The Four Fears Blocking You from Great Ideas

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🗓️ 15 November 2012

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Tom and David Kelley, leaders of IDEO and authors of the forthcoming HBR article "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence."

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0:32.8	I'm Allison Beard.
0:34.5	I'm here today with David Kelly,
0:36.0	founder of Stanford's Haso Plattner Institute of Design,
0:39.5	and the Design and Innovation Consultancy IDEO. and his brother, Tom Kelly, general manager of IDEO,
0:46.7	to talk about their December HBR article, Reclaim Your Creative Confidence.
0:51.2	Tom, David, thanks so much for joining me today. Awesome, thanks for having of of great creativity but there are four big fears that block us.
1:04.8	Tom what are those fears? You know on the journey to creative confidence there's these
1:09.7	things that get in the way these obstacles and one of them is fear of the messy unknown
1:14.3	you know if you stay at your desk all day everything comes prepackaged to you you know it's nice
1:19.9	and safe and comfortable and so there's this fear of getting out and making firsthand
1:25.9	observations and going to places where people don't know you and the data is
1:30.0	always messier. Reality is always messier than the prepackaged data that comes to your desk.
1:34.7	So the first one would be that fear of the messy unknown.
1:37.6	The second one is fear of being judged.
1:40.0	When we're little kids, you know, we just say what we we think we're willing to take risk but as you get
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