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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 31 - How To Instantly Improve Your Creativity: Bruce Daisley

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

Creativity is often labelled a skill which only certain people are born with. A gift for only those lucky enough to have it. This statement is NOT correct. We are all creative and we can all train this skill.

Bruce Daisley (Ex VP of Twitter) explains beautifully how we can almost instantaneously engage the creative parts of our brains and allow ideas to flow. Here’s how to instantly improve your creativity.

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Creativity. Something you've talked about at length and for me, I've always believed

0:10.4

that I'm at least creative in the office. I've always thought I'm more creative in the

0:13.3

gym and in the shower than I am when I'm sat in a boardroom with a bunch of people.

0:17.8

And I know this is something you've spoken about. So I wanted to get your take on where

0:20.8

we're most creative, what kills and causes creativity.

0:23.6

Let me tell you what I've discovered. Neuroscientism is really intriguing. The most compelling

0:29.8

thing about neuroscientism is when you look into it. Neuroscientists used to work on

0:34.7

experimenting on animals. I'm not keen on that. I was in a protest group about animal

0:42.2

experimentation when I was younger. And they used to look at brain injuries. So that used

0:46.1

to be the main way that neuroscience worked. And it's only the last 20 years that brain

0:50.1

scans have had any degree of sophistication. But what they've discovered in the time that

0:54.6

they've had brain scannets is some of the things that they presumed about the way our brain

0:58.8

works aren't necessarily right. So let me give you one example. But they used to put people

1:03.3

in these brand new brain scannets and they would watch what the brains did. They'd give

1:08.2

them a puzzle, they'd give them a rubik's cube. Their brains would light up in these

1:11.7

sort of different places. And then they'd notice what happened when people stopped playing

1:16.8

on the puzzle. And their brains would light up in sort of loads of places as well. And

1:22.3

so it was baffling what's going on right now. They'd say to these people, they'd say,

1:26.4

oh right, sorry, I was a million miles away. I was day dreaming. So okay, that's interesting.

1:31.6

Your brain's lighting up when you're not thinking about something, when you sort of switched

1:35.7

off. And so the way that neuroscientists categorize this broadly, they say these three systems

1:41.2

of cognition. First one is like when you're doing that rubik's cube or when you're typing

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