morning.

0:44.5

But then I thought, no, no, I should write it down.

0:47.2

I should do my, you know, I don't want to be a hypocrite.

0:50.0

I want to keep telling people that they need to do this.

0:55.3

And I kind of wrestled with myself, honestly, because for, you know, five minutes I'm kind of, you know,

0:58.7

chanting the idea to myself, seeing if I can remember it so I don't forget it, right?

1:00.6

Finally, I roll over.

1:01.3

I'm like, forget it.

1:01.8

It's not worth it. I'm just going to write this thing down.

1:02.8

So I write it down, kind of disrupt my sleep, right?

1:05.1

I was comfortable. situated, you know, and messed all that up, wrote it down, and then I go to sleep, you know,

1:13.5

15, 20 minutes later.

1:14.9

Well, when I woke up in the morning, what's amazing is the idea was there.

1:19.9

The first thing that I thought was this idea.

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