The Psychology of Visionaries with Justine Musk
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Justine Musk returns to the show to discuss creativity, emotional resonance and the psychology of visionary leaders like Elon Musk, Coco Chanel, Steve Jobs, David Bowie and many others.
Highlights
- The questions that we need to ask in an identity transition
- How crisis forces complacency to be thrown out the window
- Coming out of the shadows in our lives
- Learning to read your life like a mystery novel and searching for clues
- Finding the things in our lives that lead to creative renewal
- Creating emotional resonance with an audience
- Leveraging creativity to show the world who we are
- The thin line between madness and creativity
- What makes people like Elon Musk “tick”
- Developing a unwavering conviction and commitment
- Why bold points of view are part of extreme success
- Learning to steer yourself in the direction of your strengths
- Becoming motivated by process instead of product
- Having in faith in your own uniqueness as a person
- The role adversity plays in reaching extreme success
- Why we trust transparency and honesty to create trust
Minneapolis College of Art and Design – Post Baccalaureate Degrees in Graphic Design, Interactive Design and Online Marketing
Justine Musk writes about creativity, culture and self discovery and is the author of the thriller, Blood Angel.
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| 0:00.0 | I love what I've termed emotional resonance. I love that sense of resonating with other people. |
| 0:06.0 | Like when I write a blog post that I mean I can almost like feel it hitting with other people because it seems to be written from what I call |
| 0:14.8 | this sweet spot inside myself and the sweet spot is kind of like this place where who I am kind of merges |
| 0:22.0 | into who my audience is. |
| 0:24.6 | So I'm writing for both myself and other people. |
| 0:28.4 | And that seems to be where I do my best work |
| 0:31.7 | and I do my most relevant work. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative |
| 0:40.7 | podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
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